Could anyone give me the details on the DR system for armor?

[SouthernPride]

Does it totaly throw out AC or does it work with AC. If theres a link to this could someone throw it to me. Thanks

 

[Wolf72]

not sure where it is ...

Trentonjoe and I came up with a very simple DR for heavy armor (as in it gets DR 1 ... not much, but kinda cool ... think of all the poison attacks that do only 1d3 dmg ... and the DM rolls a 1, no poison! ... or a poisoned shuriken or mouth darts (OA))

 

[Plane Sailing]

The WotC official system is in the revised Star Wars d20 rulebook. Basically it depends on using their wound + vitality system, and it gives DR against wound damage only... so it is great if you take a critical hit, but doesn't otherwise help the heroes much unless they run out of vitality.

I use a variant wounds and vitality system in D&D, with armour as DR rules which you can find on my web site here

http://www.starguild.freeserve.co.uk/frp/3ednd_combat.htm

Cheers

 

[SouthernPride]

You have alot of good stuff on there, I'm gonna get our Ravenloft DM to look at it. Thx

 

[Jeph]

The way I play, characters have a ery limited amount of HP (base HP = Con score, three HP progressions. Good, gain 1 HP every level. Bad, gain HP like the Cleric's base attack. Poor, gain HP like the Wizard's base attack).

With this system, every hit counts, so I give all characters a Base Defense bonus, and have armor provide DR *instead of* AC.

They *really* need that DR when they get shot with blaster rifles. without it, they'd be dropping like flies.

-Jeph