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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9252980" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>Multiclassing may change the maximum ranks in a skill, but it doesn't change how you <strong>spend</strong> the skill points when you level up. If you invest a point in a skill that's a class skill for <strong>the class you're leveling up</strong>, you buy one rank, but if you invest in a cross class skill for that class, it buys a half-rank. And that's true even if you are multiclassed and the skill you're buying a rank in is a class skill for one of your other classes. If you're leveling up as a fighter this time, putting a point in Knowledge: Arcana is gonna buy you just a half-rank even if your other class is wizard where it's a class skill.</p><p></p><p>I understand where they were coming from with the 3e rules. They were working from the idea that the development resources you gain for one class may not be efficiently realized if you devote them to one of your other classes. That was something also in Middle Earth Role Playing game (and probably the rest of the ICE system) where classes got different resources for different types of skills and had to pay a premium price if they wanted to spend them outside of their normal lanes - such as spending a weapon skill resource on a subterfuge skill. It may have been a bit stronger in the simulation realm, but it made playing the game mechanic harder to deal with.</p><p></p><p>Pathfinder 1 tosses that distinction out the window and simplifies the whole thing. And I think that was a good decision.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 9252980, member: 3400"] Multiclassing may change the maximum ranks in a skill, but it doesn't change how you [B]spend[/B] the skill points when you level up. If you invest a point in a skill that's a class skill for [B]the class you're leveling up[/B], you buy one rank, but if you invest in a cross class skill for that class, it buys a half-rank. And that's true even if you are multiclassed and the skill you're buying a rank in is a class skill for one of your other classes. If you're leveling up as a fighter this time, putting a point in Knowledge: Arcana is gonna buy you just a half-rank even if your other class is wizard where it's a class skill. I understand where they were coming from with the 3e rules. They were working from the idea that the development resources you gain for one class may not be efficiently realized if you devote them to one of your other classes. That was something also in Middle Earth Role Playing game (and probably the rest of the ICE system) where classes got different resources for different types of skills and had to pay a premium price if they wanted to spend them outside of their normal lanes - such as spending a weapon skill resource on a subterfuge skill. It may have been a bit stronger in the simulation realm, but it made playing the game mechanic harder to deal with. Pathfinder 1 tosses that distinction out the window and simplifies the whole thing. And I think that was a good decision. [/QUOTE]
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