The Pursuit of Knowledge
Academies is the system through which you can further train your character, augmenting their physical and mental capabilities in several ways.
Academies are also referred to as Places of Learning. One can be found in every civilized country except Orde at this time. Each academy will have a limited list of courses that you can sign up for, and you can only attend one academy at a time. Furthermore, some courses have prestige or level requirements for you to attend.
Each course will have a designated tuition fee and difficulty associated with it. The tuition fee is the gold cost you must pay to attend, and the difficulty is the representation of how many crafting days you must spend to complete the course. Fees and difficulty of a course can be reduced based on certain things. The
Faction and Country Affiliation section below outlines a couple of discounts that apply to all courses. As for a course's difficulty, some origins or sub-origins may reduce it.
A player can only sign-up and attend one course at a time.
To sign-up make a post in #academies following this format:
[at]economy[at][yourself]
Sign-up(s) Submitted
Starting Gold: #
Total Fees: #
Leftover Gold: #
Do not remove any gold from your character sheet until this sign-up post has been approved by an Economy DM with a thumbs-up reaction.
When you want to spend crafting days on a course, make a post in #academies following this format:
[at]economy [at][yourself]
Spending # crafting days on [course], to a total of # / #
Economy DMs will approve these posts as well, though there's no need to wait on your part for anything, it's just to keep track of you spending crafting days.
When you've spent the last crafting day needed on a course, then you must wait for approval from an Economy DM to change anything relevant on your character sheet.
You are free to drop from a course at any time, but this will waste all spent crafting days on the course. If you sign up for the course again, you will start from 0. If you possess the Keen Mind or Athlete feats, you can retain progress on certain courses, as shown below:
Keen Mind
All languages
Any feat retraining that would award you with an intelligence, wisdom, or charisma score bonus
Any intelligence, wisdom, or charisma ability score retraining or score cap training
Any skill retraining that is intelligence, wisdom, or charisma score based
Athlete
All arms and armor training
Any feat retraining that would award you with a strength, dexterity, or constitution score bonus
Any strength, dexterity, or constitution ability score retraining or score cap training
Any skill retraining that is strength, dexterity, or constitution score based
Faction and Country Affiliation
Factions are pivotal in determining academy and course attendance in relation to the country that the academy resides. Thus, which faction you belong to can be beneficial or detrimental to their availability. Straight off, if you belong to a faction that is in a war of annihilation with the Bards College, you cannot attend their academy. This includes factions that are in an alliance war with them. Other factions cannot block anyone from attending academies in their country.
If you are attending the academy that is in the same presiding country as your faction
you ignore the prestige and level requirements for attending courses.
Example: If you are a Steton Strider attending the Steton academy you could use any of the Steton academy courses regardless of your prestige or character level.
If your faction has completed the Improve Political Standing agenda for the same presiding country that you are attending an academy, the tuition fee is reduced by 5% each time, to a maximum discount of 20%.
Note: If you are a member of a secret faction, you ignore the above rules that are dependent on your faction membership, unless the relevant authorities are aware of your membership for whatever reason and are on good terms with you (If the authorities want you killed, they aren’t going to give a discount.).
Courses
Languages
Course Difficulty: 16 days
Course Fee: 600 gp
Requirements: None
Course Directions: Select an available root language you do not already know. When the course is complete, you can read, write, speak, and understand the chosen language.
Notes
You can only learn a number of languages through academies equal to your Intelligence modifier, to a minimum of 1.
If you possess the Courier sub-origin or the Linguist feat, reduce the Course Difficulty by 5 days. Both reductions can stack, to a minimum Difficulty of 6 days.
Skills
Retraining
Course Difficulty: 8 days
Course Fee: 1,000 gp
Requirements: None
Course Directions: Choose one skill proficiency you possess that you did not gain from a impermeant source (Church Boon, Magic item, Eldritch invocation, ect), Racial, or Origin, and then another skill you do not have proficiency with from one of your class skill list. When the course is complete, you lose proficiency from the first and gain proficiency with the second.
