How to apply and actually RECEIVE extra languages

[cmastah]

I keep reading that if you have a high enough intelligence you can also know several additional languages, how does that work out? The wizard in my party can speak around five ADDITIONAL languages at level 1, does he get one additional language per modifier or am I missing something? We're playing PF for the first time and I assumed you HAD to take the linguist (skill/feat?) thing for each additional language.

[Axl]

One extra language per +1 Int modifier. Linguistics skill gives more languages on top.

[Litchfield]

What Axl said. If you are worried about him knowing too many languages (or dislike that by level five he would be a world class linguist with 10+ languages at his disposal) you can house rule a change to linguistics. One suggestion is to separate languages into written/read and spoken therefor requiring two linguistics points for an entire language. Another is to eliminate bonus languages from linguistics altogether, making the skill more about the ability to understand common patterns in language than outright knowing languages.

[Sporge]

To be fair language with a wizard tends to become a non-issue anyway.

But yeah you normally get to add you int modifier number of languages to languages known, but they are dictated slightly by his race. Human may be not but I know some races have a limited pool to choose from.

[cmastah]

Thanks for the info, I'm not actually annoyed at all, I just wanted to make sure we were doing it right. (I'm also not the GM for this campaign :p)

[Mojorat]

one thing is if the wizards int goes up after chargen he doesn't add more languages.

[Jeraa]

Mojorat wrote:

one thing is if the wizards int goes up after chargen he doesn't add more languages.

Sure he does.

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Permanent Bonuses: Ability bonuses with a duration greater than 1 day actually increase the relevant ability score after 24 hours. Modify all skills and statistics related to that ability. This might cause you to gain skill points, hit points, and other bonuses. These bonuses should be noted separately in case they are removed.

Additional languages known is a bonus granted by your Intelligence score. That gets increased, you get more languages. There is nothing stating you do not gain languages when your Intelligence increases, so you do gain them. Unless there is a specific rule stating you do not gain the languages, the general rule of "gaining all other bonuses" applies.

Or at least thats how James Jacobs said it works.

Edit: Of course, he also said thst you don't, as well.

The description of Intelligence does say "languages known at the start of the game." However, the book also says:

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Each race lists the languages your character automatically knows, as well as a number of bonus languages. A character knows a number of additional bonus languages equal to his or her Intelligence modifier (see page 17).

No mention of starting languages, just additional languages known. So it seems to be an "Ask your DM" issue.