Arcane Schools

[LostSoul]

Even so, it just seems unrealistic that they'd not last. I mean, military schools/fighters guilds/etc would gather the same amount of threat and danger, since all things are equal.

Well, I imagine new military schools would have trouble lasting long, for the same reason.

Wizards also have access to rituals and that can upset the status quo the way a new mercenary army won't.

 

[Herobizkit]

By the way...did any one else think that the art for the article page looked suspiciously like two Jedi?

I did, and was about to post a comment about it.

To follow up on the above poster's comments, military schools take the guns away from the cadets at some point. Wizards are always "locked and loaded".

I've run a campaign that was entirely school-centric, and with the right players, it can be all sorts of fun. It is more enriching if you veer away from the violence and focus on inter-party relationships (ie with other people, not necessarily romantic) and PC-NPC relations.

 

[Scribble]

So I finally read the article... Hrmm I'm torn.

Crunch is crunch, so cool.

I like the concept, and the idea- but the writing just "bugged" me. It felt very ummm staccato? Like some of the sentences just should have been combined into a single sentence, instead of 3 seperate sentances, and sometimes the thoughts didn't seem to "flow" properly into the next one.