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Jul/080
Dungeons and Dragons character help?
Im in the process of building a level 8 Ogre Barbarian. In doing so, one of my friends mentioned that with all of the states on paper once I pick and choose my weapons, my attack gets a bonus on top of base stats. I have looked and looked and looked in the D&D players guide but cannot find anything on this. When I look under the equipment guide it only lists the weapons, the attack damage (1 d8 etc) and the critical damage. I am using Players guide version 3.5. Do I need to look somewhere else?
Your attack and damage are determined by your base attack bonus, strength bonus, and any feats you may have.
Ogres have 4 racial hit dice (giant; 4d8) which give them +3 base attack bonus on top of the BAB gained from barbarian class.
8 levels of barbarian with 4 giant racial hit dice gives a BAB of 11, now ogres get a whopping +10 to strength so you’ll likely get a fairly high strength bonus to add to that.
Lets assume a rather modest 14 strength base, with +10 on top of that and +2 from levelling up (if you choose to put those 2 points in strength that is) 26 strength gives a +8 strength bonus so your attack bonus without any feats or enchanted equipment would be +19 to hit and the damage bonus would be +8 (+12 if it’s a 2 handed weapon)
It’s worth noting that ogres are size large so the weapons they use are generally one size larger than usual (for example a longsword sized for an ogre does 1d10 damage instead of 1d8)
It’s also worth noting that an 8th level ogre barbarian is equivalent to a level 14 character (8 class levels + 4 racial hit dice + 2 Level adjustment)
Hope this helped
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