Manual of Gainful Exercise

Wondrous Item, very rare

This book describes fitness exercises, and its words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book’s contents and practicing its guidelines, your Strength increases by 2, to a maximum of 30. The manual then loses its magic but regains it in a century.

Notes: Bonus: Strength Score, Bonus: Ability Score Maximum, Buff

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SleepyisTired
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Posted Sep 23, 2023
Theoretically, if you could live up to 1000 years old, and already had 20 strength

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Salfalur1
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Posted Aug 12, 2024
How does this interact with the lvl. 20 Barbarian Capstone? Of course if you read the tome before reaching lvl. 20 it'd be wasted but if you go lvl. 20 and then read it, would you actually be able to go to 26?

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Posted Jan 1, 2025
Those magic items are very useful to have mysterious book to convince them to use strengths checks, but some players are taking some opportunities to have currently casting spell are most useful destruction.

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Posted Jan 7, 2025
Quote from evilvillans >>

Quote from DIemortalscum >>

Wait, why is there no limit? does this mean I could theoretically get a 40 strength?

yes

no

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Posted Jan 7, 2025
Quote from TriseAlpha >>

Quote from Glaldrumin_Hornbane >>

Could I stack it with the Belt of Storm Giant Strength?

No. The Belt of Giant Strength doesn't increase your Strength score, it overwrites it. The Manual checks your *original* Str score, before equipping the Belt, and *that's* what gets buffed. That total will almost certainly be lower than the 29 from Storm Giant Strength, so the Belt will reset your Str back to 29.

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Could I stack it with the Belt of Storm Giant Strength?

No. The Belt of Giant Strength doesn't increase your Strength score, it overwrites it. The Manual checks your *original* Str score, before equipping the Belt, and *that's* what gets buffed. That total will almost certainly be lower than the 29 from Storm Giant Strength, so the Belt will reset your Str back to 29.

well, it would work with the belt, but say you have a St of 20, and read the book and now have a St of 22. Putting on the belt will still make their strength go to 29.

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Posted Jan 7, 2025
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Those magic items are very useful to have mysterious book to convince them to use strengths checks, but some players are taking some opportunities to have currently casting spell are most useful destruction.

ummm......WHAT????

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