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D&D 3.5 Damage Reduction Question

naporeonnaporeon Seattle, WARegistered User regular
edited October 2006 in Critical Failures
ODaM is quickly turning into my go-to place for D&D questions...I love how fast and thoroughly questions get answered here.

Now for my question: What happens when a character has two different forms of inherent DR? A Warforged Warlock could conceivably have DR of varying values, with one being keyed to Cold Iron, and the other, say, to Adamantine. Common sense would dictate that in a situation like this, they would both absorb their share of the damage before the DR is considered surpassed, but I could be way off with this. So, which is it?

Please cite your source in your answer. Thanks!

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  • Paranoia833Paranoia833 Registered User regular
    edited October 2006
    In the case of two or more different sources of damage reduction only the highest applies. If the highest DR is negated then the next highest one applies and so forth. So if Bob the wereverine has DR 10/silver and slashing and DR 5/magic, he has a DR of 10. If he's attacked with a silver warhammer he still has a DR of 10. If he's attacked with a silver longsword he has a DR of 5. If he's attacked with a magical silver longsword he gets no DR against it.

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  • LitejediLitejedi New York CityRegistered User regular
    edited October 2006
    Paranoia833 wrote:
    If he's attacked with a silver warhammer he still has a DR of 10.

    If he's attacked with a silver warhammer, he'll reduce the damage by 5. Silver bypasses "silver" DR.

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  • Paranoia833Paranoia833 Registered User regular
    edited October 2006
    Litejedi wrote:
    If he's attacked with a silver warhammer, he'll reduce the damage by 5. Silver bypasses "silver" DR.

    Ah, but I specified that Bob has DR 10/Silver and slashing. A warhammer doesn't deal slashing damage.

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited October 2006
    Paranoia833 wrote:
    In the case of two or more different sources of damage reduction only the highest applies.

    Just a slight correction, only the most advantageous applies.

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  • DeepQantasDeepQantas Registered User regular
    edited October 2006
    Paranoia833 wrote:
    In the case of two or more different sources of damage reduction only the highest applies. If the highest DR is negated then the next highest one applies and so forth. So if Bob the wereverine has DR 10/silver and slashing and DR 5/magic, he has a DR of 10. If he's attacked with a silver warhammer he still has a DR of 10. If he's attacked with a silver longsword he has a DR of 5. If he's attacked with a magical silver longsword he gets no DR against it.

    DMG 3.5, pg 292, 4th paragraph. Under the section "Damage Reduction".

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  • LitejediLitejedi New York CityRegistered User regular
    edited October 2006
    Paranoia833 wrote:
    Litejedi wrote:
    If he's attacked with a silver warhammer, he'll reduce the damage by 5. Silver bypasses "silver" DR.

    Ah, but I specified that Bob has DR 10/Silver and slashing. A warhammer doesn't deal slashing damage.

    I must have skipped over the slashing part. Sorry.

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