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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 3457977" data-attributes="member: 3424">I think this deserves its own thread so that it can be discussed more fully, but I'll give my answer here (and if you start another thread, I'll post it there, too).I think high-level D&D is balanced on the assumption that spellcasters will encounter opponents with significant SR fairly often (as many as 50% of encounters). What I would like to do is to remove SR as a balancing factor at high levels. This could be done in a number of ways - tinkering with the spells, metamagic feats, spellcasters, etc.I would like to retain the concept of SR, but have it come up less often. This could be done by restricting the number of creatures that have SR, or by making SR a template, a monster feat or an alternate special ability (reducing AC or DR for creatures that have it, or replacing some other defence). This has the added benefit of being able to tailor the monsters better to the PCs. A party that is mostly composed of fighting types is going to largely ignore SR anyway, so a creature ought to have better meaningful defences to be worth its CR.Essentially, I want SR to be an occasional speed bump that comes up once in a while to make encounters interesting for the spellcasters. I don't want it to come up too often or reduce the spellcasters' effectiveness too much.</blockquote>