Pathfinder 1E Skill Rank Question

[dogoftheunderworld]

Put them anywhere and in any method you feel isn't cheesy. Plug them into skills in bunches of ranks that are still below your cheese threshold. Or is this some kind of trick question?

Learn 12 new languages, obviously.

 

[Summer-Knight925]

Hey, 12 languages?


I hear once you learn your 2nd language, it's much easier to learn a 3rd, or a 4th, or a 5th...I assume a 12th would be much easier.

 

[Empirate]

In 3.5, you do not gain skillpoints retroactively when your Int is raised. Is this different in Pathfinder? I cannot find a corresponding rule, but still...

 

[S'mon]

In 3.5, you do not gain skillpoints retroactively when your Int is raised. Is this different in Pathfinder? I cannot find a corresponding rule, but still...

In PF everything is retroactive. It's much better IMO.

 

[Empirate]

In PF everything is retroactive. It's much better IMO.

To me, for HP it makes sense, for skills... nah. How much you learn depends on your intelligence at the time of learning, not weeks or even years later. Do people suddenly receive a boost to their skills when they turn 45 in PF? Isn't that a little retarded?

 

[Kinak]

To me, for HP it makes sense, for skills... nah. How much you learn depends on your intelligence at the time of learning, not weeks or even years later. Do people suddenly receive a boost to their skills when they turn 45 in PF? Isn't that a little retarded?

Yes, they would. The gain could be more granular, but what's more natural than learning more skills over the years?

Honestly, it's probably weirder that PCs gain a bunch of skills through a few days of adventuring.

Cheers!
Kinak

 

[S'mon]

To me, for HP it makes sense, for skills... nah. How much you learn depends on your intelligence at the time of learning, not weeks or even years later. Do people suddenly receive a boost to their skills when they turn 45 in PF? Isn't that a little retarded?

INT and WIS going up with age instead of declining is pretty retarded.

 

[Soramain]

To me, for HP it makes sense, for skills... nah. How much you learn depends on your intelligence at the time of learning, not weeks or even years later. Do people suddenly receive a boost to their skills when they turn 45 in PF? Isn't that a little retarded?

It makes it easier to construct higher level PCs and NPCs and for the player or DM to check their math. In 3.5 if I want to verify that my wizard has the right number of skill points, I have to reverse engineer the character to first level and figure out when my intelligence increased so I can figure out how many skill points I have at each level. In Pathfinder it's (2 + 1 (human) + int bonus) x level. Quick, simple math.

You can also get 1 per level for favored class, but if I'm playing a wizard that usually goes into HP.

 

[Empirate]

To fulfill PrC prereqs etc., you'll have to build level-for-level anyways, at least a lot of the time. I'm not arguing ease of play though, I just think it's strange is all.