The green "bonus" characteristic shown on the character page UI

[pyremind]

I find this really confusing. This green number that is shown as a bonus - is it the bonus that's relevant to the calculations? It seems to not be.. I'm not even sure after reading this cockamamie tooltip.

For instance my PER shows a very clear green +5 next to it. Oh good, that's my bonus right? Nope! If I mouse over it it shows a characteristic bonus of.. +4! What the hell.

[Ninth Hour]

The characteristic bonus is actually the value divided by 10, rounded down. For example, if your Agility is 40, your bonus for that stat is 40/10= 4. Similarly, if it is anywhere between 41 to 49, the bonus is 4.

The green number by the side is just the value by which the original stat was raised, for example by an item. So if your Agility score is normally 40 but you have an item that raises it by 5, the score will say 45, with a green +5 by the side. But your Agility bonus is still 4.

The game doesn't explain all this very well, so it is confusing to newcomers. I myself only knew this because the way the characteristic bonus is derived is one of the few rules borrowed from the original tabletop RPG.