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If a PC's ability score increases due to an item, does it increase the corresponding modifier for the ability score or any skills/attacks?
How does becoming undead interact with Constitution score increases?Is the Alert Feat better than an Ability Score Improvement for a Rogue?Can I make ability checks when my ability score is lower than the DC?What check is required to break open a chest?How do ability score improvements improve modifiers?Do “Gauntlets of Ogre Power” keep my STR at 19 when I'm attacked by Shadows?How unbalanced is it to hand out Feats/ASIs in place of Magic Items?Can you benefit from a Hammer of Thunderbolts’s Strength increase by holding it with something else than your hands?What ability score does a Hexblade's Pact Weapon use for attack and damage when wielded by another character?
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I'm a new DM. One of the PCs obtained gauntlets of ogre power, which raise the Strength score of the creature wearing and attuned to them to 19. Does this increase the modifier or any of the skill checks or damage rolls as well?
I'm not sure how having higher Strength is helpful if it doesn't.
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I'm not sure how having higher Strength is helpful if it doesn't.
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I'm not sure how having higher Strength is helpful if it doesn't.
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The modifier is directly linked to the stat, so a STR of 19 has a modifier of +4. That just happens automatically.
STR based attacks will therefore benefit from the higher modifier.
Skill checks will improve if they use the STR modifier as it has improved.
Basically, the modifier instantly increases to match the new total of the stat then that flows over into attack rolls, damage rolls and ability checks/saves that use that modifier.
From the SRD:
When a character makes an attack roll, the two most common modifiers to the roll are an ability modifier and the character's proficiency bonus. When a monster makes an attack roll, it uses whatever modifier is provided in its stat block.
Ability Modifier. The ability modifier used for a melee weapon attack
is Strength
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Thank you. Your answer got me to look for a table in the PHB, and there is one (pg 173)! It shows modifiers based on ability scores. Our group used the premade PCs in the starter set, so having not made a character from scratch, was not sure how this worked. Thanks! –
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The modifier is directly linked to the stat, so a STR of 19 has a modifier of +4. That just happens automatically.
STR based attacks will therefore benefit from the higher modifier.
Skill checks will improve if they use the STR modifier as it has improved.
Basically, the modifier instantly increases to match the new total of the stat then that flows over into attack rolls, damage rolls and ability checks/saves that use that modifier.
From the SRD:
When a character makes an attack roll, the two most common modifiers to the roll are an ability modifier and the character's proficiency bonus. When a monster makes an attack roll, it uses whatever modifier is provided in its stat block.
Ability Modifier. The ability modifier used for a melee weapon attack
is Strength
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Thank you. Your answer got me to look for a table in the PHB, and there is one (pg 173)! It shows modifiers based on ability scores. Our group used the premade PCs in the starter set, so having not made a character from scratch, was not sure how this worked. Thanks! –
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The modifier is directly linked to the stat, so a STR of 19 has a modifier of +4. That just happens automatically.
STR based attacks will therefore benefit from the higher modifier.
Skill checks will improve if they use the STR modifier as it has improved.
Basically, the modifier instantly increases to match the new total of the stat then that flows over into attack rolls, damage rolls and ability checks/saves that use that modifier.
From the SRD:
When a character makes an attack roll, the two most common modifiers to the roll are an ability modifier and the character's proficiency bonus. When a monster makes an attack roll, it uses whatever modifier is provided in its stat block.
Ability Modifier. The ability modifier used for a melee weapon attack
is Strength
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Thank you. Your answer got me to look for a table in the PHB, and there is one (pg 173)! It shows modifiers based on ability scores. Our group used the premade PCs in the starter set, so having not made a character from scratch, was not sure how this worked. Thanks! –
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The modifier is directly linked to the stat, so a STR of 19 has a modifier of +4. That just happens automatically.
STR based attacks will therefore benefit from the higher modifier.
Skill checks will improve if they use the STR modifier as it has improved.
Basically, the modifier instantly increases to match the new total of the stat then that flows over into attack rolls, damage rolls and ability checks/saves that use that modifier.
From the SRD:
When a character makes an attack roll, the two most common modifiers to the roll are an ability modifier and the character's proficiency bonus. When a monster makes an attack roll, it uses whatever modifier is provided in its stat block.
Ability Modifier. The ability modifier used for a melee weapon attack
is Strength
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The modifier is directly linked to the stat, so a STR of 19 has a modifier of +4. That just happens automatically.
STR based attacks will therefore benefit from the higher modifier.
Skill checks will improve if they use the STR modifier as it has improved.
Basically, the modifier instantly increases to match the new total of the stat then that flows over into attack rolls, damage rolls and ability checks/saves that use that modifier.
From the SRD:
When a character makes an attack roll, the two most common modifiers to the roll are an ability modifier and the character's proficiency bonus. When a monster makes an attack roll, it uses whatever modifier is provided in its stat block.
Ability Modifier. The ability modifier used for a melee weapon attack
is Strength
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Thank you. Your answer got me to look for a table in the PHB, and there is one (pg 173)! It shows modifiers based on ability scores. Our group used the premade PCs in the starter set, so having not made a character from scratch, was not sure how this worked. Thanks! –
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Thank you. Your answer got me to look for a table in the PHB, and there is one (pg 173)! It shows modifiers based on ability scores. Our group used the premade PCs in the starter set, so having not made a character from scratch, was not sure how this worked. Thanks! –
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Thank you. Your answer got me to look for a table in the PHB, and there is one (pg 173)! It shows modifiers based on ability scores. Our group used the premade PCs in the starter set, so having not made a character from scratch, was not sure how this worked. Thanks! –
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