Quote Originally Posted by Debihuman View Post
The 12 HD Dark Flan has DR 60/magic! That's way too much damage reduction. Not even epic creatures have that much damage reduction. It's 4 times better than what the tarrasque has.

Have you looked at the Rules Compendium on damage reduction? DR should be between 5 and 15.

I understand that the various flans rely heavily on damage reduction in the video game, but for a d20 game that is just going to drag out combat unless the party is equipped with epic weapons or artifacts or spells that can do massive amounts of damage. It's not appropriate to a CR 11.

If you give the Dark Flan DR 15/magic, then the Aqua Flan should have DR/10, and the Fire and Ice Flans should have DR/5.

This is more in keeping with their number of hit dice and their challenge rating.

Debby
It isn't all that hard to get magic weapons (or the magic weapon spell if you're just importing monsters and not the classes into your game), which neatly bypass DR 60/magic. They're meant to be stupidly hard against melee, but bypassed by magic. I'd actually suggest instead using Debby's lowered DR numbers, but make it DR /-. That way any physical attacks get reduced, but magic bypasses that.