Yet Another Damage Reduction (Playing now please help)

[apesamongus]

From what I understand, monsters who have Damage Reduction may bypass one another's DR provided they have the same type of DR or better.

That's 3.0. In 3.5 there is no longer a concept of "better", you either overcome the DR specifically or you don't.

 

[Philip]

No.

You can think of it as that the monster needs to be 'suffused' with the property of the thing behind the DR slash.

Evil monsters that have DR x/good are not inherently good, thus cannot penetrate DR x/good. If they have the evil subtype (most monster with DR x/good have) they are so suffused with evil that their natural weapons count as evil.

Monsters with DR x/magic are so suffused with magic that they can penetrate DR x/magic (make sense?)

Monsters with DR x/epic are so 'epic' that their attacks can penetrate DR x/epic.

But (obviously) a golem with DR x/adamantine is rarely ever 'really adamantine', nor is a werewolf made of silver, nor do fey with DR x/cold iron have the metal running through their veins.

Creatures with DR x/material are rarely 'suffused' with that material, usually it's even antithetical to them.

The 3.5 way of treating DR actually makes sense....

 

[glass]

That's 3.0. In 3.5 there is no longer a concept of "better", you either overcome the DR specifically or you don't.

Except with /magic and /epic.


glass.