'Skill' Feats - How many?

[Darklone]

KPG has even more skill feats... some of them with higher bonuses.

 

[Shawn Kehoe]

Another thing to keep in mind with Diplomacy is that it is a huge synergy suck -- it gets a +2 (unnamed, and stackable) bonus if you have 5 ranks in Bluff, Knowledge (nobility and royalty), or Sense Motive. So with a few feats, it's easy to really crank up your score in this skill.

I'm uncertain about that - I believe the rulebooks always refer to it as a +2 'synergy' bonus. Otherwise a 2nd level character could have +17 or more in Diplomacy, which seems broken.

 

[Wippit Guud]

No no... max bluff, get it up over 50, walk into a city, and say, "Hi! I'm Heironious!"

Lets see... 65 on the bluff check, yep, they believe you!

 

[CRGreathouse]

I'm uncertain about that - I believe the rulebooks always refer to it as a +2 'synergy' bonus. Otherwise a 2nd level character could have +17 or more in Diplomacy, which seems broken.

Nope. In 3.0 synergy bonuses were an exception to the normal rules -- they stacked. In 3.5 they're unnamed bonuses.

A 2nd level character could get +18 to Diplomacy if she started with 3 Cha.

 

[Shawn Kehoe]

Wow... so they are.Thanks!

-Shawn