Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7936879" data-attributes="member: 93670">No, you don't get it.  In the context of having the first 5, 10, or even more points of damage shaved off, a 5-10% chance is not high enough to count on.Also nothing in 5e has dr, 5e uses resistance.  The point of those monsters with dr was to force the party to change/shake up their tactics not create complexity.  The same is true of things like wraith/trog/rust monsters/etc that would shake up the normal roles in various ways.  Combined with actual choices like "do I move like so & take an AoO to do X or not" created more choices & things to consider 5e crit fish builds are not reliable enough to be a factor for 3.5 style DR  & you can't simply graft it onto monsters because you lack a fleshed out functional support for ways to overcome it with  so you just make gwm required.</blockquote>