I have a little problem with the price of SR items.
Why is SR as an armor ability so cheap? SR 19 normally costs 70000gp, on an armor it is a +5 equivalent, so it costs 25000gp.
Can someone enlighten me?
That is funny. I was thinking it is far to much.
SR on armor is mostly a joke since the best you can have is SR 19. Now if you have sacrificed everything else you get a +1 SR 19 armor which is equivalent of +6. (36000) Now if you want any serious armor protection it gets worse a +5 SR 19 Breast plate would be 100,000. For that price it should be suitable for going up against demon princes.
If you have +6 equipment it is safe to assume that level 17 casters are going to be fairly common opponents. They will beet that massive SR on a 2. So you have given up 5 points of SR for a 5% chance to duck a spell.
Since you always have that 5% chance why bother with an SR greater than 13? Everyone has to try for that 5% spell fumble anyway.
For a +5 armor bonus I would like to see a 23 or 24. SR 19 should be a +4 mod.
That makes sense. Thanks a lot.