D&D 5E Beasts of the Earth

[WayOfTheFourElements]

No, it's in the down-time rules. You can learn proficiencies in specific weapons and armour just as you can learn languages and tools. It just requires time and gold, not xp.

Can you please provide a page number? Just so we can ensure we're all on the same page.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

OK. And what about the barbarian?

The barbarian is crushed under the gate.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

The barbarian is crushed under the gate.

Unless this companion attacks him with a club every round (thereby allowing the barbarian to sustain his rage), right?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Unless this companion attacks him with a club every round (thereby allowing the barbarian to sustain his rage), right?

No, he is crushed anyway.

Because barbarians are dumb.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

But the elf gained no XP and therefore could not have gained a level or taken a feat.

Again, the rules are written expecting PC adventurers who are earning XP through adventuring. They're not intended to simulate circumstances like three hundred years of intense study -- that's stuff for NPCs or perhaps backstory. So if you get into those circumstances as a DM, you have to decide what seems reasonable. Maybe you use the downtime training rules notwithstanding their official limits. Maybe you use _re_training rules and have the elf change a feat or even a level he already has, ruling that his existing skills have atrophied because of his focus on this new field. Or maybe you just say that three centuries of study does net you a sum of XP. It's up to you.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

No, he is crushed anyway.

Because barbarians are dumb.

Hm...ok. So if a raging barbarian performs a feat of strength (not holding up a portcullis), he can't sustain his rage for more than one round unless his companions continue to him?

Or are barbarians simply just dumb and by their sheer dumbness, they do not exist in your game world or are immediately smitten by Zeus?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

So a lion's roar is no scarier than its gnomish master's?

Make a Charisma (intimidate) check. It doesn't matter what the gnome or the BotE is doing - it's an attempt to intimidate, the resolution is down to a skill roll.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

smitten by Zeus

That's something else entirely.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Again, the rules are written expecting PC adventurers who are earning XP through adventuring. They're not intended to simulate circumstances like three hundred years of intense study -- that's stuff for NPCs or perhaps backstory. So if you get into those circumstances as a DM, you have to decide what seems reasonable. Maybe you use the downtime training rules notwithstanding their official limits. Maybe you use _re_training rules and have the elf change a feat or even a level he already has, ruling that his existing skills have atrophied because of his focus on this new field. Or maybe you just say that three centuries of study does net you a sum of XP. It's up to you.

Good. So some rules of the game world are not recorded in the rule books. Therefore an ape might be able learn to wield a club and wear armor. Cool.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Good. So some rules of the game world are not recorded in the rule books. Therefore an ape might be able learn to wield a club and wear armor. Cool.

On that basis, so might a table.