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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 5373251" data-attributes="member: 29252">So... your DM is killing you via tactics.  And doing it quite carefully, so that you can still survive, when the dice are against you, without doing anything particularly obvious.  You've got a rather good DM.  Bravo.As for SR:Good luck.  There's not really an item that fits your requirements, but SR is a pain anyway - it takes a standard action to lower so that you can let a beneficial spell through... and lowering isn't selective.  And almost all the helpful or healing spells permit SR.  Which pretty much means if you've got a significant amount of SR, you can't benefit from helpful spells (including healing spells).  Oh yes, and you can't take standard actions if you're unconscious - so if you go into the negatives from damage, you've got a problem.  A slightly better solution is to start using tactics yourselves.  You've got a Blaster Sorcerer, a healer, a buffer, two melee specialists, and a skillmonkey.  If you're having trouble with casters, use a caster-counter method: 1) Readied actions to disrupt spellcasting (if they're far away or nearby).  2) Grappling (if they're nearby).  If you don't have any particular ranged attacks yourselves... likely except for the blaster Sorcerer.  So have him ready actions if you find out you're up against spellcasters.  Damage forces concentration checks - 10+damage dealt+the level of the spell you're trying to cast.  Which means that opposing Sorcerer-6, when hit by, say, a Sorcerer-6's Fireball, needs to make a DC 23.5 (if he makes his reflex save, on average) Concentration check to cast a 3rd level spell.  If he doesn't make his reflex save, that DC goes up to 34 (on average) - which is out of reach for most casters of that level, without concentrating very hard on the Concentrate skill.  And it still deals damage to the targetNow, while you're at a level where you can reasonably expect spellcasters to get out of grapples periodically (Dimension Door), you're not really at a level where you can reasonably expect spellcasters to be immune to grapples in the first place (Ring of Freedom of Movement, the Heart of Water spell, a few other methods).  Stop and actually read the grappling rules all the way through.  They are MADE OF PAIN for a spellcaster at your level - full-round action to get focuses or material components in hand where they can be used, a non-trivial concentration check to cast anything at all (20+Spell level), and oh yes: Can't cast anything with Somatic components (95+% of spells), and standard action spells only ... so no spontaneous metamagic (well, without the assorted means to avoid the increased casting time).  Unless the opposing caster has specifically prepared against grappling, the opposing spellcaster is kinda sunk if it happens.  Sure, grappling without the feat investment provokes an AoO from the target... which spoils the grapple if it hits ... but that only matters if the target threatens, and most spellcasters don't.</blockquote>

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