Questions about reading starting attributes

[Aranian]

I thought about that, but wouldn't that screw with a character created at a higher level? If the player adds two class levels first he won't be warned if he only then increases his stats.

I know that is a corner case, but I want to do it right and learn more about the editor. As that is one of the more harmless rules I'll have to implement... ^^

[AndrewD2]

In general I require my players to go 1 level at at time to make sure feat selections and such are valid when they take them.

[Mathias]

Originally Posted by Aranian

I tried that (see the edits to my previous post), but that field also contains later stat increases unfortunately (and "Ability Score (Starting)" adjustments, but one shouldn't need those, I think).

The intent of the Ability Score (starting) adjustment is for things that count as racial modifiers or other core modifiers to a stat - the permanent adjustments that alter all the same things a racial mod would alter, like starting languages.

(It's actually somewhat left over from 3.5, where the INT increases every 4 levels would not increase your starting languages, but in Pathfinder, those later INT increases do add to starting languages, so the distinction of a starting field, intended to only be changed at 1st level is no longer really needed, but it's too late to remove at this point).