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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9586753" data-attributes="member: 52734">I'm mostly of the same thought; you should need silver to take them out, and magic weapons just buy you some time.  I do think that non-magical BPS resistance/immunity is far to common in base 5E, but I think they went too far the other direction.   For example, I think you should be boned if you face a gargoyle without a magic weapon (and they should be resistant to earth/air magic on top of that), some fey should have vulnerability to cold iron - but I wouldn't give them any kind of resistance requiring magic weapons.   Too many times I think it was used as a crutch to keep hp bloat down on higher CR monsters.  The better answer is just don't give the PCs so much firepower in the first place.</blockquote>