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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 369393" data-attributes="member: 284">Show me a halfling skiprock anywhere in the core rules.    They didn't show up until Sword and Fist, and were not part of the halfling culture as defined in the PHB.Halflings are good at throwing things in general, not one item in particular.   Nothing in the PHB indicates that have any special proficiency with skiprocks. (Especially since they are a weapon that didn't even exist at the time!) So longswords and bows are unique to elves, and that's why they are automatically proficient with them?   Weapon proficiency is a result of training, not a genetic endowment.  Elves just live a long time and as part of their upbringing received training with a few common weapons.  Why would a half-orc that is raised with humans be automatically trained in the use of an exotic weapon? Why would a half-orc that is raised with orcs be automatically trained in the use of an exotic weapon when full blooded orcs aren't proficient with it?  (Check the MM section on Orcs.)Why do the orcs in the MM use Greataxes and not double axes, if they are automatically proficient with double-axes?  As a matter of fact, I don't see any mention of exotic weapon proficiencies in the MM descriptions of any of the PHB races either.  If these are proficiencies that every member of that race automatically has, don't you think it would be mentioned in their MM descriptions?</blockquote>