Skill rank bonus for Favored Class

[David Lewis 930]

Is the +3 a bonus to the rank (ie +4 total) or is it instead of (+3)

[BloodyManticore]

Are you talking about a favored class bonus of a skill point or class skills. If class skills you get a +3 added to checks with the skill the max ranks are still your hd

[RainyDayNinja]

Are you talking about the bonus for putting a rank into a class skill?

CRB wrote:

You gain a +3 bonus on all class skills that you put ranks into.

That's a separate bonus from the +1 bonus you get from the rank itself.

[Zhayne]

You can only have a total number of ranks in a skill equal to your Hit Dice/Character Level, but you can have any number of other bonuses atop those ranks.

For example ... my Kitsune Ninja, at level 1, put a rank in Acrobatics. That's a class skill, so he gets a bonus of +3. He has a 20 DEX, so that's another +5 bonus. Add his racial +2 bonus to Acrobatics, and while only having one rank in Acrobatics, his total bonus was

1+3+5+2=+11

[DM_Blake]

To be clear. Ranks are the "points" you put into a skill. That's all. Whenever you see reference to "skill ranks" it refers to "points" spent on the skill.

Bonuses to the skill are entirely separate. The class skill bonus is a "bonus", not a "skill rank". Not the same thing.

(Note, you get the +3 bonus when the skill in question is a "class skill" - this has nothing to do with "favored class" which is something else entirely)

In order to get the class skill bonus, you must have at least one rank in the skill. Therefore, you get 1 from the rank +3 from the class bonus, plus any other applicable modifiers (ability score, feats, traits, racial, etc.).

[David Lewis 930]

Excellent :-) That cleared the confusion up perfectly.
The other half of the question is;
Is that just a one off bonus, or is it a bonus for EACH point you put into into the class skill ..... or am I just getting greedy :-)

[Rynjin]

It's a one-off.