Strenght bonus for monsters Options

[aigleborgne]

Hello,

Players use strenght bonus for melee weapons.

What about monsters?
I know bonus is applying for claw's type weapon, but for bite?
I have looked into many monsters in BG2, and some does have it, some doesn't.

For example, greater basilisk have 3 attack:
- petrification
- claw with poison (with strenght bonus)
- bite (no strenght bonus)

What do you think about that?

This post has been edited by aigleborgne: Dec 18 2005, 05:41 PM

[Sikret]

Strength bonus is always applicable when a creature (monster or not) attacks by weapons.

The fact that monsters can inflict such noticeable ammounts of damage with their bare hands or claws, is at least partly because of their strength. No additional strength bonus is actually needed unless they take weapons instead of using their claws.

In other words, montsers have (in a way) already received their strength bonus by the fact that they can inflict such amounts of damage wihout using any weapon. For example, consider a storm giant who inflicts 15d6 points of damage per hit. Do you really suggest to add another 12 points of damage because of his 24 strength?! I don't think that it would be a good suggestion.