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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 6474770" data-attributes="member: 6776887">Don't forget that the strength based numbers are divided by 2 for each size below medium.  The house cat can carry 11 lbs by its strength score instead of 45 lbs..As for the OP, I think some of the other people got it right.  There are several creatures with 1 negative ability score (Strength or Dexterity) but no creature that I can find has a negative attack bonus.  Those same creatures that are at a +0 attack bonus also do 1 damage.  This suggests that there is a hard limit of +0 attack bonus and 1 damage when creating a creature stat block.These low numbers aren't my favorite examples of things not following normal conventions.  The carrion crawler has a +8 attack bonus for each of its 2 attacks.  By the numbers, the attack bonus should be +4, but the creature used to have something like 8 attacks, so they collapsed the attacks into 2 and bumped the attack bonus.</blockquote>