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With Improved Sniping
Benefit: You take only a -10 penalty to your Stealth skill instead of -20 when sniping.

and Stealth Skill Unlock
With sufficient ranks in Stealth, you earn the following.

5 Ranks: Reduce the Stealth penalty from sniping by 10.

Does that make the penalty for sniping 0? Or are they both competence bonuses and cancel each other out?

The way it could be read is that with Improved Sniping you take only a -10 penalty instead of the -20 and then with the skill unlock it reduces the penalty by 10.

So my friends and I started with 3.5 D&D and are not converting to pathfinder. I'm finding Wizards get the absolute least benefit in converting, especially with the sever lack of class skills. I have never and don't plan on it taking cross class skills because I consider it as something my characters would never do. The fact that concentration is no longer even a skill just makes me mad. I got three skills that don't convert over in Deciper Script, concentration and Diplomacy (GM) gave as class skill for background. Is it worth it put those into Knowledges or just ignore the skill points all together?