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Our group has never had a monk until now. My question is this: If a monk gets his WIS modified someway, either by Owl's Wisdom or some other means during the day, does this affect his Ki Pool?

My inclination is "no" because the rules state that the Ki pool is replenished at the start of the day. Thus, I would think that the Ki pool is set regardless of what happens to the monk's WIS later in the day (good or bad).

Just wondering what the real rule was.

Thanks!

I noticed that ability damage doesn't really reduce the actual ability, it just *acts* like it did.

What is the point of this? Wouldn't it have been much simpler just to say when you take ability damage the ability is reduced by a like amount? Done. Instead, they explain all the dependent rolls/abilities that are affected are reduced.

The ONLY rationale I could come up with is that it may have been too tedious to look up new encumbrances if STR was damaged.

Anyway, I fail to see why they went with this approach. If anyone can shed some light, I would love to hear it.

If a wizard casts Fireball, do you roll damage for each creature individually within the area of effect, or do you roll once and apply that result to all the affected creatures? Same goes for Channel Energy.