Strength
Strength measures bodily power, athletic training, and the extent to which you can exert raw physical force.
What Strength Does
Strength affects many physical activities and abilities:
- Melee Attack Rolls: When you make an attack with a melee weapon like a sword, mace, or axe, you add your Strength modifier to the attack roll.
- Damage Rolls: When you hit with a Strength-based melee weapon, you add your Strength modifier to the damage roll.
- Athletics Skill: Your Strength modifier affects Athletics checks, which cover difficult situations you encounter while climbing, jumping, or swimming.
- Carrying Capacity: Your Strength score determines how much weight you can carry, push, drag, or lift.
Strength Checks
A Strength check can model any attempt to lift, push, pull, or break something, to force your body through a space, or to otherwise apply brute force to a situation. The Athletics skill reflects aptitude in certain kinds of Strength checks.
Common Uses
- Athletics: Swimming across a swift river, climbing a cliff, or jumping across a pit
- Raw Strength: Breaking down a door, bending bars, or stopping a rolling boulder
Example Difficulties
| DC | Difficulty | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Easy | Climb a rope or swim in calm water |
| 15 | Medium | Break down a wooden door or climb a difficult cliff |
| 20 | Hard | Lift a heavy gate or swim against a strong current |
| 25 | Very Hard | Bend iron bars or break through a stone wall |