Languages and Intelligence Increases


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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

Do you get additional bonus languages when your intelligence increases during play, such as when you put an ability score point into it at 4th, 8th, etc.

What if you got the intelligence bonus from a magical item, such as a headband of vast intellect?


I would hazard a yes, considering that you also get retroactive skills points.

Sovereign Court

It's in the FAQ. You usually look there.

FAQ wrote:

Intelligence: If my Intelligence modifier increases, can I select another bonus language?

Yes. For example, if your Int is 13 and you reach level 4 and apply your ability score increase to Int, this increases your Int bonus from +1 to +2, which grants you another bonus language.
Technically, Int-enhancing items such as a headband of vast intelligence should grant a specific language (in the same way they do for skill ranks).

Grand Lodge

Yes.


Hmm. Dot. I was always under the impression that additional bonus languages was only applied at character creation. That's how it's always been run when I played.

Sovereign Court

Artemis Moonstar wrote:
Hmm. Dot. I was always under the impression that additional bonus languages was only applied at character creation. That's how it's always been run when I played.

That text is still in the book but things have been clarified that all effects of stat increases are retroactive or rather that anything suggesting otherwise is a remnant of 3.5 D&D.

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