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Old 03-20-2012, 05:31 AM   #34
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Default Re: Ceremonial Magic used to support an army.

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Originally Posted by ErhnamDJ View Post
What I find curious is the idea that there will be some lack of wizards. How much training did an English archer receive? What does a wizard look like who has received the same amount of training? How long does it take to get someone proficient in one spell?
It is a question of setting...in Normal Mana you need to have Magery.

How many people have Magery 0 (5 pt) Advantage? Similar to the number of people with Flexibility/Ambidexterous/Charisma/Eidetic 1?? More? Less??

Magery 1 (15 pts) Perfect Balance? Luck?

and of those people with inborn talent...how many are found and trained??

After all mebbe I could be the shortstop for the Boston Red Sox...but no one found me in Little League and gave me the intenste training needed so...

Some settings everyone can work a little magic (High Mana)...but IME in a lot of settings Mages are fairly rare.

FREX..in The Lord of the Rings...1200 ish pages...IIRC Gandalf cast a Light spell in Moria...that was it...and he only met ONE other wizard...Saurman.

YMMV...
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