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<blockquote data-quote="Murrdox" data-source="post: 812236" data-attributes="member: 10131">You're the DM.&nbsp; What you say goes.I would say you were being unfair if the characters had faced OTHER were-creatures before, and hurt them with magical weapons.Otherwise, your players should never &quot;complain&quot; because you're changing the stat block on a creature.&nbsp; Just to keep the playing field level, you could have told them ahead of time that you were going to try using some of the new DR rules, but not tell them what it was... a PC should rarely have full knowledge of a creature's stat block.Interestingly enough, I am in a very similar position.The PC's in my party are coming to the end of the dungeon they are currently in.&nbsp; The dungeon has a Kyton as the BBEG.&nbsp; Per the monster manual, a Kyton has a DR of 15/+2.&nbsp; I thought that my players would have +2 weapons by now, but they decided against buying them.&nbsp; I know their capabilities, and a 15 DR that they can't defeat, combined with the regeneration of it will make this combat basically unbeatable.So what I did is take a cue from the new DR types, and the fact that it's been said that just about all DRs are going down.&nbsp; SO, I changed the Kyton's DR to 10/holy silver.&nbsp; Do they have any holy silver weapons?&nbsp; No, but a 10 DR will be beatable... a 15 they would never be able to hurt.I think your ruling is fine Doc, what do folks think of the adjustments I've made to the Kyton?&nbsp; I took the holy silver idea from the Pit Fiend block that Wizards released.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Murrdox, post: 812236, member: 10131"] You're the DM. What you say goes. I would say you were being unfair if the characters had faced OTHER were-creatures before, and hurt them with magical weapons. Otherwise, your players should never "complain" because you're changing the stat block on a creature. Just to keep the playing field level, you could have told them ahead of time that you were going to try using some of the new DR rules, but not tell them what it was... a PC should rarely have full knowledge of a creature's stat block. Interestingly enough, I am in a very similar position. The PC's in my party are coming to the end of the dungeon they are currently in. The dungeon has a Kyton as the BBEG. Per the monster manual, a Kyton has a DR of 15/+2. I thought that my players would have +2 weapons by now, but they decided against buying them. I know their capabilities, and a 15 DR that they can't defeat, combined with the regeneration of it will make this combat basically unbeatable. So what I did is take a cue from the new DR types, and the fact that it's been said that just about all DRs are going down. SO, I changed the Kyton's DR to 10/holy silver. Do they have any holy silver weapons? No, but a 10 DR will be beatable... a 15 they would never be able to hurt. I think your ruling is fine Doc, what do folks think of the adjustments I've made to the Kyton? I took the holy silver idea from the Pit Fiend block that Wizards released. [/QUOTE]

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