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In PF1, raising Con or Int as you leveled up had retroactive effect, granting additional hit points and skill ranks as if you had enjoyed the higher ability score from level 1.
But I don't see anything to that effect in the Playtest rules.
Is that correct? Are the benefits of these increases only prospective, not retroactive?
If so, that significantly affects character planning, making it much more valuable to invest in Con/Int at level 1 and "catch up" your other scores later. For that reason, I'd prefer that the ability boosts do have retroactive effect.
Yes they are retroactive. It's a terrible place to have it but the magic item quality potent addresses that.
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Yes they are retroactive. It's a terrible place to have it but the magic item quality potent addresses that.
Okay, thanks. Potent (p. 345) definitely suggests that ability boosts to Con and Int from leveling up *should* be retroactive. But (of course) that does need to be put in the actual leveling up/ability boost rules!
I agree that it should be more clear. We scoured the book the other day trying to find this very thing but couldn't. Thanks for the page number reference.
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I had this same issue the other day and bugged the design team about it, my understanding is that it's on their radar and they'll be looking into calling out the retroactive nature of the boosts in a more intuitive place, though I don't have a timeline for when that might happen.