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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8783316" data-attributes="member: 53980">By medical doctor, I mean an MD. A fully trained medical doctor.What you're describing sounds closer to a trained EMT. Which, sure, I believe you can volunteer at a first aid squad at 18. But it's a far cry from being a fully trained MD.I would say that in game terms of becoming a wizard, this level of training would be more along the lines of having some proficiency in the Arcana skill.If you believe that magic is something that anyone can do after a few weeks of intensive training, rather than something a talented individual requires years to learn, it kind of makes sense that you believe that a magocracy would be inevitable. Everyone would be a magic user and therefore the leader would also by definition be a MU. Although at that point it's less a magical system of government and simply more of a fully magical society.If that's the kind of setting that you want to world build, go for it. It's not the type of setting I'm interested in, so I start from different principles in shaping my world (namely, that for most people magic is difficult or even impossible to learn).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 8783316, member: 53980"] By medical doctor, I mean an MD. A fully trained medical doctor. What you're describing sounds closer to a trained EMT. Which, sure, I believe you can volunteer at a first aid squad at 18. But it's a far cry from being a fully trained MD. I would say that in game terms of becoming a wizard, this level of training would be more along the lines of having some proficiency in the Arcana skill. If you believe that magic is something that anyone can do after a few weeks of intensive training, rather than something a talented individual requires years to learn, it kind of makes sense that you believe that a magocracy would be inevitable. Everyone would be a magic user and therefore the leader would also by definition be a MU. Although at that point it's less a magical system of government and simply more of a fully magical society. If that's the kind of setting that you want to world build, go for it. It's not the type of setting I'm interested in, so I start from different principles in shaping my world (namely, that for most people magic is difficult or even impossible to learn). [/QUOTE]

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