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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7256746" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, obviously you're NOT rewriting the combat engine, but doing away with AC and making armor provide DR and having only 3 defenses works really really well. None of these sorts of considerations need to be addressed mechanically using that system. You have your good and not-so-good defenses, and then whatever manages to get past them gets reduced. This also has a tendency to devalue multi-attacks quite a bit (since it effectively multiplies the value of the target's armor). There is of course an argument for armor only working against some damage types, but frankly I didn't want the complexity. Yes, a 'fear' (psychic) attack will get a DR for armor, but you can just chalk it up to increased confidence when sporting an iron skin! This also means that you don't absolutely HAVE to keep jacking up your armor. It will naturally be relatively less effective against high level attacks that deal more damage, but in absolute terms it is still effective. Of course it still makes sense to get hold of higher DR magic armor.Anyway, I know nobody is going to reprogram THAT much of CB, sadly, but it does work nicely!</blockquote>