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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6476439" data-attributes="member: 6787503"><p>I found the pertinent passage in the PH, p. 192 where it spells out that characters and monsters differ somewhat as far as what the "appropriate modifiers" are to the attack roll. For characters, it says that, "the two most common modifiers to the roll are an ability modifier and the character's proficiency bonus." But that a monster, "uses whatever modifier is provided in its stat block." So it seems like the "simple answer" is pretty much correct as far as this passage goes in creating two distinct categories. Notice, however, that for the character, it doesn't preclude other, less common modifiers, and for monsters it only says that modifiers will be provided. Like a lot of other rules in 5e, this is pretty vague. It doesn't, for instance, say that monsters do not ever use the basic formula of ability mod. + proficiency, and when I look at most of the stat blocks I find that they are for the most part conforming to the same "common modifiers." So I understand that there could be other modifiers, besides the two, but in the case of the cat, or any of these other creatures that don't conform, what might those modifiers be, if they aren't a multiple of the proficiency bonus?</p></blockquote><p></p>