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If a paladin has a negative Charisma modifier, how many times can they use the Divine Sense feature (per long rest)?
The description of the paladin's Divine Sense feature says, in part:
You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 + your Charisma modifier. When you finish a long rest, you regain all ...
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Can the Order of the Mutant blood hunter increase an ability score past 20 using their mutagens?
I am playing an Artificer 5/Blood Hunter 2. I was thinking of taking another level of Blood Hunter and picking the Order of the Mutant. The Mutagencraft feature lets me concoct and consume a mutagen ...
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How do Modifier-Based Features and Modifier-Setting Items Interact?
For a feature that is limited by your ability score modifier, how does usage count change if your ability score changes midday?
The specific scenario in question is Flash of Genius on our negative ...
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How to calculate constitution based armor class for a Loxodon barbarian in 5e? [duplicate]
Loxodons have natural armor that is calculated using "12+con_mod"
Barbarians have unarmored defence calculated using "10+dex_mod+con_mod"
One of my players wants to be a Loxodon ...
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How does an in-combat change to a bard's Charisma Score affect its available Bardic Inspirations?
I'm not exactly sure how changes to ability scores in combat affect abilities that have uses based on the modifier for that that skill.
For example take a bard with a Charisma score of 18 that has ...
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What happens if a character's stats are lowered, reducing the number of spells they can prepare? [duplicate]
What happens if a character's stats are lowered, reducing the number of spells they can prepare?
Say a level 1 cleric has a Wisdom score of 18. According to the Spellcasting feature , they can ...
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What happens if the Intelligence of an undead affected by the Necromancy wizard's Command Undead feature changes after it gets controlled?
This question asked about the impact of Feebleminding an undead before using the School of Necromancy wizard's Command Undead feature; it seems that this would be an effective tactic for making an ...
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Does the Hexblade warlock's Hex Warrior feature change Booming Blade to use your Charisma modifier?
Since the Hexblade warlock's Hex Warrior feature changes your pact weapon's attack modifier to use Charisma instead, does it also turn booming blade's modifier from Strength to Charisma?
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If the Cavalier fighter's Strength changes, does the number of special attacks against marked creatures change as well?
The Cavalier fighter (Xanathar's Guide to Everything, p. 30) gets the Unwavering Mark ability which lets you mark a creature and states (emphasis mine):
In addition, if a creature marked by you ...
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What happens if the Order of the Mutant blood hunter's celerity mutagen would reduce their Wisdom score to 0 or less?
Suppose I have an Order of the Mutant blood hunter who has a Wisdom score of 3, and is level 9 (or greater) so has a "mutagen bonus" of 3+.
If this character uses the celerity mutagen, the ...
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Can Elegant Courtier cause a penalty to your Charisma (Persuasion) with negative wisdom?
The Samurai fighter subclass (Xanathar's Guide to Everything, p. 31) has the level 7 feature Elegant Courtier, part of which states:
Whenever you make a Charisma (Persuasion) check, you gain a ...
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Can you ever use an ASI to increase an Ability Score above 20?
My question stems from this one: Does the Star card from the Deck of Many Things increase your ability score above 20?
How exactly does increasing an ability score above 20, by any means, work at all?...
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Can a character choose to not apply an ability score modifier from a class feature if it would be a disadvantage?
Still exploring a few options to create an NPC in my Pathfinder campaign. To summarize : a half-orc with all mental ability scores as low as possible for a newly created character (he is supposed to ...
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Does an Empiricist Investigator HAVE to use Intelligence for skills?
I'm going to be playing a Dex-based Empiricist, whose Dex will have one modifier higher than Int in some cases, plus Extracts. But, on the PFSRD for Empiricist:
...an empiricist uses his ...
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Does the Wizard Theurge Tradition use Int instead of Wis?
According to the Theurge tradition in Unearthed Arcana, you gain the Channel Divinity and other abilities of the Cleric domain you are mimicking. Several of these specify to use your "cleric level" or ...
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