Question about adding bonuses

[Spidysox]

Greetings!

I was introduced to this wonderful game just over a month ago and have completely fallen for it. I play it whenever I get a chance solo and have also become part of a party of 5 that is working it's way through the adventures together.

A question came up in our parties last play session. When calculating your die rolls and bonuses, do you add all of the + that you see?

Let me clarify.

Lets say Valeros is going to attempt a combat check. He reveals a weapon, a mace, that says he should roll his strength or melee die + 1D8.
His strength is a D10, melee is strength +3. Now that is easy enough, I'll roll a d10, d8 and add 3 to the result. No problem.

Now lets say for a skill feat I chose strength +1. Does the extra bonus apply to the above scenario, or does it only apply to non-combat or non-melee rolls?

Hopefully I've made this question clear.

[Hawkmoon269]

It applies to all instances of strength, be they combat strength, non-combat strength, combat melee or non-combat melee.

Valeros's melee is based on his strength, so anything that helps his strength also helps his melee.