Damage Reduction = Insect Immunity?

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:21:12 +0000, Keith Davies
wrote:

>Loren Pechtel wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:20:37 +0000, Keith Davies
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Lots of branches and stuff, and we've been clearing property for the
>>>last few years.
>>
>> 1/6 of an acre here, nothing to clear!
>
>5 acres here, but we're just about the maintenance-only part. Most of
>it's cleared and has grass growing on it, with a fair scattering of
>trees of various sorts. A lot of it looks pretty parklike, actually.
>
>So, cut the grass, prune the fruit trees and shrubbery, we're mostly
>done.

We don't even own grass-cutting implements. It's entirely trees as a
few bushes with the rest of the ground covered by rock. The law
doesn't even permit more than IIRC 40% lawn here--water supply
problems.

>>>>>Trees? Pick what's in reach, shake the rest down. We keep our
>>>>>trees pruned to about 12' high for a reason.
>>>>
>>>> That's not conductive to getting fruit that will last.
>>>
>>>'last'? What is this 'last' you speak of?
>>>
>>>Most of it gets processed or given away within a week or so.
>>
>> My wife likes it best just as it comes off the tree. When the only
>> fruit eater is 100# the 3-4 hundred pounds of fruit we get do stay
>> around a while. It only gets given away if it's more than she can
>> eat.
>
>Our apple trees come into fruit about a month apart, it seems, and we
>don't have that many. Some gets preserved, most gets eaten, some gets
>given away. We haven't had to do that very much, though.

I wish our apricots did that. It's less than two weeks from the start
of harvest to the end.

I see what you mentioned about shaking them down--apples are a lot
more robust than the stuff we grow here. Even plants with only a
400-hour chilling requirement occasionally don't set properly here and
anything beyond that is out of the question.

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:58:44 -0400, Tetsubo
wrote:

>David Lamb wrote:
>
>> Peter Knutsen wrote:
>>
>>> Baird Stafford wrote:
>>>
>>>> Depends on the DM's definition of "damage," in my view. If the
>>>> definition in use is, "anything that breaks the skin" then no, insect
>>>> bites and the like (except those from swarms, of course) would be
>>>
>>>
>>> Why exclude swarms? That's not realsitic!
>>>
>>> A swarm doesn't actually do 2+ damage ever, it does several instances
>>> of damage *each* worth 1 HP. Even DR 1/- ought to protect against that.
>>
>>
>> In reality something with tough enough skin to be essentially immune to
>> insect bites would still be vulnerable at the eyes, inside the nostrils,
>> inside an opened mouth... none of which are represented directly in
>> D&D. I'd be inclined to leave swarms as Baird suggested.
>
> I wouldn't have low DR effect swarms either. High innate DR yes.

I would simply treat it as a single attack and apply DR normally.