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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6608739" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Resistance/vulnerability is what someone else suggested, for 5E, since 5E doesn't deal with fiddly little +1 or +2 bonuses. If it's not big enough for advantage/disadvantage, or resistance/vulnerability, then it's not worth tracking in 5E. Yet, if you decide that it is worth making this distinction, then advantage/disadvantage or resistance/vulnerability is probably too much; nobody is actually going to swing a sword at someone in plate, if there's such a huge penalty, and switching to a hammer is a trivial action.If you really want to deal with minor bookkeeping, then the easiest answer is probably to just hand out minor DR to the various armor sets. Maybe plate can have DR 2/bludgeoning, and leather can have DR 2/slashing. I would definitely say that it's easier to modify the damage roll, rather than the attack roll.</blockquote>