Alignment based damage reduction

[Trainz]

Does it feel weird to you that the only creatures that can bypass an angel's DR are their very enemies ?

Or that some demons DR, which would have the most to worry about angels, being that they're eternal foes, can only be bypassed by those very foes ?

I mean, you can send another demon, a slaad, a tiger, a dinosaur, or an ogre fight those demons, and their DR works juuust fine, but not against their primal foes ?

What kind of ability evolution is that ?

Darwin would NOT agree with this. No sir.

 

[LGodamus]

dont think of it as evolution...they are outsiders...


think of it as the law of opposites...their very energies that compose them are anti thetical to one another..IE: demons are fire ,angels are water

 

[AuraSeer]

I like to think of it as doing extra damage, rather than as bypassing a resistance.

Fiends are damn tough, and almost impossible to kill. Normal weapons bounce off their skin like spitballs off tank armor. But holy energy is antithetical to their nature. The power of Good disrupts the fiend's very substance, like matter reacting to antimatter, which means that a celestial's weapon inflicts far more damaging wounds than an ordinary one.

 

[Trainz]

dont think of it as evolution...they are outsiders...


think of it as the law of opposites...their very energies that compose them are anti thetical to one another..IE: demons are fire ,angels are water

Being from Nessus, you would know those things.

Thanks for the info !


/slooowly draws holy longsword

 

[LGodamus]

I live to serve






for a price

 

[UltimaGabe]

Does it feel weird to you that the only creatures that can bypass an angel's DR are their very enemies ?

When 3.5 came out, I had that very same opinion- it seemed backwards to me. I know that if I were a Paladin, I'd want DR that only other Paladins would be able to overcome, rather than something my worst enemy (the person I'll be fighting the most) could overcome.

But, then someone mentioned something that sorta made it make sense (enough to make me stop worrying about it, anyway)- if you look in religious stories, it is said that Demons can only be hurt by things blessed by God. And if you think of it from an in-game perspective, not from an "My character has Damage Reduction of 5/good because he's got celestial armor", it makes sense. If your worst enemy somehow made itself immune to most types of weapons, you'd use the only type of weapon that could hurt it. In the same way, it uses the only type of weapon that could hurt you. Don't think of it as /good or /evil, just think of it as a certain type of weakness that the good or evil sides have managed to find to bypass their resistances.