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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spectrum Rider" data-source="post: 452997" data-attributes="member: 6237">If at least one of your classes has the skill as a class skill, then your max ranks is character level + 3; otherwise half that.Even so, when you go up a level in a class that does not have the skill as a class skill, you still have to spend 2 skill points for each rank.So, for example:  a 5th-level wizard has a max ranks in Handle Animal of  (5 +3)/2 = 4.  If he adds one level of ranger, the max ranks is now calculated as though Handle Animal were a class skill, so they are now 6 + 3 = 9.  When he increases his level as a ranger, he can buy one rank of Handle Animal for 1 skill point.  But if he increases his level as a wizard, it costs him 2 skill points to add one rank to Handle Animal. The exception to all this is exclusive skills.  Only those classes for which the excusive skill is a class skill contribute to the max ranks.  So, for example, an 8th-level ranger/5th-level wizard has a max ranks for Animal Empathy of 8 + 3 = 11.  The wizard levels just don't count here.  And, whenever he increases his level as a wizard, he can't buy Animal Empathy ranks at all.  (When he increases his level as a ranger, it still costs 1 skill point for 1 rank of Animal Empthy.) Thi is all in the PH, but I'm not looking at my copy right now so I can't give you a page number.The Spectrum Rider</blockquote>