I’m trying to understand how a PC might earn more Skills and/ or Tool Proficiencies as he or she goes up levels? Imagine I am in a campaign set upon a series of islands and I want my Wizard with a Hermit background to learn how to sail a ship and maybe become someone Athletic. How can I do it?
Your proficency bonus goes up, making you better at the skills you have, but you do not learn new skills.
But you can take a feat, or possibly do some downtime studying.
Pyrate_Jib wrote:
Plus there is apparently a skill module in dmg
Multiclassing is also an option!
Are these house rules or assumptions? I thought of the multi-class option but a Feat might make more sense.
mrpopstar wrote:
mellored wrote:
If I understand correctly feats now will be more powerful than in previous edition, meaning, one feat will give you not just one skill proficiency, but a couple, probably even tools proficiency.If I understand correctly feats now will be more powerful than in previous edition, meaning, one feat will give you not just one skill proficiency, but a couple, probably even tools proficiency.
I suppose soon we shall have an erratta (or the DMG) that might give us a hard and fast rule.
You can learn languages and tool proficiencies with 250 days worth of downtime. The amount of downtime you get will vary from campaign to campaign - I usually assume they have some downtime they are spending while travelling or doing other tasks (ie - practicing playing the flute while on the road) and thus give them a couple effective days for every week of in-game play.
This does not cover skills.
Pyrate_Jib wrote:
Knowledge Domain cleric gets two skills. College of Lore bard gets three skills. 3rd level Battle Master fighter gets proficiency in artisan's tools. Assassin rogues get disguise kit and poisoner's kit profs. The Warlock invocation Beguiling Influence grants Persuasion and Deception proficiency. Skilled feat gives three skills or tool proficiencies.