Class Skill: Languages? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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M-bark

01-30-08, 02:45 AM
In the PHB, it says that for the skill Speak Language, a character must spend one skill point to gain access to a new language. My question is, if they only need to spend one skill point, why are there classes with Speak Language as a class skill?
M-bark

01-30-08, 02:59 AM
>.< Nevermind, I already found my answer.
LSMFT

01-30-08, 11:10 AM
And for the benefit of anyone else who has the same question and opens this thread:

You do not "spend a skill point" to learn a language; you buy a rank. For classes that have Speak Language as a class-skill, that rank costs one skill-point. For others, it is treated like buying a rank in any other cross-class skill: it costs two skill points.