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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 212592" data-attributes="member: 2209">I believe that the rules do not allow you to retroactively add in skill points and that you can use an int item to gain extra when you level but if you lose the item they are gone and do not come back if you regain the bonus.I find that the bookkeeping is easier and makes character checking easier if it is based on total levels, not when you gained the bonuses. Otherwise you have two eighth level clerics with 12 ints, one has 11 more skill points than the other because he started with a higher int while the other spent his level ups on int. Quality checking to verify that mid to high level NPCs have the right number of skill points is a pain for this reason (among others if they are multiclassed). It gets worse if they are cleric 7 rogue 1s one starting as rogue and one taking rogue as his last level.It comes down to if you are modifying an existing character then the by the rules approach is easy to do and makes sense. But if you need to recreate your character it is a real pain because you must remember the character path as well.</blockquote>