Question on creating custom races for Pathfinder


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I've had to create a custom race for my pathfinder campaign. However, there's a wording that's hurting my brain and it's causing arguments. It's the Advance Ability Score traits and the special it says is what's causing the problem,

Advanced Traits (Ability Scores)
Advanced Charisma (4 RP)
Prerequisites: None.

Benefit: Members of this race receive a +2 racial bonus to Charisma.

Special: This bonus can be taken multiple times, but each additional time it is taken, its cost increases by 1 RP. Its effects stack.

The way I've read it this entire time is each time you take it, it adds 1 to the base cost so if you take it 2 times you would need to use 6 RP's. But, the other guy from the campaign says that it instead would be 15 RP's. Please, someone, help me clear this up. It's giving me such a headache trying to create this race in the first place as I'm porting it over from 3.5e. Many thanks.


The first time you want to take it, the cost is 4. The second time you want to take it, the cost is 5. The third time you want to take it, the cost is 6. You don't get +2 to an ability score for the cost of 1 RP!

It should be noted that 4 RP is a ridiculously small cost anyway, and one of the biggest reason the race builder is so imbalanced. You're already getting something a PC race shouldn't really get, so don't be greedy!


I'm not trying to be greedy. I'm merely confused. The way I understand what it says is how I described. The other guy wasn't exactly explaining it in the best way either so it was hard for me to understand even more. Which led to arguments and the like. Thank you though for clearing it up. It's going to make porting this race a whole lot easier.


Salekina wrote:
I'm not trying to be greedy. I'm merely confused.

That statement of mine was a bit tongue-in-cheek, I'm sorry I didn't translate that better into text.


1st time RP cost is 4
2nd time RP cost is 9 (4 from 1st, 5 from 2nd)
3rd time RP cost is 15 (4+5+6)

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Statboy wrote:

1st time RP cost is 4

2nd time RP cost is 9 (4 from 1st, 5 from 2nd)
3rd time RP cost is 15 (4+5+6)

in other words:

+2 cha costs 4 points
+4 cha costs 9 points
+6 charisma costs 15 points.

and none of this is actually balanced for a PC.

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