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On the Savage Technologist archetype, see the bolded part:
A savage technologist can enter rage as a barbarian, except she gains a morale bonus to Strength and Dexterity instead of Strength and Constitution, and she does not take a penalty to Armor Class. She retains the bonus on Will saving throws. When a barbarian ability would increase the savage technologist's Strength while raging, it increases her Dexterity instead.
Seems to me that where it says STRENGTH on the bolded part, it should say CONSTITUTION. Isn't it so?
I've come across this before. Here's what I said last time:
I read as thus:
Normally when you rage, you get a bonus to str and con, will bonus, and AC penalty. Now you get a bonus to str and dex, no will bonus, no AC penalty. This is similar to the urban barbarian.
Then, when a barbarian ability - such as a rage power - would increase strength (such as strength surge), it increases dex instead. So that rage power would be a dexterity surge.
With this follow up to a question:
So the str increases from greater and mighty rage aren't changed into dex?Correct. Str and Dex increase instead of Str and Con for Rage, Greater Rage, and Mighty Rage. And then, separately, any other Str increases are then changed to Dex - such as the Strength Surge rage power.
Since most technology is firearm based - with all the new cool plasma rifles and whatnot - they're allowing the barbarian to benefit increasing their dex when raging and using rage powers instead of the relatively useless strength or con stat (since strength and constitution do not come into play when firing a gun).