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

[Rabain]

I agree that Jan (after drinking a potion of storm giant strength) should receive bonuses. I don't see how you derived the opposite from my text. Perhaps I had expressed myself inadequately.

Jan will have bonuses because his strength is *modified*, but this doesn't mean that a storm giant (already rolling 15d6 for his damage) should still gain another 12 points of damage bonus for having a 24 strength score. I thought this was what aigleborgne was trying to suggest (and if so I still disagree).

Yes a storm giant would receive his bonus for having 24 strength. The argument could then move to whether his base damage should be 15d6 or something more realistic which would include the fact that a lot of the damage in that 15d6 is due to his strength. So perhaps a storm giant with 24 strength could have a strength bonus if his damage was 10d6 instead of 15d6.

I still think str bonus to damage is better separated from base damage.