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Your six main ability scores are your bread and butter inDungeons & Dragons.
But, how exactly should you go about improving these stats?
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Here are some of the best ways to improve your ability scores in Dungeons & Dragons.
The best standard approachto improving your ability scoreis to use feats.
Typically,feats improve your ability scoresin one of two ways.
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Depending on your choices,some feats can prove extremely powerful.
As an example, you might have your eye on a powerful feat that has a certain prerequisite.
See the below example of a monk’s character progression.
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So, they take an Ability Score Improvement at Level Four, increasing their Strength from 11 to 13.
Items can often boost stats oreven armor class.
As a DM, you should alsoconsider ways to reward playerswith magic items that are tailored to their needs.
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Here are afew examples of some itemsthat can either permanently or temporarily improve ability scores.
Potion of Giant Strength
Strength
When you consume this position, your Strength score temporarily changes for 1 hour.
For example, if you find a Potion of Storm Giant Strength, your Strength score changes to 27.
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This varies depending on each jot down of potion.
Players should also not be shy about expressing their wants for these rewards to their DM.
This will help players feel like theyve truly hit their capstone as characters!
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Here are justa few ideas of roleplay scenariosyou can implement.
Well set up one story thread idea, and then break it up into steps.
Say you havea druid in your party who was kidnappedby a maligned druidic cult as a child.
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Now, the party has the opportunity totry to break the seal of this magicon their druidic friend.
Heres a breakdown of how you canthread this narrative arc into an ability score improvementfor your player.
However,you cannot use feats or the standard Ability Score Improvementto do this.
Rather, players should rely on two things.
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