The Rogue's expertise feature doesn't limit the chosen skills to those on the Rogue list. Background or racial skills are applicable candidates for expertise.
I just tested with a character that had Arcana proficiency from background, and Arcana showed up in the Rogue level 1 Expertise dropdown.
Maybe check whether you already have Expertise in non-Rogue skills from another source - like a feat, or Bard multiclass, or possibly even from an earlier Rogue Expertise selection (if you're trying to select at Rogue level 6)?
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Oh yeah, if you have the same character open in multiple browser tabs that can cause issues, best to avoid that (or make sure to reload the page before changing things.)
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What seems to cause this issue is if you set your skills for your background, and then change your background, the character sheet doesn't seem to update with it. So you do not get proficiency in your background skills, and therefore cannot get expertise in those skills.
What seems to cause this issue is if you set your skills for your background, and then change your background, the character sheet doesn't seem to update with it. So you do not get proficiency in your background skills, and therefore cannot get expertise in those skills.
Is this a custom background?
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Just tried that, doesn't seem to do it either. Hopefully the mods are able to figure out what is causing the issue. It seems like it's the only thing that takes an extended period of time to update (if at all), with the exception being updating homebrew stuff (Which feels more understandable)
The Rogue's expertise feature doesn't limit the chosen skills to those on the Rogue list. Background or racial skills are applicable candidates for expertise.
However, the dropdown lists Rogue skills only.
Please post the URL to your character sheet so someone can look into it for you.
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I just tested with a character that had Arcana proficiency from background, and Arcana showed up in the Rogue level 1 Expertise dropdown.
Maybe check whether you already have Expertise in non-Rogue skills from another source - like a feat, or Bard multiclass, or possibly even from an earlier Rogue Expertise selection (if you're trying to select at Rogue level 6)?
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Actually I just reopened it and it's showing the arcana skill now. Odd. Maybe I added the arcana skill in a different tab and hadn't refreshed?
Anyway, I'm glad it's working. Is there a way to close this thread or mark it resolved?
Oh yeah, if you have the same character open in multiple browser tabs that can cause issues, best to avoid that (or make sure to reload the page before changing things.)
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What seems to cause this issue is if you set your skills for your background, and then change your background, the character sheet doesn't seem to update with it. So you do not get proficiency in your background skills, and therefore cannot get expertise in those skills.
Is this a custom background?
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Correct. I've tried to change the background to a premade one and that doesn't seem to make a difference, though.
I know changing to a custom background often takes up to 20 minutes for the character sheet to get the changes.
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Looks like it hasn't updated yet.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/78811369
The character should be proficient in Nature and Medicine, as well as Cook's Utensils and Poisoner's Kit, all from their background.
But this is not reflecting on the character sheet and thus not available for expertise.
Might take a little longer but just bringing it up for investigation, as this has come up more than once for me and seems to be easy to reproduce.
I can see that those proficiencies aren't present on the character sheet, but a mod or someone would need to look at the background.
Maybe try bumping the character up a level and then back down (or rather down & back up since level 20), see if that makes the proficiencies show up.
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Just tried that, doesn't seem to do it either. Hopefully the mods are able to figure out what is causing the issue. It seems like it's the only thing that takes an extended period of time to update (if at all), with the exception being updating homebrew stuff (Which feels more understandable)
It's updated now. The custom background update delay is for the same reason as homebrew changes update delay, so it'd be similar.
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Oh trippy. Thanks so much for the follow up!