Notes
If the skill you would gain is one on your starting class’ skill list, or if you possess the Skilled feat, the Course Difficulty is reduced by 2 days. These do not stack.
Tools
Amateur Training
Course Difficulty: 8 days
Course Fee: 600 gp
Requirements: None
Course Directions: Choose one tool or musical instrument you do not have proficiency with. You cannot choose a class critical tool, such as thieves' tools for rogues unless, you are of that class. When the course is complete, you gain proficiency with the chosen tool.
Notes
You can only gain 2 tool proficiencies and 2 musical instrument proficiencies through academies. However, if you've completed the Expertise Training course, you cannot sign up for Amateur Training a second time.
Expertise Training
Course Difficulty: 20 days
Course Fee: 1,000 gp
Requirements: Prestige 1, or Level 5
Course Directions: Choose one tool or musical instrument you have a permanent proficiency with. You cannot choose a class critical tool, such as thieves' tools for rogues, unless you are of that class. When the course is complete, you gain expertise with the chosen tool.
Notes
You can only gain 1 tool expertise and 1 musical instrument expertise through academies. You cannot take this course for tools if you gained a second tool proficiency through the Amateur Training course, nor for musical instruments respectively.
Arms and Armor
Domestic Training
Course Difficulty: 12 days
Course Fee: 600 gp
Requirements: None
Course Directions: Choose one weapon, armor, or shield that is not exotic, and that you do not have proficiency with. When the course is complete, you gain proficiency with the chosen item.
Notes
If you possess the Legionnaire, Night Guard Aspirant, Soldier in Training, The Path of the Ael, Paladin in Training, or Enforcer sub-origin, the Course Difficulty is reduced by 4 days.
Exotic Training
Course Difficulty: 20 days
Course Fee: 1,500 gp
Requirements: Prestige 1, or Level 5
Course Directions: Choose one exotic weapon, armor, or shield that you do not have proficiency with. When the course is complete, you gain proficiency with the chosen item. See the Improved Armory for more details.
Notes
Certain origins and sub-origins can reduce the course difficulty by 4 days, determined by the item. See the Improved Armory for more details.
Being priorly proficient in all non-exotic light armor, medium armor, heavy armor, shields, or all martial weapons, can reduce the course difficulty by 2 days for the relevant item. This only applies if you are proficient with all in the respective category, such as having proficiency with only one martial weapon does not count for the course difficulty reduction. See the Improved Armory for more details.
Both of the above reductions can stack, to a minimum course difficulty of 14 days.
Members of the Steel Saints faction can choose Anointed Gear weapons with this course, but only from the Daborak academy. Doing so allows you to retain proficiency of the weapon even if you leave the faction.
Fighting Styles - WIP
Course Difficulty: tbd
Course Fee: tbd
Prestige Requirement: tbd
Course Directions: tbd
Feats
Retraining
Course Difficulty: 10 days
Course Fee: 1,500 gp
Requirements: Prestige 1, or Level 5
Course Directions: Choose one feat you possess from a class feature, and then choose a second feat available to you that you do not already possess and meet all prerequisites for. When the course is complete, you lose the first feat and gain the second.
Notes
If you are retraining out of a prestige class, the cost and difficulty are increased per ASI you have gained towards the prestige class.
Ability Scores
Retraining
Course Difficulty: 9 days
Course Fee: 1,200 gp
Requirements: Prestige 1, or Level 5
Course Directions: Choose an ASI you’ve gained from a class feature that has not been retrained by this course before, and that is not a feat. If the ASI bonus is split between multiple scores, choose one of them. Then choose a second ability score of the same type, mental or physical. The second score can be affected by the same ASI bonus. When the course is complete, the ASI bonus of the first chosen score changes to the second score.
Notes
You can attend this course once for every ASI class feature you have gained.
