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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kerrick" data-source="post: 4997406" data-attributes="member: 4722">How can you wear it down with "small blows" if only a strike that exceeds its hit points will destroy it?Impenetrable barrier = absolute. Same as save or die, or immunities; it's a game-breaker. OTOH, TS's idea of using 5 or 10 hp/level could be a better fix.Exactly.I (and I think TS, too) was going with the precedent set for Bigby's Interposing Hand. Course, there's nothing wrong with changing that one to fit a new rule, either. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I was thinking about that while I wrote the post; I was a little rushed for time, so I just tossed it out. DR is effectively just added hit points, but it's not all that hard to subtract a few points from whatever damage is dealt. Say you've got a wall with 50 hp and DR 5/-. That DR applies against every single attack directed against it. Compare this to a wall with 100 hp. A fighter with a greatsword and PA hacking on it, dealing (let's say) 15 points per hit, three times per round, will drop the 100-point wall in a round and a half. The 50-point wall with DR will last for over three rounds. Since the wall only lasts for 1 round/level anyway, this doesn't change much - it just makes it into a temporary barrier that someone could hack through, given some time and effort. That being said, I like the idea of it having DR 10/cold iron or adamantine instead, along with, say 10 hp/level. Then the fighter trying to hack his way through a wall cast by a L15 mage (assuming he's using a standard steel weapon) would take 10 rounds to get through it - almost as long as the wall would last anyway, but it still gives the fighter a fighting chance (no pun intended).Technically, "cold iron" is just an archaic term referring to iron or steel in general. I treat it as iron that's been hammered into shape using low or no heat.</blockquote>

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