BAB of 10/5/0?

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#1

Kanexus

Sep 07, 2015 6:59:53

So I'm playing a Stone Giant Barbarian and I've just reached lvl 11 which gives me a BAB of 11/6/1 but being a large creature I get -1 to BAB, does this count for all attacks and if so is it possible to have 10/5/0? 

 

Edit: Ignoring the Giant levels BAB of +10 

#2

NineInchNall

Sep 07, 2015 7:51:54

To determine BAB you add together all the listed values for all your sources (that is, your racial HD and all your class levels.) You get +10 BAB from being a stone giant, and +11 BAB from being an 11th level Barbarian. So your BAB is +21, which gives you an attack routine of +21/+16/+11/+6.

 

Large size does not affect your BAB. It instead gives you a -1 penalty to all your attacks.

#3

Kanexus

Sep 07, 2015 8:01:20

Ok thank you for explaining that to me, the books aren't always clear.

#4

StevenO

Sep 07, 2015 10:29:57

Things only have one BAB which is the sum of it's parts.  If you have a +10 BAB from one source and +10 from another then you have +20.  It is from that value that you start applying modifiers and calculate itterative attacks with manufactured weapons.

 

Now the thing that may cause problems is knowing when the EPIC level rules are going to kick in because at that point a character's BAB does not go up like it did before.  Hitting 21 class levels makes a character "epic" but I'll admit that I am unsure when racial HD come online in this.  Your Stone Giant will always get the full BAB based on HD of Giant (3/4) but your 10 levels of Barbarian may have 4 of them counting as "epic" which would mean that class only contributes +8 BAB.

 

Also note that characters do not get more than four itterative attacks after reaching BAB +16.  A character "epic attack bonus" counts as BAB for many things but itterative attacks are not amoung them.

 

I'm also going to say that you should have figured this stuff out a long time ago.  A Stone Giant effectively starts as an 18th level character (14 HD +4 LA) and adding on Barbarian 11 to that should have you treated as a 29th level character which is clearly an Epic character.