What DR does the "epic" descriptor affect?

[Otterscrubber]

Where is the "epic" weapon description for 3.5? What does it mean? If a weapon is "epic", like a Solar's sword, is it also considered magical for purposes of defeating DR? If so does it also get through other forms of DR?

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

Anything +6 or better is Epic. This also makes them Magic by default.

It doesn't breach any other form of DR.

 

[Gwarok]

I would expect Epic to bypass all forms of DR. These are very powerful creatures, seems silly they would have their damage mitigated by say, a werewolf.

 

[nameless]

What I'm kind of concerned with is the varying degrees of epic DR. It used to be possible to have 50/+6 DR and 200/+35 DR, which might be the difference between level 22 and level 100. In non-epic, the granularity isn't that important or realistic, but with beings of deific power, that granularity could be more important, IMO. If it's all just epic now, will it now just be more complex, like 100/epic and epic good and adamantine and bane, or something like that?

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

I would expect Epic to bypass all forms of DR. These are very powerful creatures, seems silly they would have their damage mitigated by say, a werewolf.

Thing is, at Epic levels, you could blast through a werewolf and his DR with enough damage to kill it dead in one round. Lycanthrope DR just doesn't matter by the time Epic blades are in play.

 

[gfunk]

What I'm kind of concerned with is the varying degrees of epic DR.

According to the conversion guide, the following DR conventions are used:

1) 15/epic is considered the maximum for creatures of CR 20 or under.

2) For creatures of CR 20-40, DR 20/epic is considered the maximum. The more powerful monsters in MMII and abominations in the ELH have this.

3) 25/epic is considered the maximum possible DR for non-deific creatures. Examples of these creatures include Ancient Force and Prismatic Dragons in the ELH.

4) 30/epic is the DR baseline for greater gods in D&D.