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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5620653" data-attributes="member: 3424">I would say that it is up to the DM and players to narrate the retraining in a manner that is consistent with whatever level of realism they want to achieve in their games.Since retraining is (currently, at least) tied to the rules for levelling up, whatever narration that is used to justify how the character gains new abilities from his new level (and thus "can suddenly do things at an expert level that [he has] never before attempted") can also be used to justify the new abilities from retraining. All that is needed is for a sufficiently long training period to make it plausible that the lost abilities have atrophied. Yes, you can deliberately wreck your own sense of verismilitude if you focus on the fact that the rules do not prescribe a minimum length of time required for retraining and feel forced by the rules to treat retraining as a binary on/off switch. However, that does not mean that the concept of retraining itself is videogamey, or that others cannot implement it in a manner that is more congruent with reality if they want.</blockquote>