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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 2357515" data-attributes="member: 22424">Allow me to clarify: my intention was not to require an atrefact to overcome the damage reduction (which would, as you say, be pretty cheesy). Rather, the DR could be overcome by a specific but otherwise normal (magic) weapon. So, to reiterate my example, the demon-lord could only be harmed by the sword of the paladin who gave his life to banish said demon millennia ago. However, against any other creatures, this weapon is 'just' a +2 holy longsword, or whatever.The idea was swiped whole-cloth from Buffy, where to fight the demon Akathla (no idea how you spell this) at the end of the 2nd season, she is given a specific (but otherwise normal) sword that has been blessed by the knight who previously defeated said demon.My thinking (although I never implemented this) was that the campaign would feature tales of the fall of this demon-lord in the past, and rumours of his return. At some point, the PCs would learn the legend that he could only be harmed by that specific weapon, and decide to quest to find it, thus to defeat the demon-lord.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 2357515, member: 22424"] Allow me to clarify: my intention was not to require an atrefact to overcome the damage reduction (which would, as you say, be pretty cheesy). Rather, the DR could be overcome by a [I]specific[/I] but otherwise normal (magic) weapon. So, to reiterate my example, the demon-lord could only be harmed by the sword of the paladin who gave his life to banish said demon millennia ago. However, against any other creatures, this weapon is 'just' a +2 holy longsword, or whatever. The idea was swiped whole-cloth from Buffy, where to fight the demon Akathla (no idea how you spell this) at the end of the 2nd season, she is given a specific (but otherwise normal) sword that has been blessed by the knight who previously defeated said demon. My thinking (although I never implemented this) was that the campaign would feature tales of the fall of this demon-lord in the past, and rumours of his return. At some point, the PCs would learn the legend that he could only be harmed by that specific weapon, and decide to quest to find it, thus to defeat the demon-lord. [/QUOTE]

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