Post/Author/DateTime	Post
LiamDeclan 11-15-05, 02:50 PM	I was looking in a Dragon Mag. #304 and they have a race template called Unseelie Fey. Anyway they take damage from just the mere touch of Iron and +1d6 extra damage on a hit from iron/steel weapons. A 7th level Unseelie Fey character gains damage reduction 5/iron and it increases whenever the HD of the characer increases as well. What I was wondering is if an Unseelie Fey became a Warlock would that class feature of the Warlock's damage reduction to cold iron stack? Or would they be calculated separately?
q'afuu 11-15-05, 03:07 PM	DR doesn't stack, unless explicitly noted otherwise. In this case there isn't any question though: DR/iron is not the same as DR/cold iron. If it's not the same, it can't stack.
green_yawgmoth 11-15-05, 04:41 PM	And in all honesty, you wouldn't want them to anyways. If you have DR 5/iron and DR 5/cold iron (2 completely different materials), then you effectively have DR 5/-, since iron weapons can't beat the cold iron DR, and cold iron weapons don't beat normal iron DR (as far as I know). http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/yawgmoth/kittyjig.gif
Rocketboy13 11-15-05, 05:47 PM	I also have that issue of Dragon and it was published prior to 3.5 and the new damage reduction rules. You should just cahnge everything over to 5/cold iron or 10/cold iron. But don't go any higher than that, it gets pretty swingy in combat situations. :teach: Also, when faced with two damage reduction types, just take the one that is most favorable for the situation. :fight!: If a fey/magical beast has both damage reduction 5/cold iron and damage reduction 10/magic, use the 10/magic; if the opponent has a magic weapon, use the 5/cold iron; if his weapon is both magic and cold iron, it bypasses both forms of damage reduction. Hope that helped. :D
LiamDeclan 11-16-05, 04:32 AM	Thanks for all of your help guys. I have finally figured it out.