Mark the Wise and Powerful wrote:
The 2e Bestiary has ability modifiers but no ability scores.
What if an NPC suffers ability drain or damage? Assume the NPC has the odd or even ability score for that modifier?
I'm pretty sure there is no more ability drain/damage, just conditions that apply penalties to certain rolls. Like, instead of taking 2 Str damage, you would be Enfeebled 1.
(Also, even in P1e, whether an ability score was odd or even didn't matter to ability damage; just every time you took 2 points of damage you got a -1 penalty to rolls.)