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Tagged with ability-scores racial-traits
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Does the Feral Tiefling still use Charisma as its spellcasting ability for the Infernal Legacy trait?
I'm new in this world of D&D. I was reading through the Player's Handbook and decided to create a character following the process in Chapter 1 (Step-by-Step Characters).
The Tiefling caught my ...
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Can I change my choices for racial ability scores after play has started?
I'm still fairly new to the game, and I'm working out the schematics of my character. I play a half-elf character, and I was wondering: can racial bonuses be changed once the characters been made, or ...
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Does the envoy warforged's Ability Score Increase trait give you a +1 to Con and +1 to two other ability scores? Or just +1 to two ability scores?
Does the envoy warforged (from UA: Eberron Races) get a +1 to Con and +1 to two other ability scores (e.g. Dex and Wis)?
Or only +1 to two ability scores total (e.g. Dex and Wis, or Dex and Con)?
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Does the Warforged's Heavy Plating AC calculation have a minimum required Strength score?
I want to play a warforged fighter/wizard, and I was wondering because of the confusing armor explanation for warforged.
Do I have to have a strength of 15 or 13 for the Heavy Plating, since heavy ...
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Does a PC cursed by Lycanthropy still retain racial bonuses to the same ability score?
This is mainly about a player who was bit by a Werebear recently. He wants to embrace being a Werebear and he's a Human Variant Fighter (GWM Feat) with 17 Strength. Being a Werebear he gains a ...
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Do the Zariel tiefling's subrace bonuses stack with the tiefling's regular racial bonuses?
I'm rather new to D&D and I've been trying to create a Tiefling Paladin. When I looked through the subraces, I saw the Zariel tiefling and thought it to be a good idea, which my friends agreed to.
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Can a Half-Elf choose the same Ability Score for the +1's of Ability Score Increase?
The Half-Elf has a trait called Ability Score Increase which states:
Your Charisma score increases by 2, and two other ability scores of your choice increase by 1.
Do these "other ability scores" ...
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Does changing race allow for the increase of ability scores beyond 20?
The reincarnate spell replaces your racial traits, within which ability score increases are included. Is a racial ability score increase capped at 20 like a class ASI?
For example, if I have 20 ...
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How do variant racial heritages work?
Consider the angelkin aasimar. If I make an angelkin character which ability score bonuses do I get? The normal aasimar ones, the angelkin ones, or both? What about the other abilities listed?
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Does a new Kobold PC have a −4 or −6 Strength adjustment?
Kobolds in Pathfinder have the "Greater weakness" racial trait which adds the stat modification of −4 Str, +2 Dex and −2 Con.
I'm assuming it takes this effect plus the stat adjustment for being size ...
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Will I lose my undead traits when I'm resurrected?
I have a ghost template in our new horror adventure.
If I die (as a ghost) and after that am resurrected, I will return to being human (my race before becoming a ghost). Will I also lose all of the ...
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When does the Charisma bonus from Fire Affinity apply?
Per the SRD:
Fire Affinity: Ifrit sorcerers with the elemental (fire) bloodline treat their Charisma score as 2 points higher for all sorcerer spells and class abilities...
When does that +2 ...
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