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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 987671" data-attributes="member: 907">That was one of the first changes revealed about 3.5e, and one of the most heavily debated. In 3.5e, DR can be linked to the following things:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Damage type, like the skeleton's DR 5/blunt.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Magic or Epic weapons. Note that a +1 weapon will penetrate as well as a +5 weapon. I don't know if "epic" is defined as a +6 or better weapon or just a weapon with epic qualities.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alignment. Creatures with alignment subtypes are considered to have those subtypes on their natural and wielded weapons.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Materials. The core rules only use cold iron, silver, and adamantine, and recommend against adding more to the list (though I could see one or two more as a world-specific thing).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">None. This is for things like the Barbarian. It will be mighty rare on monsters. [/list=1] The rules also allow for combining these, both with "and" and "or" combinations. For example, a lemure will probably have "DR 5/silver or good" while a pit fiend will have "DR 15/silver good". The first means that you need a weapon that's either silver or good, wheras the latter means it has to be both silver and good. As you can see from my example, DR numbers are going down. The pit fiend had DR 25/+2 in 3.0, but will have 15/silver good in 3.5e.</li> </ol></blockquote>