Stacking templates...

[Lanathar]

Hi everyone.
If there are two templates that both give a creature the same type of DR do they stack?

For example Ravenous and Broken Soul both give DR 5 / - . What would the creatures DR be? 5 / - or 10 / - ?

Thanks for the help

[Chemlak]

5/-

Edit to expand. Damage reduction numbers don't stack, but the requirement to overcome it does (sort of).

So a creature with DR 5/magic and 5/cold iron and 10/slashing uses the best DR against the weapon being used. If it's not slashing, it has DR 10. If it's a +5 bludgeoning cold iron weapon, it's DR 10.

A cold iron slashing weapon gets hit by the 5/magic.

Effectively, what you have there is DR 5/- and DR 5/-, use whichever is better.

[BigDTBone]

DR doesn't stack regardless of source. But using templates is inherently a DM exercise, if you want them to stack then go ahead.

[Vanykrye]

Lanathar wrote:

Hi everyone.

If there are two templates that both give a creature the same type of DR do they stack?

For example Ravenous and Broken Soul both give DR 5 / - . What would the creatures DR be? 5 / - or 10 / - ?

Thanks for the help

In that case 5/--.

However:

Overcoming Damage Reduction wrote:

If a creature has damage reduction from more than one source, the two forms of damage reduction do not stack. Instead, the creature gets the benefit of the best damage reduction in a given situation.

If you have a case of a creature having something like 10/silver and 5/--, then 10/silver would apply against all attacks except silver weapons (10 is better than 5)...in which case the 5/-- would apply.

[Mark D Griffin]

I do not believe so, but I sadly can't point you to any specific rules that back that up. Unless you count the rules of adding a mythic subtype which specifically says that DR numbers don't stack and only the highest counts.

Now what does stack is what is required to bypass the DR. So if one template has DR 5 / Good and one has DR 10 / Slashing, the new DR is DR 10/ slashing and good.

[Lanathar]

Thanks. This is what I thought as well
Might make my planned monster killable!

[Midnight_Angel]

Mark D Griffin wrote:

So if one template has DR 5 / Good and one has DR 10 / Slashing, the new DR is DR 10/ slashing and good.

Negative on that, Houston.

It will have DR 5/good and DR 10/slashing.

Substracting 10 from any non-slashing attack, including good ones.
Subtracting 5 from any non-good attack, including slashing ones.

In case of the attack being neither slashing nor good, only the 10 applies.

[blood_kite]

Mark D Griffin wrote:

I do not believe so, but I sadly can't point you to any specific rules that back that up. Unless you count the rules of adding a mythic subtype which specifically says that DR numbers don't stack and only the highest counts.

Now what does stack is what is required to bypass the DR. So if one template has DR 5 / Good and one has DR 10 / Slashing, the new DR is DR 10/ slashing and good.

If a creature has damage reduction from more than one source, the two forms of damage reduction do not stack. Instead, the creature gets the benefit of the best damage reduction in a given situation.

http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/glossary.html#_damage-reduction

This would suggest that your example of DR 5/Good and DR 10/Slashing becoming DR 10/Good and Slashing would be wrong. It is two different cases of DR and each one gets checked seperately against the damage type of the weapon.

[KainPen]

read this Thread! It is not recommed you add more then one template to creature.

[Midnight_Angel]

KainPen wrote:

It is not recommed you add more then one template to creature.

No fair! I was so fond of my young giant crocodiles...

*ducks for cover*