It doesn't stop you from taking it for a Lore you already know but does it refund you 1 skill trained if you do so? Based on the new wording.
It doesn't stop you from taking it for a Lore you already know but does it refund you 1 skill trained if you do so?
I think that might be a general rule at this point, but I'd probably rule you can only apply the training to a lore.
I don't know what the new, remastered text for Additional Lore is, but if it maintains the same "You become trained..." language, then it cannot apply to a Lore you already know as you are already trained and cannot become trained again.
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The Skill section on p225 of the Player Core says
A character gains training in certain skills at 1st level: typically two from their background, a small number of predetermined skills from their class, and several skills of your choice granted by their class. This training increases your proficiency ranks for those skills to trained instead of untrained and lets you use more of the skills’ actions. Sometimes you might become trained in the same skill from multiple sources, such as if your background granted training in Survival and you took the ranger class, which also grants training in Survival. Each time after the first that you’d become trained in a given skill, you instead allocate the trained proficiency to any other skill of your choice—though if the skill is a Lore skill, the new skill must also be a Lore skill.
The Additional Lore feat says:
Your knowledge has expanded to encompass a new field. Choose a Lore skill subcategory. You become trained in it. At 3rd, 7th, and 15th levels, you gain an additional skill increase you can apply only to the chosen Lore subcategory.
Special You can select this feat more than once. Each time you must select a new subcategory of Lore and you gain the additional skill increases to that subcategory for the listed levels.
This is from the Skill page, not the character creation section, so I am not sure that I would limit the bolded part to character creation, though that is the immediate context. I could argue it either way.
If you think the bolded part is generally applicable then you should be able to take Additional Lore in your background Lore skill, and train a different Lore skill. If you don't, then you wouldn't.
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At worst, you would have to take Additional Lore at 1st level. Since the order of adding things to your character is flexible, you could apply Additional Lore first before your background and have your background be the one that is training a different lore skill.
But personally I feel that this wording is intended to apply at any point that you would become trained in a skill that you are already trained in. It prevents having to write that ability into every last archetype dedication and other such things.
I just find it interesting they changed one line by removing one word.
Original
Your knowledge has expanded to encompass a new field. Choose an additional Lore skill subcategory. You become trained in it. At 3rd, 7th, and 15th levels, you gain an additional skill increase you can apply only to the chosen Lore subcategory.
Remastered
Your knowledge has expanded to encompass a new field. Choose a Lore skill subcategory. You become trained in it. At 3rd, 7th, and 15th levels, you gain an additional skill increase you can apply only to the chosen Lore subcategory.
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Punctuation saves lives.
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One thing that is interesting is that for all of the Level 1 Ancestry Feats that give Lore skills for your Ancestry (ie Dwarf Lore, Elf Lore, etc) the verbage is now that they give the Additional Lore feat with the specified Lore. Which means those are all now auto-scaling.
Which is really cool.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!