Role-playing Games Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for gamemasters and players of tabletop, paper-and-pencil role-playing games. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
In D&D 4th edition, the PC of
I checked the core rules, but could not find anything, (although I did not read everything) and I looked up answers on this forum and found an answer related to D&D 5th edition.
How do overlapping trained skills work for the D&D 4th edition?
The general rule is that you can't benefit from a skill training twice:
You can’t gain training in a skill more than once.
(PHB, Skill Training)
A race normally gives you a +2 skill bonus, not a skill training. Racial skill bonus does stack with the class skill training. PHB explicitly says this in the "Skill Check Bonuses" block:
Your base skill check bonus for a skill includes the following:
- A +5 bonus if you’re trained in the skill
In addition, some or all of the following factors might apply to your base skill check bonus:
- Racial or feat bonuses
Therefore, +5 from the Stealth training plus +2 from the Stealth racial bonus give a total of +7.
However, the Shade race gives both Stealth training and Stealth +2 bonus. Since trained skills do not stack, a Shade Rogue still has the same +7 bonus.
