Attack bonus

[Yannick Broeders]

hi,

i am really new to these style of games, and i have an question about attack bonus, does attack bonus increase the chance to hit something or does it increase the damage? and if i do melee damage and have a strengt modifier of +2 do i do 2 more damage or do i get an 2 more on my chance to hit the target?

Greetings Yannick and Kim

[Eltacolibre]

It increases the chance to hit something. Technically it can be used to increase damage as well with the infamous power attack feat for melee.

[Sean K Reynolds]

Attack bonus and damage bonus are separate things.
Your attack bonus adds to your attack roll (but not your damage roll).
Your damage bonus adds to your damage roll (but not your attack roll).

Your Strength adds to your attack bonus and it also adds to your damage bonus, so there's an overlapping advantage to having a high Strength (for melee attacks, at least).

[Yannick Broeders]

And Wat about ranged if I would have an +4 Dex mod, do I get an +4 damage bonus with ranged attacks? Thanks for all the other information

[Sartugha]

Ranged attacks are funny. With bows and the like in the beginner box, Dex does provide a to hit bonus to them, but you get no damage bonus. Thrown weapons or slings benefit from Dex for the to hit, and get the strength for the damage.

(ref. BB heros handbook, page 56-57, 59 [in my book at least])

[Sean K Reynolds]

What Sartugha said: Dex gives a bonus on ranged attack rolls, but not on ranged damage rolls.

[Yannick Broeders]

and wat about spells, do those get damage bonus from int? or hit bonus? it some times says ranged touch roll for spells, does this mean that i need to add a Dex mod or an Int mod? Or do spels not have any benefit rolls?

thanks for all the information so far, It has been really helpful! :)

greetings Yannick&kim

[feytharn]

I don't think there are spells that get a damage bonus through an attribute - if there are, it is explicitly said in the spell description.
Ranged touch rolls are ranged attacks (base attack + dex bonus) that are rolled against the targets touch AC.

[Sean K Reynolds]

Spells which require attack rolls still add your Dex mod to the attack roll.

In general, there aren't any spells which add your ability mod to attack or damage.