Hey all quick question on some feats and insight bonuses. First question is can "Skill Focus" and "Skill Synergy" affect the same skill? They say it can't stack but I'm assuming that it means you can't get the same named feat and apply it to the same skill kinda stack. Also do can you have multiple insight bonuses. I don't see anywhere stating that you cant.
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Bonuses of the same type don't stack, with a few exceptions (such as some circumstance bonuses).
You'll find insight bonuses to be rather ubiquitous, so choose them wisely.
You could, in theory, take Skill Synergy to make something a class skill, and then take Skill Focus in it for the +3 Insight bonus, but you wouldn't get any benefit from applying Skill Synergy to a skill you already have as a class skill.
You could, in theory, take Skill Synergy to make something a class skill, and then take Skill Focus in it for the +3 Insight bonus, but you wouldn't get any benefit from applying Skill Synergy to a skill you already have as a class skill.
If one or both were already class skills, you gain a +2 insight bonus to those skill checks instead
You can get a benefit from Skill Synergy let's says your theme already made a skill you want to have a class skill or you got the sweet +1 unnamed bonus from theme for a skill. Now you want another skill to be class skill and push the other skill a bit like the skill from your theme.
Theme is making the skill Stealth a class skill and you also want Culture to be class skill and push the Stealth skill further.
Go ahead and pick the skills Culture and Stealth for Skill Synergy.
So now Culture is a class skill and Stealth gets the +1 bouns from theme and a +2 insight from Skill Synergy Feat.
The Feat Skill Focus will improve the Stealth skill in the above example only by 1 because +3 insight is higher then +2 insight bonus but that would be a waste.
You can of course pick Skill Focus for Culture to get a +3 insight bonus there.