Jamis Buck's NPC Generator skill point question...

[Arravis]

First... sorry about the cross-posting, but I know the software forum is rarely read...

I have a question regarding Jamis Buck's NPC Generator. I see that they have added a feature that show's skill points, what I want to know is that on the list of actual skills, are those skill points already spent or do I need to spend them?


For example, I generated an npc with these skills and feats:

Skill points: Bbn 52
Skills and feats: Craft +11, Hide -3, Innuendo +4, Intimidate +6, Intuit direction +14, Jump +23, Listen +12, Move silently +1, Search +8, Spot +13, Swim +16; Alertness, Blind-fight, Combat reflexes, [Power attack], Quick draw.

Are those 52 skill points already spent? Or not yet. Sometimes the numbers don't seem to add up, I know there are many modifiers, so I do suspect that they have already been spent, but I'm not sure. I'm at work at the moment so I don't have my books to double check with to find out.

Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[The_lone_gunman]

Looks like they are spent to me. The numbers you posted are 105 when added up. If you take an average of +2 to stats to these skills, that still leaves you 83 points (11*2=22-105= 83 points). That still leaves you with more than 53......Unless this guy has some bad ass stats it would have to be already added in......


TLG

 

[SkeletonKey Ed]

You can set the generator to show you how it calculates the skill points. Just go under Configure Output and set Display Skill Calculation Breakdown and you will get this.

Skill points: Ftr 18
Skills and feats: Appraise +3 (+1 Int, +2 Racial), Craft +3 (+1 Int, +2 Racial), Diplomacy +0.5 (+0.5 Rank), Disguise +0.5 (+0.5 Rank), Forgery +4 (+3 Rank, +1 Int), Hide +3 (+3 Dex), Listen +1 (+1 Wis), Move silently +3 (+3 Dex), Pick pocket +5 (+2 Rank, +3 Dex), Profession +3.5 (+2.5 Rank, +1 Wis), Spellcraft +1.5 (+0.5 Rank, +1 Int), Spot +1 (+1 Wis); Dodge, Endurance, Point blank shot, Power attack.

Ed