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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9137520" data-attributes="member: 93670">Pretty sure the bar is even lower.  I don't think that the PC you describe even needs to take history or arcana given the wording on <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/personality-and-background#Proficiencies" target="_blank">backgrounds proficiencies</a> on phb125 even before getting to<a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/personality-and-background#CustomizingaBackground" target="_blank"> customizing a background</a> later on the same page.  The way it's written I'm pretty sure that PC could take stealth & deception  from wizard plus any other pair of skills from background as long as there are two skills offered  by each.  Because of the future tense word would without an "after taking" or similar clause the gates are left wide.</blockquote>