So, ok. If you have 10 strength, and you hit someone with a longsword, you do a d8 of damage and that's it. If you roll a 1, you do 1 damage. If you roll an 8, you do 8 damage.
If you have higher strength, you add that to your damage. If you have 18 strength, then you do a d8 + 4 damage. 1 becomes 5, and 8 becomes 12.
What if you have really low strength? What if I've got 7 strength, and I stab someone with a dagger? If I roll a d4 on damage, do I do zero damage?
What if I roll a 1? Do I heal them for three damage?
With 7 Strength, you have a -2 penalty. So your dagger does 1d4-2 damage. If weapon damage is reduced to 0 or less, you still do 1 point of non-lethal damage. (This is all in the "Damage" section of the Combat chapter in the Core Rulebook).
No. If a penalty makes you deal less than 1 point of damage, you'll instead do 1 point of non-lethal damage. It's on page 179 of the Core Rule Book.
Lots of small animals have a strength penalty greater than their damage dice. They always deal only 1 point of damage unless their strength or damage dice is increased.
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This means even a baby could, over a long enough period of time, knock out a full grown adventurer.
Can the heroes survive Baby Dungeon?!
The baby has to hit...not to mention somehow be armed. I mean if somehow the baby was particularly malicious, and the adventurer did nothing to stop it, the baby could eventually crawl on top of him and push in his eyes or something.
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I'd treat that many babies as a swarm, which would do automatic damage anyway.
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Babies do tend to have razor-sharp fingernails. They are constantly scratching the bejeebus out of themselves and anyone who gets in their way.
Not to mention the yowling noises a baby-swarm would make. And the smell.
I think that adds up to a pretty nasty combo of distraction (probably DC 56ish) and nauseating (probably around DC 92).
Don't mess with a baby-swarm, people.
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Pretty sure babies hit at touch AC anyways, even if you didn't have a swarm of them. And then they could always just use their special vomit attack or fascinate on you. =P
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Very disturbing path this thread has taken.
The worst part of Baby Dungeon is the Rugrats theme on infinite loop.
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God....I was originally going to go for "cats" as the example animal, but everyone here found the other adorable thing people post pictures of instead.
I want a baby swarm in my games now. Maybe manipulated by an evil enchanter. Who is a nega-care bear. No paladin will be able to stand against him!
This movie scared me somethin' bad back in 1974.
A swarm of zombie babies is right up Paizo's alley.
They should. That's the most Metal thing in the world!