Originally Posted by
Cogidubnus
I spoke to Gorgondantess, and he made the very good point that, for example, at level 10 you have DR 5. You might be fighting a giant who's doing 25-40 points of damage in a hit. DR isn't anywhere near as powerful as WotC seem to have thought it was when they made it so hard for players to get. Reducing the damage you take by 1 5th only means who need to be hit 6 times rather than 5. That's not that big a difference, especially if 4 hits would have normally killed you.