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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9491413" data-attributes="member: 93670">Damage Threshhold was not an improvement in ways that justify it replacing DR.  There might be scenarios where it could be a useful substitute tool in the GM's toolbox but DR had multiple workarounds for players when it came up & those multiple workarounds were <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Deal a damage type that was not impacted by the DR<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Easy Maybe Bob's +5 holy avenger is bad with this creature because it deals slashing & isn't doing chaotic or fire damage.  Coincidentally maybe his +2 mace  works similarly as Alice's less optimized PC who is still using her best gear. </li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use a weapon made from a particular material  or specially enchanted to bypass the DR<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Ruhroh guys, we should use weapons made from cold iron/byshek/flametouched iron/silver/etc against this instead of our good gear.  We are still going to be ahead on damage but the monsters don't need to be statted to be such a slog & some things.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Go for broke and hit it fewer times with more damaging attack(s) so the DR has fewer chances to chip away at damage & it eats a smaller fraction<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Higher chance of missing or getting saved against on that all or nothing attack but Dave can expect a bigger payoff afterwards if he gets lucky</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Play the odds & do lots of attacks that (hopefully) all do more than the DR but add up to a number that makes it worthwhile<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Better odds to regularly do something & it's going to be hard to miss or get saved against on all of your attacks but that DR is going to add up & both of those are a good thing for someone's build</li> </ul></li> </ul>Unfortunately 50% resistance is the worst of all things.  All of the strengths of each method still exist, but only some of them maintain their weaknesses (ie fewer bigger hits is still a bigger chance of doing nothing while many smaller hits still has better odds of regularly being successful but both take an identical hit to damage & there is no cumulative counterbalance to the fewer/many individual strikes).Having those different methods meant that the GM could juggle things with monsters & treasure as needed for the good of their table based on the individual PC builds.  That could even be extended to mitigate the impact of "oops giving that out was a mistake I didn't anticipate" treasure often enough to allow the other players to not feel overshadowed  while still infrequent enough to allow the player with that mistake feel good about having it.The 3.5 golf bag of weapons criticism  absolutely lost any shred of merit when wotc started cracking jokes about it while hyping the new  stuff like this:[MEDIA=twitter]1806009535456301287[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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