Zombie DR bug?

[Athon]

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Your strike bounces off a half-decayed parishioner!

To the best of my knowledge, these should be coded as human zombies, with a DR slashing/5 and an AC of only 11 (-1 Dex, +2 natural). I was wearing a mace at the time.

For the record, I was killing goblins (AC 15) no problem.

Source: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/zombie.htm

[Brar]

What is the bug here?

You are wearing a mace and it's DR is only bypass by slashing...
I fail to see a probleme here.

[Athon]

Whoops. Brain fart. Thought only slashing was reduced. My bad.

[Keltorn]

It's a very easy mistake to make, confusing what the word after the slash represents. So easy that it has been made by D&D's authors on occasion (they even called it a brain fart). It looks like the DR for zombies is supposed to be beaten by slashing as adventures must cut away the piles of flesh that make up a zombie, so this should be working just fine.

[Athon]

It's a very easy mistake to make, confusing what the word after the slash represents. So easy that it has been made by D&D's authors on occasion (they even called it a brain fart). It looks like the DR for zombies is supposed to be beaten by slashing as adventures must cut away the piles of flesh that make up a zombie, so this should be working just fine.

I'm just disappointed in that I knew this and I still made the blunder. Long day of work.