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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8724732" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>It's a quibble over " or found a method of attack which didn't interact with this system at all (spell damage, for instance)". There were vanishingly few spells that dealt B/P/S so resistance is what would hit them & SR piled on for other reasons</p><p></p><p></p><p>You are expecting SR to do too many things, it was one tool among many just as spell penetration was. Flat resistance stomped death by a thousand cuts spells like scorching ray & various DoT spells that might not have much cost to a spellcaster without stomping their limited big guns like 5e's resistance. SR forced casters to build differently in spell/feat/prc choices for blasters & controllers or buff/debuff types rather than being able to do all of them by swapping spells like 5e. A pc who doesn't expect to make blasting evocation spells where you find the big damage their bread & butter is going to make choices that help them in other ways & vice versa. Yes conjuration spells were usually sr:no, but they were also usually lower in damage than equivalent level SR:yes evocation spells and/or came with other drawbacks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8724732, member: 93670"] It's a quibble over " or found a method of attack which didn't interact with this system at all (spell damage, for instance)". There were vanishingly few spells that dealt B/P/S so resistance is what would hit them & SR piled on for other reasons You are expecting SR to do too many things, it was one tool among many just as spell penetration was. Flat resistance stomped death by a thousand cuts spells like scorching ray & various DoT spells that might not have much cost to a spellcaster without stomping their limited big guns like 5e's resistance. SR forced casters to build differently in spell/feat/prc choices for blasters & controllers or buff/debuff types rather than being able to do all of them by swapping spells like 5e. A pc who doesn't expect to make blasting evocation spells where you find the big damage their bread & butter is going to make choices that help them in other ways & vice versa. Yes conjuration spells were usually sr:no, but they were also usually lower in damage than equivalent level SR:yes evocation spells and/or came with other drawbacks [/QUOTE]
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