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<blockquote data-quote="Magesmiley" data-source="post: 2608288" data-attributes="member: 26292">Actually, I have some debate in my mind on that issue still. The specific rule on stacking damage reduction from the SRD reads:&quot;If a creature has damage reduction from more than one source, the two forms of damage reduction do not stack. Instead, the creature gets the benefit of the best damage reduction in a given situation. &quot;The reference isn't 100% clear whether &quot;source&quot; refers to where you got the damage reduction (armor, class abilty, etc.) from or what penetrates the damage reduction (silver, magic, cold iron, etc.). You could interpret this two ways:A. Damage reduction from different forms of damage don't stack. You can't stack 5/silver and 10/magic together - you only get the best one which applies. However with this interpretation, 5/magic and 10/magic could stack together to end up with 15/magic.B. Damage reduction doesn't stack. Period.I don't recall having seen a reference yet which rules out A. as a valid interpretation, which is how I, and several others I know of, play it. Other people use interpretation B. The rule could be written a bit mroe clearly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Magesmiley, post: 2608288, member: 26292"] Actually, I have some debate in my mind on that issue still. The specific rule on stacking damage reduction from the SRD reads: "If a creature has damage reduction from more than one source, the two forms of damage reduction do not stack. Instead, the creature gets the benefit of the best damage reduction in a given situation. " The reference isn't 100% clear whether "source" refers to where you got the damage reduction (armor, class abilty, etc.) from or what penetrates the damage reduction (silver, magic, cold iron, etc.). You could interpret this two ways: A. Damage reduction from different forms of damage don't stack. You can't stack 5/silver and 10/magic together - you only get the best one which applies. However with this interpretation, 5/magic and 10/magic could stack together to end up with 15/magic. B. Damage reduction doesn't stack. Period. I don't recall having seen a reference yet which rules out A. as a valid interpretation, which is how I, and several others I know of, play it. Other people use interpretation B. The rule could be written a bit mroe clearly. [/QUOTE]

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