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I have played DnD for 30 years now and am playing Pathfinder so much of the game mechanics are foreign to me. I have two questions (for now).

1) Is there a chart or formula that shows when attribute points, ability points, etc are given?

2) A chart that I did find about ability points says something to the effect that you get three skills when you put a point into an ability (for example I put a point in man-at-arms and I can choose man-at-arms skills). It looks like I can only chose three skills regardless of how many different abilities I assign points to. Shouldn't I get three skills (or spells) for each ability point?

-- david

1. I always used some Divinity Wiki to look things up.
The site has some useful other info too.

2. There's a difference between Classic and Enhanced Edition. In Classic, you could learn 3/5/7/9/unlimited spells for the corresponding ability levels 1/2/3/4/5.
The Enhanced Edition introduced the Novice/Adept/Master system which has different number of spells and adds another restriction. This could be called the 'spell tier'.
The Abilities page on the wiki has a good overview for the Enhanced Edition, for Classic, it's trivial as written above.

There's also some page on the wiki that shows the AP penalty you get when your ability level is too low. (e.g. you are able to learn any novice spell with ability level 1, but you get an AP penalty if the spell is spell level 5 or above, because ability level 1 corresponds with spell levels 1-4, ability level 2 with spell levels 5-8, etc. up to ability level 5. There is no spell in the game that has a spell level above 20 and I'm not even sure if there's a single one with L20 even.

With the 'any' above, I do *not* mean that you can learn every novice spell at the same time with ability level 1, you can have 3 novice spells, but you can choose any of the novice spells for these 3.

Thank you for the links. I had found other sites, but not that one.

-- david