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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BookBarbarian" data-source="post: 7764463" data-attributes="member: 6802553">And I think your missing Robert E. Howard's point with the character.He didn't have all sorts of training, yet he still had all sorts of competencies all stemming from being raised in a brutal land and culture where you had to be peak human to survive. He didn't have to learn how to be sneaky yo be a successful thief, he already knew that from stalking game, and being stalked by predators in Cimmeria. He didn't learn how to be a professional strangler, he could already Snap a Bullocks neck with his bare hands before he was considered a man. He didn't have to learn any of the skills of Piracy or even how to lead mercenaries, because his Competence at warfare was obvious to all who would follow him. All he learned was how to navigate through the nuances of civilization. Languages, reading and writing, sciences, and most importantly when to actively Barbarian his way out of them and when not too.Howard's Conan (and Kull for that matter) is a statement that not only it's better to be a wildman that a civilized man in the wild, but also in civilization since being civilized inherently teaches reliance on things that are impermanent.Edit: not that you couldn't multiclass him. I sure did in my example. I just don't think it's accurate to say he trained to learn Rogue abilities.</blockquote>