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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Murrdox" data-source="post: 965264" data-attributes="member: 10131">In general, the changes to DR have me both excited and worried about 3.5.I don't want all my players to have to carry around 4 or 5 different weapons.  I'm also apprehensive of how monsters with DR will hurt each other.  A monster with DR 5/Magic now counts as all attacks being "Magic"?So then I started thinking about Sundering.Let's say you have a random creature with natural weapons and DR 5/Magic.  He's facing off against a fighter with an enchanted sword.Let's assume that in 3.0, this monster has DR 5/+2.Now, in 3.0, this monster can sunder the weapon of the fighter as long as the sword has an enhancement bonus of +2 or below.  He'd have no hope of sundering a +3 or better weapon.However, in 3.5, suddenly the enhancement bonuses don't matter anymore.  A creature with DR 5/Magic should thus be capable of sundering a +5 Dancing Vorpal longsword.I see major problems here, and a major negative factor for EVER making a weapon more than +1, when you could make it Holy, Adamantine, or something else.I'm hoping WotC isn't this stupid, and fighters with +1 daggers won't be able to sunder a +5 greatsword.  How they're going to do this, I have no idea.  Is a +1 Adamantine Holy blade going to be less difficult, the same, or more difficult to sunder than a +2 Silver blade?</blockquote>