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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Petrosian" data-source="post: 660639" data-attributes="member: 1149">[/B]</blockquote>Hint: The bad guys are supposed to lose.Hint: balance concerns are not usually about PCs beating the bad guys, because the PCs are supposed to beat the bad guys.Hint: if your main character get killed off in chapter-3, thats a mighty short book.I think the purpose of Dr is to provide a tougher challenge without raising Hp beyond a preconcieved level. HP derive directly from HD but many other things do as well. So, adding in DR might mean you extend the beastie's toughness without increasing his saves and to hit and so on.In 3.5e the purpose seems to be to encourage "porcupine" fighters who are armed with a silver axe, a golden mace, a wooden spear, a cold iron flail, a holysilver dagger, a blessed sap, a coppertop glaive, a bronze ranseur, and his buddy the sorcerer with the GMW for the needed weapon of the moment.Ok, it really sepends on whether you are playing a fantasy character or a DND character. In most fantasy novels i have read and fantasy movies i have seen the hero or heroes each carry one weapons, maybe two at most.The new DR thingy will make it sensible to carry a multitude of weapons of different shapes and materials and rely on magic spells to boost the weapon de jour. this is done because of the game mechanic... not because it makes sense for our stalwart dwarven hero to walk around like the porcupine fighter of olden days.of course, in 3e with the availability of hewaerd haversacks and such, he wont look like a porcupine.irrelevent. how many will be thrown at the party is what matters more.What matters even more than that is the fact that the party, not knowing how many or what they are, will prepare for this by trying to cover all the bases. Even if the never encounter a werewolf, they will be stocking up on silver weapons... just in case.By 5th level or so it should be no great shakes of effort or imagination or ingenuity for a fighter to have his haversack and his collection of odd materials weapons and a variety of shapes.We aren't talking rocket science or high end tactics here.more like accounting or inventory control.i dont see the benefits of this new Dr doing anything good. i definitely see bad sides.[/QUOTE]

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