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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 2577093" data-attributes="member: 23094">Except, of course, when it is.  You know, all those daring fights in dangerous locations that Star Wars is famous for.  Or those bad guys who like to, as Rem put it, "Force Grip the unconscious guy."I disagree.  I've found that DR is largely useless.  First, nobody other than soldiers starts off knowing how to wear armor at all, even they need to spend feats to wear anything higher than light armor (DR ... 3? Max), and DR doesn't apply to Vitality damage.Accordingly, the only time DR is at all useful is when you take a critical hit or when you're out of VP.Subtracting 3 points of damage from a 3d6 or 3d8 damage roll isn't a lot.  It's probably enough to drop you from "Immediately Dead" to "Gravely Wounded and Still Unconscious," but that's about it.  Sometimes, it won't even save you then.Yes, critical hits for 3 damage do happen.  Of course they do.  They just happen less often then critical hits for 24 damage (assuming a 3d8 weapon).Blaster pistols are the most common civilian weapons in the galaxy.  Whether that has any applicability to most SW campaigns remains to be proven.Cortosis armor - that would be the stuff that no one knows about for most of the SW timeframe, right?As in, it was known in the far distant past (KotOR-era), it's known about in the New Jedi Era (thanks to Luke and Corran Horn), but for vast stretches in the middle, it's not really present.In your opinion.</blockquote>

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