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Yeah.
"resistance to fire 12" means this:
somebody hits you with a fireball. After saving throw, the fireball does.....let's say 20 h.p. in damage.
Since you have resist fire 12, then you only take 8 h.p.
Now, a rakshasa has DR 15 good and piercing.
Somebody hits a rakshasa with a +2 battleaxe that does.....20 h.p. in damage. It's not a good weapon, it's not a piercing weapon. The rak takes 5 h.p. in damage.
NOW, somebody gets out a crossbow bolt which is a piercing weapon that's been hit with an align weapon spell by a cleric who aligned it to good.....it does normal damage to the rakshasa.
Element resistance allows a character/creature to ignore the first "x" number of points worth of damage it takes from an attack of that type.
For example, if a creature with Fire Resistance 10 gets hit with a spell that does 5d6 fire-based damage, the damage roll might indicate 18hp of damage; the creature ignores the first 10 and is subject to the remaining 8 points. (If the spell allows a Reflex save for half, the creature could make its save and take only 4 points.)
DR is somewhat similar in that it allows the creature to ignore the first "x" points worth of damage, but instead of protecting only against a certain type of damage (i.e., fire) it protects against hit point damage from any source except the one specified, which bypasses it entirely.
So if you have DR 5/silver, a silver weapon inflicts normal damage, just as if you had no DR at all; any weapon that isn't silver still rolls its normal damage, but the target ignores the first 5 points worth.
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if there's two types and it says "good or cold steel," like I think some devils do, then just one.
if there's two types and it says "good and piercing" like the rakshasa does, then you need both.
I think werecreatures take silver, whereas vampires take "silver and magic" so you'd need a magic silver weapon to bypass the DR.
THEN, there's some things (can't think of any right now, besides higher level barbarians) that say DR5/- which means dr 5 to every weapon no matter what it's made of.
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For example, if a creature with Fire Resistance 10 gets hit with a spell that does 5d6 fire-based damage, the damage roll might indicate 18hp of damage; the creature ignores the first 10 and is subject to the remaining 8 points. (If the spell allows a Reflex save for half, the creature could make its save and take only 4 points.)
That's not right. You make the save and half the damage before you apply resistances. If the creature with fire resist 10 made its save vs. 18 points of fire damage, it wouldn't take any damage at all. 18, save for half is 9, -10 fire resist is less than 0, so no damage.
Another point on DR, magic weapons with high + on them can bypass some DR. There is a chart somewhere in the book that gives all the details on that.
He said he was new to DnD. Since most 'new' players have limited access to 3.5 core books, I assumed he was playing Pathfinder.
Is this for Pathfinder, or 3.5?
Another thing to keep in mind, spells and energy damage can bypass damage reduction. So a character with DR 5/- would still take full damage from a spell like magic missile and if hit with a flaming sword, the fire damage would not be reduced but the sword damage would be.
Can someone explain something to me.
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It should also be noted that DR doesn't protect against elemental damage... just physical damage from weapons and the like. A fireball would deal full damage to a critter with DR 10/Good as long as the critter doesn't also have some form of fire resistance.
spell resistance works like this (in 3.5)
Its like rolling an attack only you use your caster level instead of BAB.
so 1d20+caster level, if you meet or beat the SR your spell affects the creature.
(and of course vice versa is true if you are the one with SR the creature will have to roll 1d20 and add its caster level if it roll high enough its spell will affect you)
So if your a level 4 Wizard and you cast charm person on some one with spell resistance 15. you roll 1d20+4 (your caster level) if the total is 15 or higher then the person is charmed (if they dont make the will save). Note that there are a few feats that will give you additional bonuses against SR such as spell penetration.
One thing to remember is not all spells are subject to SR if you look in the description of the spell in question there will be an entry that says Spell Resistance: yes (or no) if yes that spell is subject to SR if no then its is not subject.
You do the save first. This determines how much damage your character would take. Then you apply energy resistance to that damage, if any is left then you take that otherwise you don't take any.
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The easiest way to think about is is this:
Resistance tells what a character does NOT take damage from. So if a character has Fire Resistance 5, then it ignores the first 5 points of fire damage.
Damage Reduction tells what a character DOES take damage from. So if a character has DR 5/Blunt, the he ignores the first 5 points of all damage that isn't classified as Blunt damage.
Seconding Rez. The option for binding is DR 1/-, binding augments stack with one another (but not with other effects of the same type, so if he has DR/- from something else it won't stack with his augments) so if he dumped all his augments into DR it'd be 5/-.
And the in book description does not help.. Because it only says it for binding a single vestige.. Not if he binds more then one that day.
All augments are assigned when the first Vestige of the day is bound. They're a separate class ability, not directly tied to the number of Vestiges he has active, except for the requirement that he have at least one bound.
P.S. I might have to disagree with Orthos about the DR not stacking with other sources. It's an untyped bonus, so if it doesn't stack then the untyped bonus HP shouldn't stack with other bonuses, such as spells that increase CON or temporary HP. IMHO it stacks with everything, so if you get DR 5/magic from a buff spell or potion or something, then you have DR 10 / (5 magic) and a partial bypass.
You're probably right. Unfortunately I posted this too late to blame still being semi-asleep ;)
Having DMed several Binders and played one myself, they're actually not that much of a headache... the design is pretty straightforward, I'm curious what parts are confusing.