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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8783465" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Are we still going on about our personal interpretations of how long it takes to become a wizard?  One of my earlier posts showed canonical evidence that characters can become spellcasters at young ages in previous editions (one from a Spelljammer supplement being all of nine years old!), and 5e has no rules for starting ages (indeed, it has no rules for aging effects at all, as several wild magic sorcerers have found out).  Come on, people, there's examples of young spellcasters all over the place in fiction (and I'm not talking about Harry Potter!)- how long it takes to become a member of any character class varies from person to person.  The old man with a long beard is a stereotype- notice how, even in D&D art, male spellcasters are pictured this way often, but female spellcasters are not.It doesn't help that sometimes D&D books contradict themselves on this matter, showing that individual writers have their own opinions- 2e's Complete Wizard's Handbook says that apprentices younger than 20 are unusual, but then TSR 9549 College of Wizardry states:[ATTACH=full]262560[/ATTACH]Bottom line, everyone is entitled to their own opinion on this subject, but you're not going to find a hard rule that says "you must be this tall to ride this ride" with regards to arcane magic use.  And if we're just arguing that one person's opinion is somehow more or less valid than another's, this conversation will never go anywhere of substance.</blockquote>

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