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So I feel the need to raise the issue of Comprehensive Education up. The human alternate racial trait has come up in the Pathfinder Society group I play in, and I've been unable to find any official FAQ or clarification of it.
Comprehensive Education: Humans raised with skilled teachers draw upon vast swathes of knowledge gained over centuries of civilization. They gain all Knowledge skills as class skills, and they gain a +1 racial bonus on skill checks for each Knowledge skill that they gain as a class skill from their class levels. This racial trait replaces skilled.
We haven't had any players push the interpretation that it grants you a cumulative bonus to all skill checks... But we've had a couple players push an interpretation that instead of a +1 to each Knowledge skill that is gained as a class skill from class levels... That it is a cumulative bonus where if you have 10 Knowledges as class skills, then you get +10 to every knowledge. The problem is obviously the word "for" rather than "to". But without anything official its been frustratingly difficult to argue against. There's a Wizard with +19 to every single Knowledge at level 1, which is absurd.
I'm hoping somebody has an official clarification to point.
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It's a Campaign Setting book, so there won't be an FAQ or anything official, but you are correct that it is a +1 if you have that Knowledge as a class skill, otherwise it makes it a class skill.
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It's a Campaign Setting book, so there won't be an FAQ or anything official, but you are correct that it is a +1 if you have that Knowledge as a class skill, otherwise it makes it a class skill.
Thanks Mark! So glad to get something at least semi-official from a Designer. Should be enough to prevent any further arguments over it.
It's a Campaign Setting book, so there won't be an FAQ or anything official, but you are correct that it is a +1 if you have that Knowledge as a class skill, otherwise it makes it a class skill.Thanks Mark! So glad to get something at least semi-official from a Designer. Should be enough to prevent any further arguments over it.
Normally, my interpretation wouldn't really be helpful to you on a Campaign Setting book, but I happened to help out and do a pass on a lot of the rules in that one, and in this case, I wrote the original version of the current benefit for that racial trait.
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Normally, my interpretation wouldn't really be helpful to you on a Campaign Setting book, but I happened to help out and do a pass on a lot of the rules in that one, and in this case, I wrote the original version of the current benefit for that racial trait.It's a Campaign Setting book, so there won't be an FAQ or anything official, but you are correct that it is a +1 if you have that Knowledge as a class skill, otherwise it makes it a class skill.Thanks Mark! So glad to get something at least semi-official from a Designer. Should be enough to prevent any further arguments over it.
Original? What was changed to the current version? Also given that you wrote the original, and RAI is supposed to trump RAW... Well your post pretty clearly establishes the intent.
Also could it not be argued that bonuses from the same source don't stack? Or is that only untyped bonuses?