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Be creative, but also remember to tailor your background to your current character level.  A first level character probably hasn't had much opportunity to become a famous dragon-slayer, for example.
Be creative, but also remember to tailor your background to your current character level.  A first level character probably hasn't had much opportunity to become a famous dragon-slayer, for example.


==Allocate Skill Ranks==
==Determine Skills==
Determine the number of skill ranks your character gets based on his class and Intelligence modifier (and any other bonuses, such as the bonus received by humans).  Then allocate these ranks to desired skills, but remember that you cannot have more ranks than your level in any one skill (for a starting character, this is usually one).
Skills play an important role in how your character is defined.  The skills your character chooses to focus upon and develop, as well as those skills your character chooses to neglect, help you to describe additional facets of your character's personality.  No character will be able to achieve greatness with every skill, so it is important to choose a few skills you wish to hone into powerful tools, which skills you will only dabble in, and which skills your character would put little or no effort into at all.


Each level thereafter, your character gains a number of skill ranks dependent upon your class plus your Intelligence modifier. Investing a rank in a skill represents a measure of training in that skill.
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:; Skill Basis
{{:Skill Basis}}
:All characters have a Skill Basis modifier which is the 'foundation knowledge' your character has in all skills.  This represents the fact that all player characters are exceptional, even in small ways, from NPC's.  The Skill Basis is the foundation number from which you calculate your skill rolls, by adding in your stat modifiers, your ranks, and any magic item or feat bonuses, as well and any other miscellaneous bonuses.


:Your Skill Basis starts out as a +1 at first level, and every four levels goes up by any additional +2, so +2 at fourth level, +3 at eighth, +4 at twelfth, and so on to a Skill Basis of +9 at thirty-second level. Your Skill Basis increase reflects your greater knowledge of all things as you grow more world-wise, and can represent the 'school of hard knocks', the result of overhearing scholars talking in bars, hours of dedicate solitary study, and many other things. Your Skill Basis increases in the same levels and for the same reasons that you get additional stat points as you level up: Heroes are heroic, and their prowess is reflected in many ways.  
===Skill Ranks===
: Determine the number of skill ranks your character gets based on his class and Intelligence modifier (and any other bonuses, such as the bonus received by humans).  Then allocate these ranks to desired skills, but remember that you cannot have more ranks than your level in any one skill (for a starting character, this is usually one).


:; Class Skills
: Each level thereafter, your character gains a number of skill ranks dependent upon your class plus your Intelligence modifier. Investing a rank in a skill represents a measure of training in that skill.
: Each class has a number of favored skills, called class skills. You may choose one skill from all the ones available at character creation, and re-map that skill so that it now is modified by any ability score you wish, rather than the ability score it is naturally associated with. It is completely possible for a durable character to be able to Intimidate people based upon their Constitution, or for a very intelligent person to Intimidate people based upon their Intelligence. The durable person may Intimidate by twisting their head until their neck pops like a dry stick, while the intelligent one makes a sly, brutal comment. The game result is the same in either case. This re-mapping may be applied to any skill which qualifies as a class skill, and any class skill may be modified by (remapped to) any ability score.


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{{Template:Skill Ranks By Class}}
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==Choose Feats==
==Choose Feats==

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