Alternate DR rules- no Golf bags!
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Cheiromancer
Adventurer
It's reminding them that they have to turn off the energy enhancements that's the problem!
Thank you
I have been playing D&D 3.0e sense its appearance, presently I have a Ranger/Ftr/Deepwood sniper thats at 9th lvl with a +1 Long sword, just recently he got a +1 bow. The Cleric ups 50 of his arrows with GMW, for that I am thankful as he has fought a few villians/critters that he could not harm (DR was higher then his max none crit damage). Personally I am thankful for the DR reduction and possible optional rules for defeating DR.
Another character I have- a 10th lvl wiz/Arcane Order carried a long sword for years because it was his only magic weapon. He had no prof with such a weapon, thou he used it less then a half dozen times it saved the party more then once.
I would like to see and hear more on such possible house rules or changes to the exsisting system.
I have been playing D&D 3.0e sense its appearance, presently I have a Ranger/Ftr/Deepwood sniper thats at 9th lvl with a +1 Long sword, just recently he got a +1 bow. The Cleric ups 50 of his arrows with GMW, for that I am thankful as he has fought a few villians/critters that he could not harm (DR was higher then his max none crit damage). Personally I am thankful for the DR reduction and possible optional rules for defeating DR.
Another character I have- a 10th lvl wiz/Arcane Order carried a long sword for years because it was his only magic weapon. He had no prof with such a weapon, thou he used it less then a half dozen times it saved the party more then once.
I would like to see and hear more on such possible house rules or changes to the exsisting system.
Cheiromancer
Adventurer
I'm thinking now that a simple workable rule would be that a high plus on a weapon overcomes 5 points of a particular DR.
+2: silver or cold iron
+3: adamantine
+4: alignment
+5: anything else
If the DR is the "or" type, a weapon could reduce the DR twice. For example, a +4 longsword would ignore DR 10/silver or good.
A greater magic weapon wouldn't bypass all the DR in the book, but it would help a lot. And I think there would be some incentive to purchase a higher base plus on a weapon.
+2: silver or cold iron
+3: adamantine
+4: alignment
+5: anything else
If the DR is the "or" type, a weapon could reduce the DR twice. For example, a +4 longsword would ignore DR 10/silver or good.
A greater magic weapon wouldn't bypass all the DR in the book, but it would help a lot. And I think there would be some incentive to purchase a higher base plus on a weapon.
Allanon
Explorer
Wow, talk about thread resurrection...
But seriously, after much playing I've come to the simple conclusion that the new DR rules are pretty streamlined as is. Even in a Planescape campaign where most everything has some kind of DR it hasn't led to golfbagging (
) of any kind.
The one exception was when I had them face a host of were-beasts, suddenly everyone had something silver to stab/smash/slash the buggers with.
But seriously, after much playing I've come to the simple conclusion that the new DR rules are pretty streamlined as is. Even in a Planescape campaign where most everything has some kind of DR it hasn't led to golfbagging (
) of any kind.The one exception was when I had them face a host of were-beasts, suddenly everyone had something silver to stab/smash/slash the buggers with.
the Jester
Legend
babomb said:
I recently discussed this very thing with my players and we all agreed that it sounded cool- there's gotta be some reason why people get +2 swords instead of +1 shock swords!
Ferret
Explorer
rkanodia said:
Do you mean that when you have Silver but not magic (or in the reverse) you only have to lose 5 points of damage? Thats not what you say but thats the only way that it works withoout hurting my head. How does the fact that you have both silver and magic reduce the DR that you don't even have to face, because you can bypass it with silver and magic.
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