Skill Points

Skill Points are spent to increase the Rank of your skills. At Character Creation, you gain a set number of Skill Points from your Race to spend in your Racial Favored Skills and a set number from your Class to spend in your Class Favored Skills.

You will additionally gain skill points at each level, based on your Race and Intelligence Score (as determined by the table to the right). Your character's total Skill Points per Level is calculated according to the following equation:

Spending Skill Points

Skill points are spent to gain new skills or to increase a currents skill's Rank by one (or more). The number of skill points required to increase the rank of a skill is dependent on the skill rank that you are trying to achieve (and can be determined using the table to the right). For example, to increase a Skill from Rank 3 to Rank 4 will cost three Skill points. Alternatively, to gain Rank 1 in a new skill costs only one Skill point. Lastly, to increase a Rank 2 skill to Rank 4 will cost five skill points (two skill points to increase from rank 2 to rank 3 plus three skill points to increase from Rank 3 to Rank 4). The skill points that you gain at every level can be spent on any skill, though they cannot be used to raise a skill above the Max Skill Rank.

Changing Intelligence and Skill Points

If after you Character has been created you increase or decrease your Intelligence score (usually through Magic) and the new score grants a different number of Skill Points per Level than your previous score, your skill points change retroactively. This means that an increase will grant you new skill points that you may spend as normal. A decrease in Intelligence will cause you to lose skill points, reducing skills of the highest rank preferentially until the deficit is made up. Note that this is only applicable if the change in Intelligence is long-term and not the result of a short-term power or ability.