There was a great homebrew feat on the Unearthed Arcana subreddit which allowed Strength-based characters to use their Strength in place of Dexterity for certain ranged weapons. It worked well for my players in closing the gap between DEX and STR fighters, and in moving to D&D Beyond I wanted to offer the option to them again. However, I'm unsure how to code it properly in the site. This is the feat:
Draw Weight
Your impressive physique allows you to use brute force instead of finesse while making ranged attacks with certain weapons. You gain the following benefits:
Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
You can use Strength instead of Dexterity for attack and damage rolls with shortbows, longbows, and slings.
The +1 to Strength from the feat is easy to do, but which Modifier do I use to replace the Dexterity modifier on attack/damage rolls with Strength on those weapons? Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
Is this still the case where we have to create custom items? The Battle Smith Artificer has the Battle Ready feature that uses intelligence for Magic Weapon attacks. I wish they could expand that same bonus to be applied to other types of attacks like the OP example.
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There was a great homebrew feat on the Unearthed Arcana subreddit which allowed Strength-based characters to use their Strength in place of Dexterity for certain ranged weapons. It worked well for my players in closing the gap between DEX and STR fighters, and in moving to D&D Beyond I wanted to offer the option to them again. However, I'm unsure how to code it properly in the site. This is the feat:
Draw Weight
Your impressive physique allows you to use brute force instead of finesse while making ranged attacks with certain weapons. You gain the following benefits:
The +1 to Strength from the feat is easy to do, but which Modifier do I use to replace the Dexterity modifier on attack/damage rolls with Strength on those weapons? Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
Going to have to go the way revenant blade works and just make custom items that the feat replaces normal ones with.
Finesse on a bow will let you use STR.
Is this still the case where we have to create custom items? The Battle Smith Artificer has the Battle Ready feature that uses intelligence for Magic Weapon attacks. I wish they could expand that same bonus to be applied to other types of attacks like the OP example.