As part of following through on my plan to get into the biweekly Pathfinder Society game at Quarterstaff, I delayed and delayed making a character until that very afternoon. I’d known since flipping through the book back in early January that I wanted my character to be a bard, because I hadn’t played that class yet and it seemed like Pathfinder had given them some interesting tricks. Fortunately, one of the regular GMs, Neil, had gone so far as to put together a character building worksheet, including possible attribute spreads using Pathfinder Society’s point-buy system, so most of my work was done for me.
I had some points of confusion, in places you would expect: where Pathfinder differs from Dungeons & Dragons, I second-guessed a bit, trying to find the spot in the text where it would explicitly say how something worked. This particularly tripped me up with skills, since in Pathfinder, there are significantly fewer skill points to spread around. Until Annick pointed out that +3 bonus a character gets for putting a rank in a class skill filled in the “gap” left by only being able to put one point in a skill, compared to Dungeons & Dragons‘ method of giving you lots of skill points and a higher rank cap than character level, I didn’t get how that worked out at all. Continue reading →
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