Just a question I had looking at some feats. So, the rule when you get trained proficiency at the same skill from multiple sources, perhaps as both from your class and background, you are then supposed to apply the trained proficiency to another untrained skill of your choice instead. Furthermore, if said trained skill was a lore skill, the trained proficiency must go to a new lore skill and not any normal skill. What I'm wondering is, if you get trained in a regular skill from two sources, can you then apply the trained proficiency to a lore skill? Or can you only get new Lore skills from skill increases and Additional Lore (or possibly some other source I'm forgetting right now)? Thoughts?
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Lore features many subcategories. You might have Military Lore, Sailing Lore, Vampire Lore, or any similar subcategory of the skill. Each subcategory counts as its own skill, so applying a skill increase to Planar Lore wouldn't increase your proficiency with Sailing Lore, for example.
Each Lore category is a standard skill. You can spend standard skill increases on them if you want.
You can't spend a Lore skill increase on a different skill though.
So it behaves similarly to how Skill Feats are a subtype of General Feat. You can spend a General Feat choice on a Skill Feat if you want. But if given a Skill Feat choice, you can't pick a General non-Skill feat.
Would you mind citing sources, please? I would very much like to know where that general rule can be found.
Certainly.
Thanks!