Skill points question

[Mord-o]

if i purchase a headband of vast intelligence for a character in society, do i get to backtrack on gaining skills from the first level on...say i am barbarian lvl 5 and have an 8 intelligence the headband would boost to give me a 10 int..would i be able to pick up 5 more ranks in skills this way or just give me a better check on int skills?
thanks =)

[The Sleeping Dragon]

Hey Mord-o,

By no means am I the expert on these things, but I will say that it works similarly to your constitiution stat. In other words, yes it does recoup the difference in skill points gained.

Cheers mate!

[Dragnmoon]

Mord-o wrote:

if i purchase a headband of vast intelligence for a character in society, do i get to backtrack on gaining skills from the first level on...say i am barbarian lvl 5 and have an 8 intelligence the headband would boost to give me a 10 int..would i be able to pick up 5 more ranks in skills this way or just give me a better check on int skills?

thanks =)

When you take an Head band with an int bonus, it comes with a skill (you pick the skill, it would be wasted if you pick one you already have skill points in) for every +2 bonus. All past skill points from the extra Int bonus from prior levels go to that skill and all future ones as well.

So you are aware, this is not a pathfinder society specific question, future questions like this would be better served in the Pathfinder RPG rules board or a search in that boards since this has been covered there many times.

[Vinyc Kettlebek]

You do not retroactively get extra skill points from the Intelligence boost from a Headband. Instead the Headband grants you 1 skill point per character level in one specific skill (chosen at time of purchase). A +2 headband would grant one skill, a +4 headband would grant two skills and a +6 headband grants three skills.

[Chris Lambertz]

Moved thread.