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Retraining takes all your attention for 8 hours per day for a number of days based on what you’re retraining. You can’t perform any other strenuous activities while retraining, such as marching, adventuring, or crafting magic items. You can retrain only one thing at a time; you must complete or abandon a particular training goal before starting another one. Abandoning unfinished training means you lose all progress toward that training’s goal and all costs associated with that training.
There is some discrepancy in how the time spent retraining a feature can and cannot be arranged. In the opening rules, it states that 'Abandoning unfinished training means you lose all progress toward that training’s goal and all costs', however it's not clear what qualifies as 'abandoning'.
Clearly starting a new retraining project while a prior one is unfinished causes the prior project to be lost. Several options say 'It takes 5 days to retrain one class feature' or the like. However, retraining a language states 'It takes 20 days of training to gain a bonus language, and these days need not be consecutive.' This seems to imply that unless otherwise noted, training days must be consecutive or progress is lost. If you have a five day project and cannot train on day four due to monster attacks or whatnot, then all progress (and cost) is lost and it's back to day one. Is this correct?
Lastly, the edge case - Racial trait retraining. This one says 'This takes 20 nonconsecutive days and requires a trainer with the racial trait you want.' Is that meant to be read as 'This takes 20 days, which need not be consecutive', or is it saying that the training CAN'T take place on consecutive days? That would mean training would require a minimum of 39 days, only actually training every other day.
It appears that only Language and Racial Trait have text that specifies non-consecutive training schedules - it'd be nice if there was a clarification in the beginning that just said 'All days spent retraining a feature must be consecutive or progress is lost, unless otherwise noted.'
My understanding would be:
- I agree that Rules as Interpreted is consecutive unless stated otherwise.
- Ignore monsters, focus on training (unless Paladin) :P
- I believe RAI would be 20 days that do not need to be consecutive.