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* In ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire'', capital ships and bigger things get damage reduction from two sources: armour and shields (while they're up). Between the damage reduction and [[HealingFactor self-repair]], putting down a capital ship and higher is a pretty tough task.

* In ''Spycraft'', damage reduction is the armor mechanic, with "armor" and "armor penetration" forming a parallel defensive system to the usual d20 armor class stuff.

The TropeMaker here is a little hard to place, as many/most TabletopGames miniatures games use some sort of Armor Rating to reduce damage, but the TropeCodifier is without a doubt ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (third Ed and above), which uses it to a large extent, and is responsible for the tradition of "magic fire beats DR." In fact, you could argue that the TropeMaker is ''RealLife'', because this trope is basically what humans invented armour to do.

* Armor in ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' works by removing a percentage of damage from incoming attacks, with the removed damage being subtracted from the armor.

* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' has the "Suppression" trait, unlocked by maxing out the Health stat, which reduces any HP damage by one, to a minimum of one. One boss has a 5HP attack that has both a flag for ignoring all defenses (MercyInvincibility, Suppression, etc.) and a special code for not ignoring Suppression after all.

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* NewHorizon has armor... and specific attacks penetrate the armor, as well as attacks that go overboard.

** {{Exalted}} also has a "hardness" trait for armour, meaning that if the raw (pre-soak) damage doesn't reach the threshold designated by the hardness of the armour, no damage at all is rolled. This, however, is a fairly low number, and if the raw damage reaches or surpasses this threshold it isn't taken into account at all, instead you have to soak for any damage reduction.

The TropeMaker here is a little hard to place, as many/most TabletopGames miniatures games use some sort of Armor Rating to reduce damage, but the TropeCodifier is without a doubt ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (third Ed and above), which uses it to a large extent, and is responsible for the tradition of "magic fire beats DR."

* In ''VideoGame/{{ADOM}}'', this is how armour works: it mostly grants "Protection Value", and your Protection Value is your amount of damage resistance. (There is also "Defensive Value", which makes you harder to hit.)

** The ''Long War'' GameMod adds a specific damage reduction with its own icon, granted mainly to machine/armored enemies as well as units in cover.

* In ''[[TabletopGame/{{PoniesAndParasprites}} Ponies and Parasprites]]'' damage is reduced in two ways. The first is via use of "Buffer Exhaustion", which allows a character to absorb a certain amount of damage before they are affected by it. The second (such as the Earth Pony's ''Tough as Nails'' ability and Celestia's ''Inescapable Corona of Justice'') simply reduces the amount of incoming damage. These two abilities explicitly stack with one another.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'', this is the purpose of armor for players and enemies alike. Unlike most examples, it's a percentage-based modifier, with the fraction of damage received decreasing asymptotically as armor increases. Notably, it only reduces the damage taken to health; shields get no benefit whatsoever. It also alters the effectiveness of different damage types. There are still ways around it: Corrosive procs, Corrosive Projection, and certain Warframe Augments can permanently reduce enemy armor, while [[InfinityPlusOneElement Finisher damage]] ignores it outright.

* In ''[[TabletopGame/{{PoniesAndParasprites}} Ponies and Parasprites]]'' damage is reduced in two ways. The first is via use of "Buffer Exhaustion", which allows a character to absorb a certain amount of damage before they are effected by it. The second (such as the Earth Pony's ''Tough as Nails'' ability and Celestia's ''Inescapable Corona of Justice'') simply reduces the amount of incoming damage. These two abilities explicitly stack with one another.

* In ''VideoGame/{{ADOM}}'', this is how armour works: it mostly grants "Protection Value", and your Protection Value is your amount of damage resistance. (There is also "Defensive Value", which makes you harder to hit.)

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* Characters in ''VideoGame/NexusWar'' have a Soak value for each type of damage, reducing the damage received by a flat amount. For example, a character wearing a chain-mail shirt would suffer reduced slashing damage from a sword strike but take full damage from an acid spell. Resistance is a percentile reduction applied after Soak, only available through certain skills. ScratchDamage applies in that the target will always suffer at least 1 point of damage if not completely immune to the damage type.

The TropeMaker here is a little hard to place, as many/most TabletopGames miniatures games use some sort of Armor Rating to reduce damage, but the TropeCodifier is without a doubt ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', which uses it to a large extent, and is responsible for the tradition of "magic fire beats DR."

* ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'', ''TabletopGame/RogueTrader'', and ''TabletopGame/{{Deathwatch}}'' all have this in the form of both Armor and Toughness. Very few attacks ignore this, though many weapons have Armor Penetration, which ignores a certain amount of Armor. Their parent game, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', uses a combination of Toughness Values and Armor Saves, though it's a certain chance to ignore damage, rather than reducing it. The FeelNoPain rule is described in the fluff as a more straight example, but again it's an additional chance to ignore damage[[note]]going by Dungeons and Dragons again, it's basically [=DR33% /=] [[ChunkySalsaRule Instant Death weapons]][[/note]].

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' makes extensive use of this trope. Damage reduction is generally not provided by wearing armor, even magical, and is usually an ability granted to monsters. Said monsters oftentimes have a weakness that bypasses their DR, usually written as "DR ''Value / Weakness''"[[labelnote:*]]Read as: Damage reduction: the first X points of damage are completely ignored. If the damage source is from the weakness, however, take full damage[[/labelnote]], such as the Superman image above. Some materials or enchantments do provide DR on equipment and some class features also grant it.