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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 3810454" data-attributes="member: 5122">Not at all.  As I've stated several times, it's entirely possible that the designers intended the rule as Hypersmurf would have it.  When I say "it's perfectly clear," I'm simply talking about the sentence which unambiguously, without restriction, says to strip racial modifiers.  Not certain racial modifiers.  All of them.What, then, of the preceding sentence that says that Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution might be affected by the new body?  Again, simple and straightforward, and in the very next sentence it tells you how ... by adding the modifiers from the chart.  Not only does that instruction come in the same paragraph, as it should, it comes in the next sentence, albeit in the second part of a compound instruction.Can the rule be interpreted two ways?  Clearly.  Only one of them, however, conforms with the literal text.  The other one, as Hypersmurf enjoys pointing out to folks, is a house rule, however much sense it makes.</blockquote>