Every time you gain a level and choose to level up in your favored class, you get the favored class bonus. Each time, you can choose whether to add a single hitpoint, a single skill point, or a particular racial/favored class bonus.
For example: Half Orc chooses his favored class to be Barbarian. At first level he is a Barbarian and takes an extra skill point. At 2nd level he takes another level of Barbarian but this time he takes a hit point intsead. At 3rd level he takes a level of fighter, so he gets no favored class bonus. At 4th level he takes another level of Barbarian, but this time he chooses the half-orc/barbarian bonus from the APG and gains an extra round of rage per day. At 5th level he takes another level of Barbarian and chooses to add another hit point. And so on and so forth.
This thread is helpful to me as I'm just starting to convert some older 3.0/3.5 characters for use in a Pathfinder Freeport game and was creating some first level PCs. So if I read Father Dale's reply correctly, even at first level, assuming my initial class is my favored class, I get the choice to take a bonus hit point, a bonus skill point, or some other favored class bonus like the APG includes.
So if we say I have an 18 INT, I want the skill rank, and my class offers 2 + INT skill points per level and my race is human then to start I get a total of 2 + 4 (INT bonus) +1 (human) +1 (favored class) = 8 skill points, which at first level I need to spend on 8 different skills since the max ranks for a skill equals my level which is one.
Correct?
L
Correct.
Great thanks!
This thread is helpful to me as I'm just starting to convert some older 3.0/3.5 characters for use in a Pathfinder Freeport game and was creating some first level PCs. So if I read Father Dale's reply correctly, even at first level, assuming my initial class is my favored class, I get the choice to take a bonus hit point, a bonus skill point, or some other favored class bonus like the APG includes.
So if we say I have an 18 INT, I want the skill rank, and my class offers 2 + INT skill points per level and my race is human then to start I get a total of 2 + 4 (INT bonus) +1 (human) +1 (favored class) = 8 skill points, which at first level I need to spend on 8 different skills since the max ranks for a skill equals my level which is one.
Correct?
L
The quick way to do a conversion is add either HP equal to the NPC's levels in their highest class, or add another skill with ranks equal to that value. (Of course, this assumes their hit-die size didn't change and their skills are all transferable, which is often not the case)
So my biggest question, PERSONALLY, is.... do these additional skill points you can get for leveling stack?
I don't understand this question. Each time you take the skill point favored class bonus, you get a single skill point. You're not increasing the number of skill points you get each level--it's just a one time (per level) thing.
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So my biggest question, PERSONALLY, is.... do these additional skill points you can get for leveling stack?
They're indistinguishable from other skill points. You spend them on skill ranks in the same way as those you get for your class, race and Intelligence. You can't have more ranks in a skill than your character level.