Score Cap Training
Course Difficulty: 14 days
Course Fee: 2,000 gp
Requirements: Prestige 1, or Level 5
Course Directions: Choose an ability score that has not been affected by a cap increase already. When the course is complete, the chosen ability score cap increases by 2. This increase is lost if you would gain an ability score cap increase from a faction bonus for the chosen ability score.
Class Levels
Retraining
Course Difficulty: 8 days plus 12 days per chosen level
Course Fee: 1,000 gp per chosen level, multiplied by the character's Tier of play
Requirements: Prestige 2, or Level 9
Course Directions: Choose a number of levels in a class you have the chosen amount of levels in, then choose a second, different class. After completing the first 20 days, your level in the first class is reduced by one and is increased by one in the second class. For each additional 12 days completed, your level in the first class is reduced again by one and is increased again by one in the second class until the course is complete. Recalculate all class features as appropriate, including the loss and gain of ASIs and feats, as well as Hit Dice.
Notes
You do not gain a class' proficiencies gaining a new class in this way, and you must adhere to multiclassing rules to gain a new class.
You do not lose class proficiencies for losing your last level in your starting class, though you do lose proficiencies gained through class features.
You cannot retrain your last level in Sorcerer or Warlock, you must always retain at least 1 level in those classes.
Retraining your last level in Paladin increases the Course Fee to 4,000 gp and the Course Difficulty is increased to 25 days.
If you possess the Dark One or Lineage of the Barrister sub-origins, the Course Difficulty is reduced by 3 days.
Class Features
Cantrip Retraining
Course Difficulty: 10 days
Course Fee: 1,000 gp
Requirements: None
Course Directions: Choose one class cantrip you know, and then choose a second cantrip you do not know from the same class’ spell list. When the course is complete, you lose the first cantrip, which becomes the second.
Notes
If you possess the Arcane Student, Mage Coast, Church Child, In Plain Sight, or Druid in Training sub-origins, the Course Difficulty is reduced by 3 days.
Spells Known Retraining
Course Difficulty: 15 days
Course Fee: 2,000 gp
Requirements: Prestige 1, or Level 5
Course Directions: If you possess the Spells Known class feature, choose one spell known you know, and then choose a second spell known you do not know from the same class’ spell list, and that is of the same spell level or lower than the first. When the course is complete, you lose the first spell known, and gain the second.
Notes
For Eldritch Knight and Arcane Trickster, you must adhere to the respective school limitations when they would apply; Abjuration and Evocation for Eldritch Knight; Enchantment and Illusion for Arcane Trickster.
If you possess the Banshee Born, Portal Born, or Ward of Witchtown sub-origins, the Course Difficulty is reduced by 3 days.
Option Retraining
Course Difficulty: 20 days
Course Fee: 3,000 gp
Requirements: Prestige 1, or Level 5
Course Directions: Choose one of your class features that offers you a choice, such as the Hunter's Prey class feature, and that is not the Spellcasting or Pact Magic class features, does not give you a subclass, nor the Ability Score Improvement class feature. From the chosen class feature, choose one of its options that is available to you and that is not the option you already possess. When the course is complete, you lose your original choice for the chosen class feature and gain the second chosen option.
Notes
You can attend this course twice, and one additional time for every 5 character levels.
You cannot retrain the Dragon Ancestor or the Linnorm Lord class features.
Subclass Retraining
Course Difficulty: 5 days per level of the respective class
Course Fee: 600 gp per level of the respective class
Requirements: None
Course Directions: Choose one subclass you possess, then choose a second subclass from the same class. When the course is complete, you lose access to the first subclass, and gain access to the second chosen subclass, losing and gaining subclass features as appropriate for your levels in that class.
Notes
If you level up the class you are retraining through this course while attending it, you do not have to pay the increased fee, but the Course Difficulty, and thus the time it takes to complete, is increased accordingly.
You cannot retrain the Sorcerous Origin or Otherworldly Patron subclass features.
Retraining the Paladin's Oath subclass increases the Course Difficulty to 6 days per level, and the Course Fee to 700 gp per level.
