Intelligence and skill points?

[Fluffy The Gengar]

So i used to play this game as a kid and now 20 years later i find out it´s on steam and just had to get it.

But as i´m now older i´ve come to realize that young me had no idea what the hell he was doing and it´s a miracle i got as far as i did.
(the first new char i made yesterday was a half-orc i gave 8 intelligence and i was really confused if all half-orcs spoke in such a hilarious/dumb way only realizing later how intelligence affected your speech options.)

One of the things i´m now wondering about is how does intelligence affect your skill points?
Does 11 intelligence give you 1 or 2 more skill points than if you have 9?
Or how does it work? because it know it does have some kind of effect on it.

[Captain Dickärd]

Classes give you skill points based on the class + your intelligence modifier (The little number beside int that goes up every 2 ranks.)

So if you look at barbarian on the wiki you can see it gives 4+ int modifier skill points. Some classes give more or less than this. https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Barbarian

A nonhuman barbarian with 12 int would get 5 skill points per level for example. Humans get an extra int modifier worth of skillpoints.

[Fluffy The Gengar]

So does adding points to intelligence increase the intelligence modifier or does it only go up every 2 ranks no matter how much or how little you´ve put into intelligence?

[DrLoboto]

From the wiki, on Ability: "in the original campaign, having an intelligence score under 9 renders the player character unable to speak properly" (this does not apply to all modules, only if the author provided special options for this situation, like in the OC)

Anyway, the modfier only goes up at even numbers of abilty scores, so INT 12, 14, 16, 18. Raising INT from 12 to 13, for example won't change the skill modifier.

So adding points to Intelligence does increase the skill modifier, but only by 1 for each even Intelligence score you reach. During character creation costs for raising ability scores increase above 14 (you have to invest 2 points for raising the score by 1) and above 16 (you have to invest 3 points for raising the score by 1).

So if you start at INT 8 (-1 skill modifier), every 2 points you invest give you +1 skill modifier, until you reach 14, then 4 more points give you another +1 skill modifier, and above 16, you'd need to spend additional 6 points to reach the next even number 18 and get the max of +4 skill modifier. That's only worth it if Intelligence is your main attribute though, that is if you're a wizard, and even then it's rather costly at character creation. You will get the chance to raise one ability score for free every few levels.

[Fluffy The Gengar]

oh ok thx