Any sense of having DR / evil?

[Bohdan Maksymenko]

So, in most pf games, people play good/neutral characters. Good chatacters usualy fight evil characters. Say you summon an archon or some other guy with DR/evil. He gets hit by his natural enemy - an evil demon. His DR has no effect on the demons attacks. What is the point of DR/evil if it doesnt protect from your main enemy?

[Diego Rossi]

For most of them it applies only to their natural weapons, not manufactured weapons, so often it reduce their ability to use their best weapons.

[Gorbacz]

Bohdan Maksymenko wrote:

So, in most pf games, people play good/neutral characters. Good chatacters usualy fight evil characters. Say you summon an archon or some other guy with DR/evil. He gets hit by his natural enemy - an evil demon. His DR has no effect on the demons attacks. What is the point of DR/evil if it doesnt protect from your main enemy?

The point is having the archon immune to attacks of demon's cultists and minions.

[Diego Rossi]

I must correct my previous post:

PRD wrote:

Some monsters are vulnerable to good-, evil-, chaotically, or lawfully aligned weapons. When a cleric casts align weapon, affected weapons might gain one or more of these properties, and certain magic weapons have these properties as well. A creature with an alignment subtype (chaotic, evil, good, or lawful) can overcome this type of damage reduction with its natural weapons and weapons it wields as if the weapons or natural weapons had an alignment (or alignments) that matched the subtype(s) of the creature.

So all outsiders with the Evil subtype will be able to overcome DR/evil with both natural and manufactured weapons.

[Matthew Downie]

Bohdan Maksymenko wrote:

What is the point of DR/evil if it doesnt protect from your main enemy?

What's the point of having Evil attacks if it doesn't allow you to overcome the DR of your main enemy?

[Jeff Morse]

Remember that it goes both ways.

[Bob Bob Bob]

To protect you from silly mortals trying to get involved in divine affairs. Duh.

[ryric]

It's more that only your "main" enemy can truly hurt you.

[Murdock Mudeater]

Bohdan Maksymenko wrote:

So, in most pf games, people play good/neutral characters. Good chatacters usualy fight evil characters. Say you summon an archon or some other guy with DR/evil. He gets hit by his natural enemy - an evil demon. His DR has no effect on the demons attacks. What is the point of DR/evil if it doesnt protect from your main enemy?

I used to think about it like this. But it's the wrong way to look at it. Instead, think about it as being specialized against their favored foe and their favored foe being specialized against them.

Basically, evil outsiders have special training against good outsiders and good outsiders get special training against evil outsiders. Makes sense, since these are their natural enemies.