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• Using Strength
• Strength Skills
• Athletics & Acrobatics
  • Example
• Additional Notes
• Variant: Encumbrance

Examples might include:

• Forcing a lock
• Breaking shackles
• Tipping a statue over

• Athletics - Tricky situations during a Strength check. E.g. Performing a stunt mid-jump.

Not to be confused with Dexterity (Acrobatics) though they might be similar in some ways, and you might be able to convince a DM that a movement requires the strength of an athletic feat, rather than the dexterity required for an acrobatic movement.

You're balancing on a rope, and your DM has had you make a Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to see if you can stay upright, you slip, and your DM makes you roll a Strength (Athletics) check to see if you grab the rope on your way down, and can hang on against the force of gravity.

The Strength Modifier is added to attack and damage rolls for strength-based weaponry.

Carrying capacity is Strength x15

Pushing, dragging, lifting, is possible up to twice the carrying capacity in pounds.

• Otherwise known as Strength x30
• Moving something in excess of this drops speed to 5.

Each size category above medium doubles carrying capacity and push, drag, lift.

• A large creature has a carrying capacity of Strength x60

Tiny creatures halve their carrying capacity and push, drag lift.

• A tiny creature has a carrying capacity of Strength x15 / 2
• A tiny creature with a Strength of 19 could carry up to 142.5 pounds of weight.

Optionally, if you carry a total weight of Strength x5, you are encumbered.

• Speed drops by 10

If you carry a total weight of Strength x10, you are heavily encumbered.

• Speed drops by 20
• Disadvantage on ability checks, attack rolls, saving throws that use:
  • Strength
  • Dexterity
  • Constitution