Damage Resistance

Damage Resistance (DR) is a derived statistic in the SPECIAL character system that reduces damage done to a critter.

Any damage taken is reduced by this percentage, which means that if you wear an armor with 20 DR (Like the Leather Jacket) will reduce damage taken by 20%. Your Damage Resistance is, by then, only reduced by some perks or by armors.

Damage Resistance is a percentage, unlike the Damage Threshold (DT) that reduces a certain amount of damages before the Damage Resistance, that is at maximum 90%.

Note that armors feature a different Damage Resistance (And Damage Threshold) number for each type of damages taken (Normal, Electrical, Laser, etc.).

See also

• The Toughness perk that adds 5% to DR and +2 to DT.
• The armors list that contains their DR and DT number.