Please, for the love of the gods, if you're going to take up space in my forge then make yourself useful.
-Ingleheimer Smith, Primordial
Proficiencies have a variety of uses, the least of which being an easy reference explaining what our characters can and cannot do. By the books, there's plenty of ways to gain differing lists of proficiencies - weapons, skills, tools, and languages - such as through our characters' races, classes, backgrounds, or even feats picked up along the way. Still, it's possible for a character to learn more than this through downtime, provided you have a place to study the related skill and someone to teach it to you.
A character who owns a workshop (see
The Bazaar, Downtime, and Craft) is considered the workshop's
Master. Depending on the shop's quality, the Master of the workshop can support one or two Apprentices. What can be trained depends on your workshop, and whether you're the master or the apprentice.
Regardless of other factors, proficiency training takes four weeks (one month) from the day training began before it's considered complete. Training is always logged in the workshop it's being done in. A character can only train one proficiency at a time. Why one month? Well, time in the Chromanexus moves at a rate of about 3 days IC to one day OOC, and its generally agreed that twelve weeks (3 months) is necessary for one to be considered "basically proficient" in a subject. So, the same applies here.
A character can learn a maximum of six (6) additional weapon and skill proficiencies. However, there is no limit to the number of tool or language proficiencies a character can learn. Proficiency with Light, Medium, or Heavy armor cannot be gained through proficiency training as either a Master or an Apprentice.
Master
The Master of the workshop can train proficiencies associated with the related tools and scores for their workshop. As the shop's master, there is no cost to learn these proficiencies - simply note in your workshop that you're beginning proficiency training and when it will be completed, like so:
Iovaerix begins training Arcana, ending March 4th, 2023.
However, the only way to gain proficiencies in areas beyond the scope of your workshop is take up an apprenticeship at another player's shop - see below. You can be an apprentice elsewhere even while acting as a Master for your own workshop.
Some proficiencies are restricted to specific shops, as outlined below. If you are not a master of one of these shops, the only way to gain one of these proficiencies is by taking an apprenticeship with someone who is proficient with the skill.
- The Master of a Forge is the only individual that can universally train with any simple or martial weapon.
- The Master of a Jeweler can learn firearms, but not other ranged weapons.
- A Master Scrollbinder can learn languages.
In either case, you as the Master have the authority then to turn around and teach what you know to other characters - your apprentices. You cannot train someone on something you're not proficient in, even if you're in the right workshop for it. You're free to set conditions on another character earning an apprenticeship with you, which may or may not include charging tuition or something like that ("cover my upkeep expenses this month, and I'll train you for free" <- a really clever way of charging 200 GP for work and still sounding charitable). The choice is yours. Any negotiations and exchanges should be logged in your workshop.
Apprentice
An Apprentice is listed in a Master's shop as a sort of employee or co-worker. While an Apprentice is unable to list their own items in the shop without the permission of the shop's owner or Master, they're still permitted to work in and around the workshop as part of whatever work agreement they have with the owner. This includes proficiency training.
Proficiency training as an apprentice must be done with the permission of the Master. The Master is free to dictate prices and conditions for beginning training, but once the training is begun, it's assumed training is complete (even if the Master ends up closing down shop before the work is done) when the four week period finishes. Log your training in your Master's workshop like so:
Orion begins training Arcana under Iovaerix, ending April 1st, 2023.
What are you allowed to learn? Anything the Master knows and is willing to train you on, provided you have room to learn more (if you've already learned six weapons and skills, for example, then you can only learn tools and languages - your head is full).
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