D&D 5E Armor as Damage Reduction

[LongInTheTooth]

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We are currently (to keep it simple) thinking about implementing DR for armor on critical hits only.

Light = 1 DR
Medium = 2 DR
Heavy = 4 DR
Shields can be used to gain 2 DR, but are sundered if used so.

I like this idea of acting on crits. Maybe you could base it on armour that covers more body parts, particularly the head rather than just l\m\h. This adds a bit of variety to the armour across the groupings.

 

[trs31]

Sorry if this has been mentioned already (I've skimmed through all the posts but its late) has anyone experience of Monte Cook's Iron Hero's? In that Damage reduction is a dice rather than a flat number e.g. platemail may give d12 damage reduction. This avoids the wearer being completely immune to weak attacks because they can still have a bad roll and end up just reducing the blow by 1 point of damage.

This seemed like a good solution to me but I confess I never got to play with that rule so don't know how it worked in practice.

 

[trs31]

Double post