If you have access to Domains, you are still limited to the Domain choices from your deity.
If you possess the Dark One or Lineage of the Barrister sub-origins, the Course Difficulty is reduced by 5 days, to a minimum of 1 day.
Pets and Animal Companions
Intensive Pet Training
Course Difficulty: 3 days
Course Fee: 1,500 gp
Requirements: None
Course Directions: Choose one pet or mount you own. When the course is complete, your pet can understand commands of 1 tier higher than their current intelligence tier. This benefit does not increase your pet’s Intelligence score and caps out at tier 5. This course can be repeated and has no effect on Ranger Companions or creatures with 5 or more intelligence.
Beast Conclave Ranger Retraining - Companion ASI
Course Difficulty: 20 days
Course Fee: 1,500 gp
Requirements: Prestige 1, or Level 5
Course Directions: Choose any ASIs your companion has gained through Ranger levels and select a different ability increase for each of them. When the course is complete these ASIs change from their first chosen scores to your second chosen scores.
Beast Conclave Ranger Retraining - Group/Path
Course Difficulty: 30 days
Course Fee: 1,500 gp
Requirements: Prestige 2, or Level 9
Course Directions: Choose one Beast Conclave group and/or path you have access to. When the course is complete, you lose access to your previous group and/or path of companions and switch to your chosen group and/or path. When switching, you reassign all your Companion’s ASIs if there are any leftover from the switch, and you readjust your companion’s hit dice to the correct group progression amount.
Course Availability
For Class Levels and Class Features courses, only the classes noted can be chosen for the purposes of
gaining the respective class level or class features.
Spellcasters: They use spell slots
Martial: They don't use spell slots
Arcane Trickster and Eldritch Knight subclasses obviously use spell slots, and would thus be counted as spellcasters. Classes that gain limited abilities to cast spells do not count for spellcasting, such as the Shadow Monk.
Example: If you’re attending Majital’s academy and are going to retrain a subclass, you can retrain into Arcane Trickster, but you would not be able to retrain out because none of the other rogue subclasses are spellcasters.
Example 2: You cannot retrain sorcerer spells known at Khao.
Krazax - Bards College
Factions: Bard's College, Linnorm Lords, Shackled Legion (Guards)
All courses are available
Majital
Factions: Mage's Guild, Forked Tongue
Languages
Skills
Arms and Armor
Fighting Styles
Feats
Ability Scores - Mental Scores
Class Levels - Spellcasters
Class Features - Spellcasters
Pets and Animals - Intensive Pet Training
Pets and Animals - Beast Conclave Ranger Retraining
Steton
Factions: Steton Striders, Last Grove
Tools
Arms and Armor
Fighting Styles
Feats
Ability Scores - Physical Scores
Class Levels - Martial, Rangers
Class Features - Martial, Rangers
Pets and Animals - Intensive Pet Training
Pets and Animals - Beast Conclave Ranger Retraining
Dolten
Factions: Great Coven, Night Guard, World Wanderers
Languages
Skills
Arms and Armor
Fighting Styles
Ability Scores - All
Class Levels - All
Class Features - All
Pets and Animals - Intensive Pet Training
Pets and Animals - Beast Conclave Ranger Retraining
Daborak
Factions: Crowsworn, Hkari, Steel Saints
Languages
Skills
Tools
Arms and Armor
Fighting Styles
Feats
Ability Scores - Physical Scores
Class Levels - Martial, Paladins
Class Features - Martial, Paladins
Pets and Animals - Intensive Pet Training
Khao
Factions: Grasping Hand, Great Bazaar
Languages
Skills
Tools
Arms and Armor
Fighting Styles
Ability Scores - All
Class Levels - Not Monk, Sorcerer, Wizard
Class Features - Not Monk, Sorcerer, Wizard
Pets and Animals - Intensive Pet Training
Pets and Animals - Beast Conclave Ranger Retraining
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