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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7839603" data-attributes="member: 4937">I know you are probably being humorous, but I would imagine that any wizard that wanted to train young wizards would invent various missile and ray spells that are harmless or nearly so and have the students practice with these harmless examples long before they learned magic missile. There may well be a whole variety of such spells which, having been invented over the course of the last 20 centuries for this purpose, are well known in the academic community and well known to loremasters which never show up in Player's Handbooks because adventuring PC's have no need of them. Aside from avoiding mishaps with students, there is a very practical matter that young people tend to have very bad judgment and short tempers, so if you make a 12 or 13 year old go around with the magical equivalent of a switchblade or a pocket/purse gun all the time, there is a very high chance they'll end up using it on a peer, a bully, or you. If your apprentice is getting tormented as a nerd by a group of village toughs, you have a problem. But if your apprentice responds to this by firing off a magic missile, then you have a torches and pitchforks sort of problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7839603, member: 4937"] I know you are probably being humorous, but I would imagine that any wizard that wanted to train young wizards would invent various missile and ray spells that are harmless or nearly so and have the students practice with these harmless examples long before they learned magic missile. There may well be a whole variety of such spells which, having been invented over the course of the last 20 centuries for this purpose, are well known in the academic community and well known to loremasters which never show up in Player's Handbooks because adventuring PC's have no need of them. Aside from avoiding mishaps with students, there is a very practical matter that young people tend to have very bad judgment and short tempers, so if you make a 12 or 13 year old go around with the magical equivalent of a switchblade or a pocket/purse gun all the time, there is a very high chance they'll end up using it on a peer, a bully, or you. If your apprentice is getting tormented as a nerd by a group of village toughs, you have a problem. But if your apprentice responds to this by firing off a magic missile, then you have a torches and pitchforks sort of problem. [/QUOTE]

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