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As a monk, can you make a melee attack roll using your Strength modifier, but roll damage with your Dexterity modifier?
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I want to know if you can make an attack roll with one stat, but deal the damage with another. As a monk, can you make a melee attack roll using your Strength modifier, but roll damage with your Dexterity modifier?
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I want to know if you can make an attack roll with one stat, but deal the damage with another. As a monk, can you make a melee attack roll using your Strength modifier, but roll damage with your Dexterity modifier?
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I want to know if you can make an attack roll with one stat, but deal the damage with another. As a monk, can you make a melee attack roll using your Strength modifier, but roll damage with your Dexterity modifier?
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I want to know if you can make an attack roll with one stat, but deal the damage with another. As a monk, can you make a melee attack roll using your Strength modifier, but roll damage with your Dexterity modifier?
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You must use the same ability modifier for damage and attack.
Basic Rules, Damage and Healing
When attacking with a weapon, you add your ability modifier--the same modifier used for the attack roll--to the damage.
The practiced, calculated, almost-choreographed fighting of a monk is pretty much the opposite of the raging brute force and ignorance of a barbarian. Of course, YMMV.
Impact of House-ruling this
RAW, Barbarians must make a decision (STR, DEX, CON, you can't have them all!) with consequences for their choice. Allowing a character to pick the best of STR and DEX at the same time makes the choice meaningless and adds yet more value to an already-valuable ability.
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No
You must use the same ability modifier for damage and attack.
Basic Rules, Damage and Healing
When attacking with a weapon, you add your ability modifier--the same modifier used for the attack roll--to the damage.
The practiced, calculated, almost-choreographed fighting of a monk is pretty much the opposite of the raging brute force and ignorance of a barbarian. Of course, YMMV.
Impact of House-ruling this
RAW, Barbarians must make a decision (STR, DEX, CON, you can't have them all!) with consequences for their choice. Allowing a character to pick the best of STR and DEX at the same time makes the choice meaningless and adds yet more value to an already-valuable ability.
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You must use the same ability modifier for damage and attack.
Basic Rules, Damage and Healing
When attacking with a weapon, you add your ability modifier--the same modifier used for the attack roll--to the damage.
The practiced, calculated, almost-choreographed fighting of a monk is pretty much the opposite of the raging brute force and ignorance of a barbarian. Of course, YMMV.
Impact of House-ruling this
RAW, Barbarians must make a decision (STR, DEX, CON, you can't have them all!) with consequences for their choice. Allowing a character to pick the best of STR and DEX at the same time makes the choice meaningless and adds yet more value to an already-valuable ability.
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No
You must use the same ability modifier for damage and attack.
Basic Rules, Damage and Healing
When attacking with a weapon, you add your ability modifier--the same modifier used for the attack roll--to the damage.
The practiced, calculated, almost-choreographed fighting of a monk is pretty much the opposite of the raging brute force and ignorance of a barbarian. Of course, YMMV.
Impact of House-ruling this
RAW, Barbarians must make a decision (STR, DEX, CON, you can't have them all!) with consequences for their choice. Allowing a character to pick the best of STR and DEX at the same time makes the choice meaningless and adds yet more value to an already-valuable ability.
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You must use the same ability modifier for damage and attack.
Basic Rules, Damage and Healing
When attacking with a weapon, you add your ability modifier--the same modifier used for the attack roll--to the damage.
The practiced, calculated, almost-choreographed fighting of a monk is pretty much the opposite of the raging brute force and ignorance of a barbarian. Of course, YMMV.
Impact of House-ruling this
RAW, Barbarians must make a decision (STR, DEX, CON, you can't have them all!) with consequences for their choice. Allowing a character to pick the best of STR and DEX at the same time makes the choice meaningless and adds yet more value to an already-valuable ability.
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