Gaining Proficiencies

Is it your character's dream to learn how to play clarinet? Is there a card game that they should be able to play thanks to family poker night? A language that they want to learn because their crush speaks it?

Sometimes, your character wants to gain a new proficiency. This article explains the Proficiency Ticket, a special item that you can purchase from the #shop to gain a new artistan's tool, gaming set, instrument, language, special tool kit, or vehicle proficiency for your character.

Proficiency Tickets

What you can learn through a Proficiency Ticket

Standard Proficiencies

• Racial Languages
• Instruments
• Artisan’s tools
• Brewer’s Tools
• Calligrapher’s Tools
• Carpenter’s Tools
• Cartographer’s Tools
• Cobbler’s Tools
• Cook’s Utensils
• Glassblower’s Tools
• Jeweler’s Tools
• Leatherworker’s Tools
• Mason’s Tool
• Navigator’s Tools
• Painter’s Tools
• Potter’s Tools
• Smith’s Tools
• Tinker’s Tools
• Weaver’s Tools
• Woodcarver’s Tools
• Vehicles
• Land
• Water
• Gaming Set
• Playing Card Set
• Dice Set
• Dragonchess
• Three-Dragon Ante

Premium Proficiencies

• Alchemist’s Supplies
• Disguise Kit
• Forgery Kit
• Herbalism Kit
• Poisoner’s Kit
• Thieves' Tools
• Vehicles
  • Air

Proficiency Ticket Pricing

Standard Proficiency

• 75 gp for a standard proficiency
• + 1 submission worth (base gp for your level + 15) gp

Premium Proficiency

• 150 gp for a premium proficiency
• + 2 submissions worth (base gp for your level + 15) gp

Proficiency Ticket Rules & Guidance

Restrictions

The accompanying submission must relate to the proficiency being learned! For example; if your character is learning proficiency with Thieves' Tools, then it would not be acceptable to submit art of that character frolicking through a field of flowers, unless they happened to be picking a lock at the same time.

Thieves' Cant and Druidic are class-locked languages. They can't be learned with a proficiency ticket.

This ticket cannot be used to learn weapon, armor, or skill proficiencies. These must be gained through feats or class features.

Only proficiency can be learned per ticket. For example, you cannot buy an "Artisan's Tools" ticket and learn 17 tools for 75 gp. You have to choose ONE artisan's tool, ONE type of vehicle, ONE instrument, etc.

A maximum of 2 premium proficiency tickets can be used on a single character. There is no limit on the number of standard proficiency tickets that can be used on a single character.

Proficiencies learned through tickets cannot be unlearned with a Refocus, That Didn't Happen, or Reclass. In other words, once these proficiencies are learned, they stay with a character forever.

Guidance

A submission (art, lit, or RP) is required to make the purchase transaction for a proficiency ticket. The value of the submission must be [base for your level + 15] gp or greater. For example, if you are a level 4 character, your base gp for submitting content is 30 GP. The minimum value of your proficiency submission is 30 + 15 = 45 GP. You may NOT also submit works used to gain a proficiency for gold. Your reward for that submission is gaining the proficiency.

An RP submission may be used to fill the requirement for a proficiency ticket. However, the RP value must meet the submission value threshold for the character using it. For example, Steve and Jeff have an RP with their level 4 characters. When the RP is completed, Steve’s earnings would be 25 gp and Jeff’s earnings would be 69 gp. Steve cannot use that RP as his proficiency learning submission because he did not earn the threshold amount (30 + 15 = 45 GP).

Include the links to the proficiency learning submission as part of the purchase transaction in the #shop channel.

Once you have made the shop transaction, you can add the new proficiency to your dicecloud. Create a new feature card on the “Features” Tab of your dicecloud called “Learned Proficiencies” to track proficiencies gained with proficiency tickets. Tracking your proficiency sources helps the mod team in a big way and avoids confusion during dicecloud reviews.