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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angel Tarragon" data-source="post: 4297676" data-attributes="member: 23733">Changing Ability ScoresOver time, the ability scores your character starts with can change. Ability scores can increases with no limit. Points at which ability changes occur include the following:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add 1 point to any score upon attaining 3rd level and at every third level your character attains thereafter (6th, 9th, 12th, 15th and 18th level).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add 1 point to every ability score upon attaining 5th level and at every 5th level your character attains thereafter (10th, 15th and 20th).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many spells and magical affects temporarily increase or decrease ability scores. The ray of enfeeblement spell reduces a creature's Strength and the bull's strength spell increases it. Sometimes a spell hampers a character, reducing his or her ability score. A character trapped by an entangle spell, for example, acts as if their Dexterity score were 4 points lower than it really is.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Several magic items improve ability scores as long as the character is using them. For example, gloves of Dexterity improve the wearer's Dexterity score. Note that a magic item of this type can't change an ability score by more than +6.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some rare magic items can boost an ability score permanently as can a wish spell. Such an increase is called an inherent bonus. An ability score can't have more than an inherent bonus of +5.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Poisons, diseases and other affects can temporarily harm an ability (ability damage). Ability points lost to damage. Ability points lost to damage return on their own at a rate of 1 point per day for each damaged ability.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As a character ages, some ability scores go up and others go down. Refer to the end of the entry of your chosen race for details.</li> </ul>When your ability score changes, all attributes associated with that score change accordingly. For example, when Nalessia becomes a 3rd level wizard, she decides to increase her Intelligence score to 19. That score gives her a 3rd level bonus spell (which she'll pick up upon attaining 5th level, when she becomes able to cast 3rd level spells) and it also increases the number of skill points she gets per level from +4 to +5. As a new 3rd level character, she can get the skill points immediately after raising her intelligence, so she'll get 7 points for attaining 3rd level in the wizard class. She does not retroactively get additional skill points for her previous levels (that is, skill points she would have gained if she had an Intelligence score of 19 at 1st level).</blockquote>

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