
I recently upgraded my Hide armor to Masterwork Hide Armor which should drop my penalty check by 1 for my skills, but they remain -3.
I experimented further with dropping it to -1 and 0, but still the same result. So I then tried raising it to -4 and that did further increase the penalty to my skills.
For instance, my PC is a half-elf barbarian so my Climb should =skill ranks + ability modifier + racial modifier + 3. I currently have 18 (+4) STR and 1 rank. So Base Climb should be: 1+4+0+3 = 8, but then subtract my AC penalty of -2, the total should be 6, yet I'm still at 5.
Any ideas as to what could be wrong here?