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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CmdrSam" data-source="post: 756480" data-attributes="member: 7771">I was confused on this too, but got my question answered here at EN World <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The answer is that if a skill is a class skill for any of your classes, it is a class skill for the purposes of maximum ranks. If it is cross-class for all of your classes, it is cross-class for the purposes of maximum ranks.In your example, Perform is a class skill for at least one class of the rogue/bard (in this case, both) so the maximum # of ranks is 3+level.If you had, say, a bard/paladin, Perform is a class skill for bard, so the maximum # of ranks is 3+level, level again being total character level. When you take paladin levels, though, Perform is cross-class, so it still takes 2 skill points to get a rank. If you start with a Bard 1, with 4 ranks in perform, and then add a Paladin level, you can go up to 5 ranks (maximum # total level+3) but adding the rank in Perform costs 2 skill points when leveling as a Paladin.As regards exclusive skills: it's pretty simple; levels in classes where Skill X is prohibited simply do not count towards the maximum number of ranks you can put in Skill X.I think that pretty much sums it up; tell me if I'm unclear or inaccurate <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=":)" />--Sam L-L</blockquote>

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