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<blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 761533" data-attributes="member: 1264">lalato: one or two 9th level wizards aren't going to level a city of this size! Check out my post earlier in this thread about the distribution of levels for the various classes. Here's the relevant ones again:Sorceror, Wizard:1x9th level, 1x8, 2x5, 2x4, 8x2, 16x1Expert:1x15, 1x12, 2x8, 2x6, 4x4, 4x3, 16x2, 32x1We definitely don't have enough mages for a separate mage school, but they I think they will tend to band together into a guild to protect their common interests, and they could form part of university.Let's say about 2/3 of the Wizards are involved in the University. That's about 20. Or about 10 if you assume the Wiz1's are (grad?) students. A faculty of 10 is plenty for a small department (actually, that would probably make a large department in a medieval university). I figure the Sorcerors aren't the studious kind, so they wouldn't be part of any university (but might belong to the Guild). Then there's also a bunch of Adepts, but I think those would be considered second-rate by the Wizards...There's about twice as many Experts as Wizards, but I gues a smaller fraction of them would be involved in the university (probably too busy with their own enterprise). Let's say another 10 Experts on the faculty.That makes about 20 faculty in total, 50-50 Wizards and Experts, with perhaps the odd Sorceror (combat magic?), Adept, Bard (history?), or Druid (ecology?). Sounds like a university to me. Nothing of the size of modern universities, but it's probably about right for a small, second-rate university in a small city. Call it a school if you like the sound of that better...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Conaill, post: 761533, member: 1264"] lalato: one or two 9th level wizards aren't going to level a city of this size! Check out my post earlier in this thread about the distribution of levels for the various classes. Here's the relevant ones again: Sorceror, Wizard: 1x9th level, 1x8, 2x5, 2x4, 8x2, 16x1 Expert: 1x15, 1x12, 2x8, 2x6, 4x4, 4x3, 16x2, 32x1 We definitely don't have enough mages for a separate mage school, but they I think they [i]will[/i] tend to band together into a guild to protect their common interests, and they could form [i]part[/i] of university. Let's say about 2/3 of the Wizards are involved in the University. That's about 20. Or about 10 if you assume the Wiz1's are (grad?) students. A faculty of 10 is plenty for a small department (actually, that would probably make a [i]large[/i] department in a medieval university). I figure the Sorcerors aren't the studious kind, so they wouldn't be part of any university (but might belong to the Guild). Then there's also a bunch of Adepts, but I think those would be considered second-rate by the Wizards... There's about twice as many Experts as Wizards, but I gues a smaller fraction of them would be involved in the university (probably too busy with their own enterprise). Let's say another 10 Experts on the faculty. That makes about 20 faculty in total, 50-50 Wizards and Experts, with perhaps the odd Sorceror (combat magic?), Adept, Bard (history?), or Druid (ecology?). Sounds like a university to me. Nothing of the size of modern universities, but it's probably about right for a small, second-rate university in a small city. Call it a school if you like the sound of that better... [/QUOTE]

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