Wizard population dynamics

[hcobb]

Originally Posted by Skarg

That's an interesting house rule, to have becoming a wizard be a 10-year process. I agree that something is missing in the details of the original concept where some people just are a wizard (and so as you point out, can do several things that would seem to want some learning), but if you make it so a 10-year training is needed, it would tend to mean every wizard really needs to be trained by someone (for a decade in this version).

Shaped by a traumatic event in their childhood: Wizard Academy.

Originally Posted by Skarg

So your guild pays its teachers on a per-student basis?

What's wrong with the book-standard of apprenticeship being a trade in-kind between the wizard and the apprentices, with no salary involved?

These aren't qualified to be apprentices yet. Once they are full wizards they zip through a standard apprenticeship in just four years.

The teachers are paid as per their IQ. It just averages out to $25 in total school costs per student per week.

If you barge into a random classroom roll 3d6 for the number of students there.

On a roll of 18 you've hit Introduction to basic magical theory first year.

On a roll of 3 you've reached Advanced Demonology.

Remember that these kids will be able to recognize 171 different spells on sight after this decade of training so they spend less than a month on the vast majority of those.