i need to kno how to calculate feats/skill points

[billd91]

This will definitely take a while, but I would suggest making up the character as a 1st level <whatever> first and then advancing them through their level-gaining career one level at a time. It will help you keep track of how the skill points are spent and give you a lot of practice on the character-leveling rules.

Things that will be important: Skill buying is kind of weird for multi-class characters. Their list of class skills is the combined list of all class skills for all of their classes, yet when advancing in one of their classes, they must still pay cross-class penalties for picking up ranks in skills that are not specifically listed as class skills. So, if you're a fighter/wizard and you want to pick up a rank of Know: arcana when you pick up a fighter level, you still must pay 2 skill points to get it instead of 1, even though it is technically a class skill for the character as a whole (and has a max rank of character level +3).

Also, increases in intelligence bonus are not retroactive. So if you raise your Int bonus at 10th level by 1, you don't suddenly get a bunch more more skill points to spend for all of the previous levels. If you plan on increasing the character's intelligence, doing the skills one or two levels at a time can be easier for someone not too clear on the rules.

 

[Drasmir]

Things that will be important: Skill buying is kind of weird for multi-class characters. Their list of class skills is the combined list of all class skills for all of their classes, yet when advancing in one of their classes, they must still pay cross-class penalties for picking up ranks in skills that are not specifically listed as class skills. So, if you're a fighter/wizard and you want to pick up a rank of Know: arcana when you pick up a fighter level, you still must pay 2 skill points to get it instead of 1, even though it is technically a class skill for the character as a whole (and has a max rank of character level +3).

I think that this is inaccurate.

From SRD: Each skill point you spend on a class skill gets you 1 rank in that skill. Class skills are the skills found on your character’s class skill list.

If you are a multiclass character all of the classes combined determine your character's class skill list.
YMMV

 

[MerakSpielman]

The thing is, the class skills are different when you are taking a level of fighter and when you are taking a level of wizard.

When you are taking a level of fighter, only the fighter's standard list of class skills count as class skills when distributing the points. You get the number of skill points a fighter gets when he levels (2+INT mod, right?) and can spend them as a fighter. I think this is because you are spending time training your martial abilities and neglecting your magical ones. The local Fighter Training School doesn't teach Knowledge Arcana. If you want to learn it, it'll cost you like a cross-class skill.

edit: This is also the way E-Tools does it. E-Tools has it's quirks, but nobody is complaining about this. If you create a 5 Ftr/5 Wiz and go to the skills page, you have to select as which class you are assigning the points. It calculates the class and cross-class point prices depending on the class you have selected.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

I think that this is inaccurate. If you are a multiclass character all of the classes combined determine your character's class skill list.
YMMV

Alas, no.

A 1st level rogue has 4 ranks in Tumble. When he reaches 2nd level, he decides to take a level of Fighter instead. While the maximum number of ranks this character may have in Tumble is now 5, he needs to put 2 skill points in Tumble in order to buy his 5th rank.

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