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Originally Posted by Plane
Conceptually, it doesn't seem reliable, but I'm talking about in accordance with the written rule, which doesn't appear to reduce Cover DR for Diffuse things like it does for Unliving/Homogenous.
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Indeed! However, "diffuse" is an injury modifier, not a DR modifier. Therefore, if cover DR for diffuse objects is not included on RAW 408, then diffuse objects most likely lack cover DR.
On second thought, a diffuse target could (maybe, at most) give you 2 HP of “cover DR”, provided that’s the amount of damage a diffuse target can receive (i.e. absorb) from non area-effect-cone-explosion attacks. Here I am stretching the "Injury to Unliving, Homogenous, and Diffuse Targets" from RAW 380.
My exception would be shadow-form (non-diffuse), because IMO that’s a physical creature with a “proto-injury modifier”. It is a thin layer of cover DR providing you with half flesh HP for the matter of calculating over-penetration and it can absorb up to half the original damage.