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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7841926" data-attributes="member: 58172">Levels 1 to 4 are ‘apprentice’ levels.The thing is, not all characters gain access to a formal education system. Especially, in a medieval-esque system.Some characters are ‘self-taught’. They are their own apprentices, sotospeak.Even so, the characters of levels 1 to 4 are still characters who are learning the ‘basics’ of how to fight or how to spellcast.By the way, in a medieval-esque setting, ‘formal education’ includes, a rich parent hiring one or more mentors.Parents often send their teen away to a ‘foster parent’ to learn a useful skill there.Students might get employed as a servant in a ‘guild’ or a ‘workshop’ or a ‘school’, where the ‘master’ is using the students as labor. For example, an artist might have a ‘school’ where numerous students are painting religious icons, and the ‘master’ supervises their artwork to make sure the product is of adequate quality.A shoe-maker might hire people to help make shoes.In a military unit, the ‘master’ = the ‘knight’ who keeps an eye on students who show aptitude for warfare. The knight might even take the budding fighter under ones wing, as a ‘page’ (= apprentice), then a ‘squire’ (= professional).In a feudal political context, the pages and squires are chosen less for their fighting skills and more for their family connections. It is more about who knows who, than who knows what.In medieval or ancient contexts, a formal education that includes reading ancient texts from manuscripts, is normally for wealthy elites only. In this context, D&D wizardry is for those who have the money to afford it. But every now and then, a student ‘gets a scholarship’ sotospeak, because of showing remarkable aptitude. Somehow having gained a modicum of access to real wizardly magical techniques. Even so, this Wizard apprentice continues to serve the master, doing chores and errands, and so on, while learning something useful every now and then.Despite the norm. There are individuals who somehow manage to teach themselves with little or no formal training.At level 5. They are professionals.</blockquote>

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