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I'm fairly certain that in the event DR completely negates the base damage of an attack, all other effects of that attack (with the specific exceptions of touch attacks, elemental damage, and level drain listed in the SRD) are negated. On the other hand, I've seen it ruled both ways for sneak attack, and even the official FAQ/rulings/sage-advice have flip flopped on it.

For me, that's the key. Like elemental damage.

As far as 'how do they DO that damage if they can't get through the DR to get at the vitals?' goes, it's got easy examples if you're in the mood.

Amazingly hard scales, yeah. Pull off a sneak attack, and you got through the seam between two scales as the beast turned (the additional damage was enough to penetrate DR while the base was insufficient... the system doesn't allow for hit locations, particularly golden-bb type hit locations, but the narrative could describe the successful sneak attack in these terms).
(Apologies to Tolkein, but it's an easy one many people might recognize) Bard the Archer vs. Smaugh the Dragon: Critical hit with sneak attack? Arrow of slaying? Or outstandingly called shot? Depending on your combat narrative, any of these could be the case.

I enjoy the game, I enjoy the rulebook.
I particularly enjoy that I can and did get the Beta version in PDF. I plan to buy the hardback (though I'd still like a PDF version of the final, for ease of printing segments).

But that brings me to what I don't like. Even in the broken-down-by-chapter version, which has the character sheet as its own pdf (plus two pages), there are some things I'd like to do that I'm blocked from doing due to Adobe DRM locking.

Primarily, I'd like to be able to turn it into a fillable form. I have Acrobat pro, but it won't allow the document to be turned into a form directly without the DRM password. I expect it's a global password, and I don't expect that... but could you either release the character sheet itself as unlocked, or release a version of it with usable form fields?

On the ease of printing segments: When running a game, I find it's amazingly useful to be able to build drafts of all of the characters' special abilities. Spells, feats, character specific useful tables, etc. And put them in a folder with the character sheet.
That way during the game there's less flipping through the book to find things relevant to any given player, and flow of play is disrupted less. I haven't tried this yet with the Beta PDF, but I assume I won't run into problems sending segments to the printer (like a given spell's description block).

But please, release an unlocked character sheet, or a form based locked one.

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Paul