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Okay, so I am developing the monsters for my upcoming encounter. One of the monsters have Protection from Good, DR 5/good and they also have Regeneration (good). How do these work together?
So if a Good PC attacks the monster and surpasses the extra AC provided to the monster from Protection of Good and does more damages to the monster than the damage reduction absorbs, then is it not able to regenerate? If the damage reduction absorbs all the damage done by the good PC does the monster still get to regenerate?
Only damage from good outsiders or holy/blessed/aligned weapons will defeat the regeneration.
Only damage from good outsiders or holy/blessed/aligned weapons will defeat the regeneration.
And the DR
If the weapon or attack has the [good] quality, it will bypass all of the DR/good and stop the regeneration/good for the round. The DR won't apply to any of it so you don't need to factor in if the DR absorbed any damage or not.
and does more damages to the monster than the damage reduction absorbs
The "5/good" means that it will absorb 5 points of damage from all sources, except damage done by good aligned outsiders or good aligned weapons or spells.
Only damage from good outsiders or holy/blessed/aligned weapons will defeat the regeneration.When you say good outsiders, don't you mean creatures (outsiders) with the good subtype? Outsiders, AFAIK, are the only ones to have an alignment subtype, but their actual alignment doesn't matter.
Yes, [good] outsiders. Also spells with the good descriptor like holy smite will work, which I didn't mention the first time.
I was checking the SRD and it says:
Some monsters are vulnerable to good-, evil-, chaotically, or lawfully aligned weapons. When a cleric casts align weapon, affected weapons might gain one or more of these properties, and certain magic weapons have these properties as well. A creature with an alignment subtype (chaotic, evil, good, or lawful) can overcome this type of damage reduction with its natural weapons and weapons it wields as if the weapons or natural weapons had an alignment (or alignments) that matched the subtype(s) of the creature.
Which raises a question, only outsiders can be [good] aligned?
I was checking the SRD and it says:
Which raises a question, only outsiders can be [good] aligned?
Some monsters are vulnerable to good-, evil-, chaotically, or lawfully aligned weapons. When a cleric casts align weapon, affected weapons might gain one or more of these properties, and certain magic weapons have these properties as well. A creature with an alignment subtype (chaotic, evil, good, or lawful) can overcome this type of damage reduction with its natural weapons and weapons it wields as if the weapons or natural weapons had an alignment (or alignments) that matched the subtype(s) of the creature.
It is not restricted to such, but to my knowledge there are no other creature types which have the good subtype.