Just want to clerify DR/alignment type

[Oryan77]

An evil aligned creature wielding weapons (not just natural attack) counts as bypassing DR/evil correct? This applies to PC's also? So a Lawful Evil PC wielding a plain iron sword could bypass a creatures DR/evil because his alignment is evil?

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

An evil aligned creature wielding weapons (not just natural attack) counts as bypassing DR/evil correct? This applies to PC's also? So a Lawful Evil PC wielding a plain iron sword could bypass a creatures DR/evil because his alignment is evil?

No. That rule applies only to creatures with an alignment subtype. For instance, here's the [Evil] subtype rules:

Evil Subtype: A subtype usually applied only to outsiders native to the evil-aligned Outer Planes. Evil outsiders are also called fiends. Most creatures that have this subtype also have evil alignments; however, if their alignments change, they still retain the subtype. Any effect that depends on alignment affects a creature with this subtype as if the creature has an evil alignment, no matter what its alignment actually is. The creature also suffers effects according to its actual alignment. A creature with the evil subtype overcomes damage reduction as if its natural weapons and any weapons it wields were evil-aligned (see Damage Reduction, above).

 

[Oryan77]

Ah ok, I was confused about subtype being different than just a persons alignment. I didn't think that PC's could do that, but a player in the game yesterday made a comment as if he thought it works. So I read the DR info in the MM lastnight and thought that maybe it does bypass dpenending on PC's alignment. Thanks.

 

[Elephant]

This has popped up in my campaign. Yesterday, the party encountered Mariliths, and my cleric naturally fired off a Righteous Might. The DM was caught a bit flat-footed when asked, "So, the damage I just took...does that bypass my DR?" (he doesn't usually use demons against us)

We ended up poring over the Marilith entry in the MM for a couple of minutes until we found the text relating to DR.

It's also annoying when I strike a foe who may or may not have an evil alignment (hey, LN creatures can be hired by the BEGs, too!), I ask, "Is this guy 'Evil'? and the DM goes, "Hmm, ya think?" I could probably get away with asking less often, but I wouldn't want to apply the extra 2d6 to that Neutral soldier who merely has poor taste in employers

 

[Lord Gwydion]

It's also annoying when I strike a foe who may or may not have an evil alignment (hey, LN creatures can be hired by the BEGs, too!), I ask, "Is this guy 'Evil'? and the DM goes, "Hmm, ya think?" I could probably get away with asking less often, but I wouldn't want to apply the extra 2d6 to that Neutral soldier who merely has poor taste in employers

So why not just roll the extra alignment damage anyway, and tell the DM "13 points of base damage and 7 good damage if the guy's evil."???