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When combining the skills from both classes in the event of duplicate skills do you: throw out the duplicate or (as in the case of a duplicate from ancestry, background, class in general rules) replace the skill with another skill?
Example: druid and ranger both get nature as trained
If you toss the extra that would give the character 7+Int total skills, whereas if you switch it they would have 8+Int skills.
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Sometimes you might gain training in a specific skill from multiple sources, such as if your background granted training in Crafting and you took the alchemist class, which also grants training in Crafting. Each time after the first that you would gain the trained proficiency rank in a given skill, you instead allocate the trained proficiency to any other skill of your choice.
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Choose and implement your character’s ancestry and background as normal. Then, when you get to the step of choosing a class, select two classes and add everything from each class except Hit Points and starting skills
EDIT: HERE is the entire section for context.
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I have read through that and wouldn't be asking these questions, if it answered my questions. It does not. The write-up in the GMG is horrible. These two questions are not answered or conflict with general rules in the core book:
My initial question about the skills isn't answered because it doesn't reference what happens when duplicate skills are present. Normally as addressed in the core book duplicate skills are replaced, but several times when mentioning other conflicts in the dual-class write up it says to drop the duplicate. Does that apply to skills or do skills follow the core book?
Also it doesn't mention anywhere in the write-up about Key Abilities. This needs to be addressed because if it doesn't become a choose one option and you apply both in some cases you may get double ability bonuses from classes chosen.
I agree that they are not sufficiently covered, but my impression of the intention, based on page 193 is that when both classes get the exact same benefit, you do not double it.
Key Ability boosts at character creation are suspiciously missing from both the list of things you do apply twice and the things you don't. I'm not convinced that you get 2 boosts for any combination. That seems even more absurdly unbalanced than the variant already is.
chArActer AdvAncement
A dual-class character gains the class feats and class features for both classes at each level as they advance, with the exception of ability boosts, general feats, skill feats, and skill increases—the character gets each of these benefits only once per level, since both classes would provide the same benefit. (A dual-class rogue/ranger still gets the extra skill feat and skill increase at levels where the other class doesn’t provide them.)If a character gains the same proficiency rank in a statistic more than once, they still use only the highest rank. In the example above, when the cleric gets Alertness at 5th level, they wouldn’t change their Perception rank, since it was already expert due to the ranger’s initial proficiencies.
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... it's an alternate rules system. Just do what works best for your table. If in doubt, default to the more conservative reading (drop duplicates).
I agree with GMoA. This is an alternate rule that will likely receive no official support going forward. I am ok with a Fighter/Wizard getting a boost to Int and Str as the max for each is still only 18, but the Sorcerer/Bard should not be able to double up on Cha. BUT as a GM I would allow the Cleric/Druid to have an extra +2 to put in any stat as long as the max is no more than 18.
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From my read through I would say drop duplicate (mandatory) skills from the classes. As far as I can see you get both attribute bonuses at first lvl but since the Basic rule book says you can only increase an attribute once per step then you cannot increase the same attribute with the two class core stats. That said there are many classes that allow a choice so just take 2 different attributes. If you decide to dual with two classes that have the same attribute like Cleric/Druid then you loose out....but honestly the dbled spell slots and metric ton of other abilities kinda makes up for it.