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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6591133" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>Proficiency is not, in any way I can think of, related to what can and cannot be used in general.  It's just, generally speaking, about what bonus or penalty you get for using it.  So I don't see it being a guideline for "you cannot use this thing as two different things".  In addition, as I stated earlier, you can be proficient with the use of a holy symbol as a component for your spells, and with shields, and we know the rules let you use that shield with the holy symbol as both simultaneously.  So the one example we have of two proficiencies for one item says you can do it.  The only other one I can think of is an instrument as a spell component and as a tool to entertain simultaneously - two proficiencies, and again the rules let you do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>