Ability Modifiers

Post by **Rary** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:21 am

I was reading up on rangers one day and started to read the NWN manual. It gives you the ability modifiers all the way to 40+ giving like +15, +16, etc.

I thought +12 or +13 was max? Or is that just max from items.

Terpeh · Post by **Terpeh** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:21 am

i dont even know what ability modifier is -_-

Rafael · Post by **Rafael** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:38 am

The Max Ability modiffer you get preepic is RDD with 44 str that's 17 ability modifer, else the max ability modifer is 13.

Musekaze · Post by **Musekaze** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:37 pm

the max from items/buffs is 13. the max from a buff is 5. RDD is a different story.

Post by **Rary** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:02 pm

I was wondering because as a barb you could get like a 25 str? then advance with buffs and items from there.

Casas · Post by **Casas** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:17 pm

+12 is max from items and spells.. it keeps going, in the manual, because epic you can select feats on top of the +10 ability points for being L40.

A95 · Post by **A95** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:06 pm

Max Ability is STR.

19 STR +5(levels) 24 +10(RDD) 34 +12(items/spells) 44. It stops at 44 pre epic no matter what. Mountain (Barb RDD) I tried using rage with 42 str and it stopped at 44.

Casas · Post by **Casas** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:14 pm

Your math is wrong, and RDDs only get 8 STR.. strangely evens it out to the max STR.

Post by **Rary** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:42 am

Well the manual is original nwn, so I don't think they had the epic ones in there.

I thought str had a cap, but maybe thats only buffs. Obviously you only get so many points to put in str like maybe 20 or 21 for a halforc, then +5 by levels. However adding 24 more str by items to 49 doesn't seem right either. So thats why I'm confused on that.

Unless 34 is the cap str regardless unless you're a RDD.

Rafael · Post by **Rafael** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:11 am

The magical bonus to abilities is capped at 12, and the max usefull str unless rdd is 36(You could get 37 but that doesn't give a thing)

Post by **Rary** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:21 am

Rafael wrote:The magical bonus to abilities is capped at 12, and the max usefull str unless rdd is 36(You could get 37 but that doesn't give a thing)

So you could get 60 str then?

36+24, 24 being the +12 by magical means.

A95 · Post by **A95** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:02 pm

The spells 12 max is also tied to the items.

My ranger uses +9 dex in items and +5 from cats grace.

You can't get more than +12 via items or spells.

Musekaze · Post by **Musekaze** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:58 pm

exaclty, hes got the rihgt math there.

Rafael · Post by **Rafael** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:26 pm

I posted the max ability with the +12 magical Bonus forgot to mention it. Nope Rary the Highest preepic str is 45(rdd) but it's useless so caunt it 44 so 34 +8rdd str +12magic/items.

Post by **Rary** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:05 pm

Ok, was wondering cause my barb gets +13 str mod after rage. If I wear giant belts and rage then it stops at +13 str mod.