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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 3000949" data-attributes="member: 18363">In 3e, so long as you wore the headband the entire time you were the prior level (ie: you level up, put on the headband, and eventually level up again without having taken it off once) you would gain extra skill points upon the level up as if the enhanced Int were your actual Int. 3.5e removed that possibility, possibly due to some balance issue as skill points are the hallmark of several non-combative classes. Or perhaps they saw one too many instance of house rules bending the rules a little, such that the headband - perhaps only worn for a day or two prior to level up - granted the skillpoints, and they wanted to nip that in the bud. Another possibility is that it made it harder for mid and higher level 'official' games to judge whether or not the skill points on the character sheet had been fudged or not. For instance: "Oh, those extra four skill points? I had a headband of Intellect +4 for a couple levels a few levels back. It failed a save vs a dragon's breath weapon, however, so I no longer have it."So, using current RaW, the answer is unequivocably "NO."However, a GM can still house rule the issue, of course, but then it would only be a house rule, not a core rule.</blockquote>