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.īasically, you need the alignment subtype for your attacks to count as that alignment. Some monsters are vulnerable to good-, evil-, chaotic-, or lawful-aligned weapons, such as from an align weapon spell or the holy magical weapon property. A +5 weapon bypasses silver, cold iron, adamantine, and all alignment based DR.Ģ) The Universal Monster Rules in the Bestiary 2 clears this up: Bypassing DR/Magic requires a magical enhancement bonus of +1 or greater, which a +3 weapon has. Spells aren't affected by DR at all? So your common or garden magic missile happily does full damage against a monster with 20/- reduction?ġ) The equivalency table is cumulative. If a monster has DR of (Greater Earth Elemental for example) 10/- what do it's attacks count as? A monster with 10/magic has attacks that are counted as magic, if I read it correctly, but I don't see text for monsters with the '-' reduction.Ĭertain massive monsters (Rolling out the Tyrannosaurus again) have no DR at all, but are massive beasties do their attacks not count in any way against DR? (Not that the T-Rex needs to worry much about DR, it does massive amounts of damage!) Note that Eiodolons also have a cheaper evolution "magic attacks" (p60 APG) as well. Speaking of Eidolons the evolution "Damage Reduction" (p63 advanced players guide) gives the Eidolon DR5/alignment does this now mean that the Eiodolons natural attacks will now count as ignoring DR for that alignment (and cold iron, silver, adamantantine, maybe magic) as alignment based attacks are equivalent to +5. If a monster has two types of DR what do it's attacks natural attacks count as, eg a Kyton has DR 5/silver or good, do it's attacks count as silver (+3) or alignment (+5)? if a summoners Eidolon has 5/Neutral are a monster with DR 5/Lawful attacks still reduced by 5? If you are a monster with alignment based reduction (eg 5/Lawful) do your natural attacks have no effect on any other alignment DR other than lawful? I.e. an Morlock is CE, do it's attacks count as Chaotic? Is the only way to get an alignment based attack in a weapon to cast either align weapon, use a +5 weapon or be a monster with a 10/lawful (for example) reduction and use a natural attack? Or is a alignment monster using it's natural attacks counted as damage of that type, e.g. There are a few bits about damage reduction that I'm unclear on in pathfinder, specifically.Įasy one first Do cold iron/silver weapons equivalent (+3) count as magic for purposes of ignoring DR? This is certainly implied, but not categorically stated as I read it.
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