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The thing I really don't like is the fact that it comes up way too often for large creatures. I mean, when two gargantuan creatures are fighting each other they totally smack each other so far that they never get to full attack - it's just charge-bounce.... charge-bounce. The amount of damage...

No. The general rule is stated on page 9 of the PHB: that a Constitution penalty can never drop the results of any hit die below 1. This rule is restated in the DMG under Ability Score Loss as it is highly relevent to Ability Score Loss as relates to Constitution. I don't have to extrapolate...

Huh? Are you being deliberately obtuse? That's a special rule of Constitution. It's on page 9 of the PHB. No. It's a reinforcement of the fact that the Con Modifier rules always apply. In your example of the Rogue with rolls of 6,6,6,1,1,1 - if he took 2 points of Con damage to a Con of 6...

They are mathematical shortcuts so people don't have to look up the chart every time. Some of the strength bonuses helpfully remind you that you now add +2 more to-hit and some of the dexterity bonuses helpfully remind you to add +2 to AC. This doesn't mean that the modifiers are divided up in...

Of course not. Constitution modifiers to hit points are only a roll modifier, and they can't reduce any of the rolls to less than 1. So Bestow Curse can't kill someone unless they are already damaged to the point where they would already be dead with their new hit points. You seem to think...

No. The Constitution bonus is applied as a single monolithic bonus to each hit die roll. Just like Intelligence is applied as a single monolithic modifier to each Search check roll. There is nothing whatsoever that would lead us to believe that Constitution modifiers in any way break the...

Actually - no you can't. Kindly learn the rules before arguing them. -Frank

Actually, the modifier is applied to specific roll (page 8). That roll is "Each roll of a hit die" (page 9). So your counter example is trivial and false. I'm not saying it's difficult - it's just that the rules never ever tell you to do that. The math to make things work like that wouldn't be...

Some fun ones we never see: Checked: Can't move if on the ground. Flying creatures are hurled backwards. Disabled: Character only gets a MEA or a Standard action each turn. Movement is at half speed. Taking any Standard Action causes the character one point of damage. Dying: Like unconcious...

The answers on Shadow Conjuration have varied over the years. The most often, and certainly most playable, answer with regards to the wall of shadow stone is that it lasts forever and has 60% as many hit points as a "real" wall of stone. Passing through it some of the time and not others is...

3rd edition had some complicated rules involving handedness that were not fairly enforced or coherently written down. The FAQ's answer regarding handedness, for example, probably goes in with the FAQ's answer regarding Expert Tactician - because it is not supported by the written rules. In 3.5...

But your charge action hasn't ended yet. If you were performing a Ride-by-Attack charge, enemies along your path could get the "readied against a charge" bonus because you are still charging. Your charge isn't over until your action is. The cleave takes place before the action terminates. So...

Exactly. That's been on the table since 3rd edition. no. That's completely different reasoning. The Fighter with two longswords can WWA and hit any opponent with either longsword. Not with both weapons, however. He gets one attack against each opponent he can reach. Any of those attacks could...

And of course, if hit points actually worked on the delta system that many people have simplified them to - we'd have recreational blood drain. Consider: the minimum number of hit points you can get for going up a level is 1. If you actually gained 1 hit point every time you gained 2 points of...

Yes it is. It's the desription of Constitution and attribute bonuses as well as the description of bonuses and stacking. Pages 6 and 8 of the PHB as well as the DMG's detailing of bonus types and stacking. Gaining "+1 Hit Point a level" wouldn't even stack with the 2 extra hit points per level...

Of course. Remember, the TWF penalties don't come from using two weapons in the same round, they come from attacking with both weapons simultaneously with the same attack. So, for example, you don't take two weapon fighting penalties when you throw a javelin and then quickdraw another javelin...

When you have a reach weapon and monk unarmed attacks - you threaten at both 5' and 10'. So what? This is still massively inferior to just having a Spiked Chain. It does the same thing with only one feat invested instead of all these funky class levels. Further, 3.5 Whirlwind is craptastic, as...

That's not possible. +4 con does not, in fact, equal +2 hit points per level. Look it up - Constitution Modifiers are added whole to each hit die. That means that adding 4 Constitution replaces your entire Con Modifier with a larger one. Not +2, just the one as defined on the chart on page 8...

Well, the idea is that a Pokemaster can be placed into a normal D&D game and still work. Further, you can put Pokemon into a normal D&D game and have them function normally. In order to work both ways, the Pokemaster has to be able to function when he never encounters a "Bulbasaur" and instead...

Both. Skip Williams says that Polymorph's changing of the Con Modifier is itself sufficient to change hit points unless the change in Constitution came with a rider that said that change didn't itself change hit points. Since Polymorph doesn't say that - the change in Constitution can end up...