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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5547375" data-attributes="member: 14159">Then again, in the real world somebody with an 11 INT could go and get a mediocre University education, but college education wasn't common until the last few decades despite being around for around 1000 years, and even then it's not available to everyone for economic and social reasons.  I'd imagine magical education is much the same way or worse: there is a gulf of difference between what is theoretically possible and what is economically and socially practical.As for CHA 11 casters, as sorcery talent is inborn the DM could just say that the vast majority of people just plain don't have it, it's not just having 11 CHA and arbitrarily deciding to become a spellcaster.  It's totally arbitrary by genetics.11 WIS comes with being a cleric, and whatever rules and strictures that come with the faith.  All of these come with the idea that you'll never be able to cast above 1st level spells.  Will a Wizard's college really waste valuable class space on somebody who will never improve?  Will a clerical order take a novice that isn't wise enough to see the deeper mysteries?  Eberron isn't as much the "1920's redone with magic-as-technology" as I thought, but I still think people who assume that because the rules say something is possible that it is mandatory.</blockquote>