Artoomis said:
In any case, at the beginning of the document I clearly label "Best Advice" for what it is:
Artoomis said:
As far as being objective, I am quoting rules, the Sage's (and others') opinion and arguments both supporting and undercutting my position. That's pretty darn objective.
Artoomis said:
Do you have any input on anything in the list? Or anything else that should be added.
"For purposes of harming other creatures with damage reduction, a creature’s natural weapons count as weapons of the type that can ignore its own innate damage reduction. The amount of damage reduction is irrelevant."
"Usually, a certain type of weapon-usually a magic weapon-can overcome this reduction. This information is separated from the damage reduction number by a slash. If a dash follows the slash then the damage reduction is effective against any attack that does not ignore damage reduction."
So I suggest for Argument Against: A barbarian's natural attacks count as weapons of the type that overcome its own DR and the barbarian's DR is overcome only by attacks that ignore damage reduction, therefore a barbarian's natural attacks should count as ignoring damage reduction.
ruleslawyer said:Hey Artoomis:
Any chance of my question (posted on your previous thread) regarding barbarian DR getting in there? The question was whether barbarian DR ignores energy attacks, as stated in the PHB Glossary, or whether it is subject to the normal rule for energy attacks bypassing DR as suggested in the DMG.
Archer:Archer said:PHB 277, middle of left column
Damage reduction: A special defense ... but not from energy attacks... Barbarians have damage reduction as a class feature, but theirs is a special type that negates a set amount of damage from any source.