D&D General Animals have high Constitution

[James Gasik]

Interestingly, our ancestors were persistence predators, who kept chasing prey animals until they simply couldn't run away anymore. So in theory, humans are among the all-stars for Constitution. Sadly, most people are cream puffs these days.

 

[greg kaye]

Animals in our world typically have high constitution because the physical constitutes the main "fitness" by which creatures sustain their "survival" in their evolution.
In the more recent evolution of humans, it has also been our smarts that have enabled our success and, in some cases, even the less healthy have been able to survive.
It's not that animal constitution is high.
It's just that human physical fitness can be relatively low.
Let's face it, if we were dumped in the wilderness and deprived of smart, tactical options, we wouldn't typically survive.

 

[le Redoutable]

Actually, I think that animals usually have a problem about their diaphragm;
call it abs if you like;

 

[le Redoutable]

On the flip side, most animals actually have terrible stamina compared to humans.

Its one of our secret evolutionary advantages. Human could often just run down other animals, we weren't as fast, but we could go much longer than they could without fatiguing.

ok, perhaps it is abs ( breathing )

 

[Savage Wombat]

In the real life the elephants can't jump.

In Icewind Dale I had the PCs fight an awakened Mammoth with druid levels, just so it could cast Jump and leap off a hilltop at them.

 

[Celebrim]

They don't really. They just often have various bonus feats and abilities that aren't usually reflected in their stat blocks. Indeed, I'd argue that historically most animals are given too high of constitution and that the designers then often use kludge fixes like 1/2 HD or something that wouldn't be necessary with more realistic CON scores.

 

[Charlaquin]

most animals and plants can regenerate to some extent (even humans), it is simply called "healing." However, if you are talking about regenerating lost limbs, then crocodiles cannot do that. Some lizards can regenerate lost tails, but not limbs. The real champion vertebrate regenerators are amphibians. Some of those can regenerate lost limbs.

Also, for the lizards that can regrow lost tails, doing so has a huge energy cost, and it’s very common for the regrown tails to have significant defects.

Basically, losing large body parts is really bad for animals, and even if they can be regrown, they really shouldn’t unless the alternative is getting eaten.

 

[Charlaquin]

On the flip side, most animals actually have terrible stamina compared to humans.

Yeah, being able to sweat is a huge evolutionary advantage, up there with bipedalism and opposable thumbs.

 

[le Redoutable]

What about knees , and feet ?

 

[le Redoutable]

On the flip side, most animals actually have terrible stamina compared to humans.

Its one of our secret evolutionary advantages. Human could often just run down other animals, we weren't as fast, but we could go much longer than they could without fatiguing.

Otr perhaps Hunters drain stamina??