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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Artoomis" data-source="post: 2623010" data-attributes="member: 111">Actually, you are partially right.  It is possible to read the rules to allow only 1 skill point per level for humans with low intelligence, but it's not really possible to do that definatively.On the other hand, the text "1. Determine the number of skill points ... at least 1 skill point ... even if he or she has an Intelligence penalty."  and then, in a following sentence, "A human gets 1 extra skill point per level..." is, in fact, contained within an ordered list. It makes it look like you first figure out the skill points and THEN figure in the extra human one. You may read it either way, true, but it's a bit of a stretch to ignore the order of the steps contained within the quoted step 1.  These sentences are contained within an ordered list, so ignoring the fact that they happen one after another seems to ignore the fact that they are within an ordered list.The analysis applies to first level as well, but it's just plain a lot more typing for the first level text anaylsis.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Remember that this is the rules forum - it's about interpreting what the rules say - it's up to each DM to do whatever seems right with what we say.   A lot of what we do here is intellectual exercises on fine points of the rules.</blockquote>

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