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Iituem
2007-01-01, 04:27 AM
In classic d20 D&D, numbers of skill ranks you can take per class level is dependent on your Int bonus. My questions are these: What if your Int score changes? Do you retroactively get more skills? On the attaining of the next level, do you get skill ranks according to the new Int score but retain the old ranks? Does an Int score affected by magical enhancements (circlet of intellect etc) get used for this, or would only the raw Int be used? If you gained Int from levels or inherent bonuses sufficient to up your modifier, would it then apply on the next level or retroactively to all previous levels?

If anyone can answer these, please do!

Pegasos989
2007-01-01, 04:36 AM
Magical items (like headband of intelligence) won't affect skill ranks but items rising it permanently (like the tomes that give inherit bonuses) do. You do not gain retroactively skill ranks but there was just a huge thread on it and a lot of people think you should gain those and thus houserule that you do.

By raw, however:
Matt the int 13 half-orc fighter gains 3 skillpoints per level. At 4th level, he rises int to 14 and from now on (including 4th level) he will gain 4 skillpoints per level but the first three levels won't get him any extra skillpoints, he just gains more from now on..

Just before attaining 5th level, he gets headband of intelligence. It won't affect directly to his skillpoints but he realizes that taking 5th level of fighter would be bad and changes to barbarian instead, thus gaining 6 skillpoints with the level.