Boar Style and DR


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A monk in my weekly game has the Boar Style feat, and recently went up against a creature with a considerable hunk of DR. Now, I've always understood the Boar Style feat to act similar to a Rend, so I applied the DR to his first attack, second attack, and then to the rend (treating them as three attacks).

HOWEVER, looking up the most recent version of the Feat text, it says that you simply deal an additional 2d6 damage "with the attack", which implies that it's not a separate attack, but adds on to an attack. But which attack does it add on to, if that's the case? Boar Style only activates after you've hit with 2 or more unarmed attacks.


I would apply DR vs. the additional damage as well. However, if you want to consider the "additional damage" as adding to the 2nd attack, that works too.


I'd let the player add the damage onto the last hit he made. It's only 2d6 damage and he's already using unarmed. No need to make him even more gimped by DR.

Lore-wise it makes sense: the PC just dug his nails and teeth into someone, so ripping them out to tear flesh could happen whenever and shouldn't be especially impacted by DR since it got under the skin.


He actually does a huge amount of damage compared to the rest of the party in most situations. I really wish the wording was less ambiguous.

Scarab Sages

Just be glad it's boar style and not jabbing master.


Last line of the feat is "When you do, you deal 2d6 extra points of damage with the attack" Extra damage with the attack is the same language used for Sneak Attack, so unless you are applying DR separately for weapon damage and SA damage you should not be doing so with Boar Style.

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