Yes, a ranged attack with a ranged weapon would include your Dex bonus to both attack and damage rolls. The Player’s Handbook mentions this twice. You add your Dexterity modifier to your attack roll and your damage roll when attacking with a ranged weapon, such as a sling or a longbow.
Do you add ability modifier to ranged damage 5e?
Yes they do. Weapon attacks add to the damage roll the same ability score the to-hit roll used, and attacks with ranged weapons use your Dexterity for their to-hit rolls. When attacking with a weapon, you add your ability modifier—the same modifier used for the attack roll— to the damage.
What is the ability modifier for a bow?
Attacks made with this bow deal 2d6 piercing damage and adds the wielder’s Strength modifier instead of their Dexterity modifier. The PHB (194) has this to say about the ability modifier for Attack Rolls: The ability modifier used for a melee weapon attack is Strength, and the ability modifier used for a ranged weapon attack is Dexterity.
What are the modifiers for longbow in RuneScape?
That specific longbow, however, states that the damage it does is 2d6 + the wielder’s Strength modifier. That is a specific rule which overrides the general rule. As such, you use Dexterity for the attack roll and Strength for the damage roll.
When do you add a modifier to a damage roll?
The section in the PHB on Damage Rolls states ( emphasis mine ): When attacking with a weapon you add your ability modifier – the same modifier used for the attack roll – to the damage. So the general rule is that the damage roll uses the same ability modifier as the attack roll.
Do you add dexterity modifier to attack rolls?
To me this means that unless a feature specifically tells you not to, you would add your Dexterity modifier to a ranged weapon’s damage and attack rolls. An example of such a prevention is Two-Weapon Fighting which states: You don’t add your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack, unless that modifier is negative.
