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<blockquote data-quote="Shalewind" data-source="post: 661722" data-attributes="member: 6146">I believe DR to be a middle ground. Some people (read specialized) can penetrate it. Different monsters, different PCs. The rest of the group cannot. This doesn't change effectiveness. It certainly doesn't mean the other PCs can't hurt the baddie (reduced DRs...) People in this world (realisticly) would carry a single (maybe two) devoted weapons and maybe the ocassional (silver, holy, etc...) weapon for those rare &quot;Oh #%#^!&quot; situations. This seems like a far more real scenario than the &quot;golf bag effect&quot;.Petrosian, you say that the new materials will only encourage this &quot;golf bag&quot; behavior. That every &quot;smart&quot; gamer will have to use this option because it's the only way to be powerful enough to be effective in every situation.Well, if that is the style of play you use. I am sorry. I conceed your point to you. If your DM throws the, what was is?, &quot;slahing weapon lathered with wolvebane oil and blessed by a druid of Boccob&quot; every week, I feel very very sorry for you. I would never stand to play in such a world. The world I play in would never have a DM throwing a minor rules point at us every week just to drive home the fact that we don't look like fantasy heroes... There are far better ways for a DM to make challenging encounters on a regular basis. As Fenes 2 said:&nbsp;And this is exactly correct.&nbsp;I would agree.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shalewind, post: 661722, member: 6146"] I believe DR to be a middle ground. Some people (read specialized) can penetrate it. Different monsters, different PCs. The rest of the group cannot. This doesn't change effectiveness. It certainly doesn't mean the other PCs can't hurt the baddie (reduced DRs...) People in this world (realisticly) would carry a single (maybe two) devoted weapons and maybe the ocassional (silver, holy, etc...) weapon for those rare "Oh #%#^!" situations. This seems like a far more real scenario than the "golf bag effect". Petrosian, you say that the new materials will only encourage this "golf bag" behavior. That every "smart" gamer will have to use this option because it's the only way to be powerful enough to be effective in every situation. Well, if that is the style of play you use. I am sorry. I conceed your point to you. If your DM throws the, what was is?, "slahing weapon lathered with wolvebane oil and blessed by a druid of Boccob" every week, I feel very very sorry for you. I would never stand to play in such a world. The world I play in would never have a DM throwing a minor rules point at us every week just to drive home the fact that we don't look like fantasy heroes... There are far better ways for a DM to make challenging encounters on a regular basis. As Fenes 2 said: And this is exactly correct. I would agree. [/QUOTE]

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