Realistic Human DR

[kirbwarrior]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

Nominally the human skull provides DR 2 for the brain but that's perhaps a bit cinematic as well, since living bone isn't as rigid as dry bone and any injury which hits the head hard enough to inflict HP damage as the potential to inflict Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). At best, it provides DR 1 vs. kinetic attacks (cr, cut, imp, pi), DR 2 vs. burn and corrosive attacks.

I'm not even sure it would actually count as any DR. In more realistic campaigns another GM friend ruled that if you take 1 or 2 damage to the skull, it doesn't count as hitting the brain but any damage past that does count instead of the skull providing DR. That might be a little overly fragile, though.