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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5521830" data-attributes="member: 1210">Here's my fix for gaining proficiencies, which I've mashed together with languages and skills as well:SPECIAL TRAININGCharacters may spend time and/or money training in order to gain certain skills and abilities, including new languages, proficiencies and secondary skills.  When a character is training, it is an all-consuming activity that does not leave room for adventuring or carousing.GAINING LANGUAGESA character can learn a new language well enough to get by in two months minus one day per point of Intelligence.  Intensive instruction from a native speaker can cut this time in half, although this often requires payment of some kind; a typical language tutor in a city might charge 1 gp per day.    Creatures with an Intelligence score of 1 cannot understand a language.  Creatures with an Intelligence score of 2 can learn a rudimentary understanding of a few dozen terms, typically inferior to a dog.  Creatures with Intelligence scores of 3 or higher can learn up to one language per point of Intelligence.     If a creature has learned all the languages it can but wishes to learn a new one, it may “forget” a language that it has not used in some time and has never used with great frequency (the DM must ajudicate this- an elf could not typically unlearn Elven, for instance) in order to learn a new language, but this process adds another two weeks to the time required.GAINING WEAPON AND ARMOR PROFICIENCIESA character can gain new armor and weapon proficiencies via intensive instruction and hard practice.  Gaining proficiency in a specific weapon, armor, helm or shield type requires 2 months of intensive practice or one month of training under the tutelage of a warrior already skilled in the proficiency being sought.  A creature with at least one level of fighter may gain proficiency in a  weapon group instead of a specific weapon this way.  A creature reduces the time required to gain proficiency by one day per point of Intelligence.     A higher level character needs a higher level trainer.  The services of a typical trainer for weapon or armor proficiency typically costs between 100 and 500 gp per level of the character being trained.GAINING NEW SECONDARY AND TERTIARY SKILLSGaining a secondary skill is a time consuming process.  A character must spend three years minus a number of months equal to her Intelligence score to gain a new secondary skill.  This time must be spent apprenticed to a master who teaches the character the skill. If a character wishes to gain some new level of skill without spending years doing so, she can instead spend six months working under a master to gain a tertiary skill.  A tertiary skill gives a character a +1 bonus to skill checks involving the tertiary skill.  A character reduces the time it takes to learn a tertiary skill by three days per point of Intelligence.Typically, hiring the services of a master to train a character in a secondary or tertiary skill costs between 10 and 100 gp per month.</blockquote>

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