I blame it on inexperience. Thank you for looking into this question: I did learn some things and I'll share this knowledge with these people, if they are willing to listen of course :)
Thanks for the fast reply.
DASH: probably that's the case! Dumb of me I didn't thought about that.
29 points: I suppose it's a house rule... As you say, 29 points (calculator). Rules are there to be broken :)
I saw this Forest Gnome Cleric, Trickery Domain, Entertainer background, level 1 (!), with the following stats: STR 14 - DEX 11 - CON 12 - INT 15 - WIS 15 - CHAR 10.
INT gets +2 and DEX gets +1 as it's a gnome, so base INT was 13 and base DEX was 10. But, I don't get the CHAR.
I looked at this...