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It should, right?
It protects from damage but doers not give addition to saving throws or protect you from ability drain.

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Re: Negative Energy Protection does not help with negative traps
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2018, 05:53:04 PM »
It's the same for all types of traps and saving throws. You save vs "traps", not the damage type itself. There's nothing we can do about that specifically.

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Re: Negative Energy Protection does not help with negative traps
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2018, 06:24:55 PM »
That's a bit odd actually. While it might not give you extra saves, I know negative energy protection does protect against level drain from deadly negative traps. I use it in ghastria a lot. It should give you immunity to Ability drain as well. I'll do some testing.

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Re: Negative Energy Protection does not help with negative traps
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2018, 07:14:50 PM »
That's a bit odd actually. While it might not give you extra saves, I know negative energy protection does protect against level drain from deadly negative traps. I use it in ghastria a lot. It should give you immunity to Ability drain as well. I'll do some testing.

It protects from the effect but has no impact on the save. Aa sotbii pointed out it will reduce the damage in half (effect) but won’t affect the saving throw.

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Re: Negative Energy Protection does not help with negative traps
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2018, 08:42:04 AM »
The negative traps in Tergs drained my STR, which I should have been protected against. At least in regular NWN.
Is it meant to work differently in Ravenloft?

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Re: Negative Energy Protection does not help with negative traps
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2018, 09:22:56 PM »
The negative traps in Tergs drained my STR, which I should have been protected against. At least in regular NWN.
Is it meant to work differently in Ravenloft?

The spell works differently on POTM, as indicated in the in-game description and the wiki:

https://nwnravenloft.wikia.com/wiki/Negative_Energy_Protection