What can you do as a free member?

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and unlock all our premium features and tools to enhance your gaming experience.

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and save articles to your watchlist and get notified when they're updated with new information.

Member benefits illustration

Create your free account today and save your favorite games for quick access later, synced across all your devices.

Member benefits illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you'll receive instant notifications when someone replies to your posts.

Comment rating feature illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you can make use of convenient features in the comments section, such as rating and sorting comments.

Premium archive feature illustration

By creating a Game8 account and logging in, you can access Premium articles that are exclusively available to members.

Site Interface

Guest
Free Member
Article Watchlist
Game Bookmarks
Cross-device Sync
Light/Dark Theme Toggle
User Profiles
Direct Feedback
Comment Rating

Game Tools

Guest
Free Member
Interactive Map Access
Interactive Map Pins
Interactive Map Comments
Interactive Map Pins Cross-Device
Check List
Event Choice Checker
Deck Builder Cross-Device
Message Board Notification
Message Board Cross-Device
Build Planner
Stat Calculator
Diagnostic Tool
Weapon/Armor Wishlist

Want more information?Learn more

Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3)

What is Strength?

Add to Watchlist

All Updates for Patch 5
Beginner Guides for All Starter Players
★ Simple Character Creation Guide for beginners
A Full Guide to Multiclassing
All Side Quests and Event Points
☆ All Races and Subraces

Baldur

Strength is an Ability in Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3) that measures a character's physical power, athletics and their effectiveness with melee weapons. Read on to learn more about Strength and what is affects in the game.

All Ability Guides
Strength iconStrength Dexterity iconDexterity Constitution iconConstitution
Intelligence iconIntelligence Wisdom iconWisdom Charisma iconCharisma

What is Strength?

Raw Physical Power

Strength measures bodily power, athletic training, and the extent to which a character can exert raw physical force.

This includes various movement such as jumping onto various surfaces, pushing objects, and the ability to resist getting shoved.

Strength Based Skills

Skill Description
Athletics The ability to perform physical stunts like jumping. Helps you shove and resist being shoved.

Strength Based Classes

Strength Based Classes
Barbarian Icon Barbarian Fighter Icon Fighter

Strength is the primary ability score for Barbarians and secondary main stat for Fighters.

Improves Shove Action

Baldur

Shove is very versatile action in Baldur's Gate 3, the ability of a character to successfully shove another is dependant on their Strength score.

How to Shove and Best Uses of Shove

Attack Rolls and Damage

Strength also measures how effective a character is when using certain melee weapons in combat like greataxes, javelins, or even while empty handed. A character's strength modifier is added to both attack and damage rolls unless otherwise specified.

Increases Encumberance Limit

Strength ties directly to how many items a character can carry in their inventory which is also called the encumberance limit. A character with a higher Strength ability score will be able to carry more items than one with a lower score.

Increases Jump Distance

Baldur

While you can jump a certain distance with any character, the range of where you can jump will ultimately depend on the Strength of a character.

Baldur's Gate 3 Related Guides

Ability Scores partial.png

Ability Scores Guide

All Ability Scores

What is Strength? What is Intelligence?
What is Dexterity? What is Constitution?
What is Charisma? What is Wisdom?

Author

    Please participate in our site
    improvement survey
    12/2025
    Would you assist in
    improving Game8's site?
    ×
    This survey will take about 1 minute.
    Your answers will help us to improve our website.
    We are listening to our users' valuable opinions and discussing how to act on them.
    The information collected through this survey will be used for the purpose of improving our services. In addition, the information will only be disclosed a part of a statistic in a format that will not allow identification of personal information.
    Begin Survey

    All rights reserved

    Guide Index