Regalia Charisma Skill Buffs


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Got a question about one of the adept benefits of regalia, particularly the following part:

"The circumstance bonus you gain to Deception, Diplomacy, and Intimidation increases to +2, as long as you have master proficiency in each skill."

I'm pretty sure RAW that means each of those skills need to be at master to get the +2 bonus in any capacity, but not sure if that's RAI. Seems very restricting to require that much skill investment to gain what is a somewhat core feature of the class. Wondering what others think. (?)

Update: Thought about it, and considering you get adept benefits at level 7, which is also the earliest you can start getting any skill to master, I'm strongly feeling like you just need a single one of those skills to be at master to get the +2 to that particular skill. Otherwise, by default, you're waiting until 13th level to get this particular benefit.


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I noticed the strange wording too. Surely it's meant that your master skills get the +2 and the expert and below skills remain with the +1


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John R. wrote:
Update: Thought about it, and considering you get adept benefits at level 7, which is also the earliest you can start getting any skill to master, I'm strongly feeling like you just need a single one of those skills to be at master to get the +2 to that particular skill. Otherwise, by default, you're waiting until 13th level to get this particular benefit.

Yup. And that is only if you spend all of your skill boosts on those three skills.

Sounds like a place to invoke the Ambiguous Rules rule and run it the way that makes sense.


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John R. wrote:
"The circumstance bonus you gain to Deception, Diplomacy, and Intimidation increases to +2, as long as you have master proficiency in each skill."

Natural language. I can read this as "For each skill with master proficiency your bonus for this skill is +2" even now. But yes, the wording is ambiguous. An unambiguous restricting wording would be "master proficiences in all these skills".

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