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phiwum · 03-21-2022, 02:55 PM

Henry, perhaps not every campaign is structured so the high IQ and fragile wizards are the only valuable characters while the remaining population serve as cannon fodder. Perhaps some campaigns include characters, including wizards, with middling IQs and average ST.

If you want a campaign where the only way to become a wizard is to go through a guild-accredited apprenticeship, then it would make sense to require Literacy and Aid for every wizard. It turns out that others don't want that sort of campaign, where the mightiest and most fearsome folks of all are those who tend a wicked fast transportation system (and who benefit from abnormally high approval ratings from the hoi polloi). But no problem. Room for everyone, after all.

03-21-2022, 02:55 PM	#10
phiwum Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Boston area	Re: The reverse of a mundane background advantage Henry, perhaps not every campaign is structured so the high IQ and fragile wizards are the only valuable characters while the remaining population serve as cannon fodder. Perhaps some campaigns include characters, including wizards, with middling IQs and average ST. If you want a campaign where the only way to become a wizard is to go through a guild-accredited apprenticeship, then it would make sense to require Literacy and Aid for every wizard. It turns out that others don't want that sort of campaign, where the mightiest and most fearsome folks of all are those who tend a wicked fast transportation system (and who benefit from abnormally high approval ratings from the hoi polloi). But no problem. Room for everyone, after all.