Make intelligence rank increases retroactive

Started by RNN, January 14, 2021, 04:09:20 AM

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RNN

I've found it strange that intelligence increases never see a retroactive increase in skillpoints in EFUSS and the base skill system where this occurs for every other attribute. An increase in constitution gives you hitpoints for every level, an increase in wisdom improves your will save etc. Why shouldn't the same occur for intelligence? You might say that you weren't as intelligent in your previous levels so you missed the opportunity to learn, but I would say that constitution suffers a similar logical problem. You weren't as healthy as you were then so you miss the opportunity to fortify your body. Besides which, rationalising the abstraction of levels and their relation to skills is a futile exercise.




Dredi

Putting aside the arguement above for a moment.

I'm okay with giving characters who have a subracial increase to intelligence to get more SP at level 2 to fix what is realistically more of a limitation of the system rather than anything else and 4 SP and an EFUSS Point can be super useful.

That being said, I'm fairly certain that how intelligence works with skillpoints is hard coded, so you'd need to do some sort of real janky workaround to make any element of this work like scripted deleveling and stuff, then adding in extra unused skillpoints at every level which would both be a huge amount of work, but also a buff to wizards which seems fairly..unnecessary?

But then coming back to the Arguement you have put forward: Being healthier does retroactively make you mopre resilient as you're effectively able to push your body further and that kinda makes sense. However being more intelligence doesnt let you retroactively go back and be smarter to spend your time to learn more skills at a point where you were less intelligent. Further to that, it does provide its intel bonus to appropriate skills and increeased number of spells per day when its increased at the point its increased so its not like there is no benefit to increasing this, especially if you're a wizard.