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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DogBackward" data-source="post: 3440544" data-attributes="member: 50642">Except that young folks play DnD, too. And a 16-20 year old kid playing a 35+ year old wizard... well, it's jsut not a good idea. For one, somone that young can't reallistically play the wisdom and experience of age as well. And it also makes it hard for the player to connect with the character. A lot of younger players I know imagine themselves as their characters, which is hard to do if your character is an old fogy.Besides, the young, upstart apprentice wizard is just as common a fantasy archetype as the musty old geezer.Also, to those who seem to think their players need to train... what do you think they're doing for the eight hours they're not walking to the dungeon each day? It does not take four hours to set up/tear down a camp. Your fighter is standing off to one side, swinging his sword around. The cleric is deep in meditations, contacting his divine inspiration. The wizard is poring through his spellbooks, making connections and gettin gideas for new ways to cast spells.Not to mention... constantly fighting off tons of bad-guys makes for some pretty damn intense training, y'think? You don't need to spend a week sparring in town if you just spent a week doing the real thing in a dungeon.And yes, I've let my characters level in mid-battle before, after they killed a particularly XP heavy creature, in the middle of the be-all, end-all fight they were losing horribly. The cleric was infused with divine power, as his deity stepped in to lend a hand, while the wizard, after a failed spell, gained sudden insight into the workings of his magic. Under the pressure, something just "clicked", and he blasted another minion to the depths of hell.I'll say it again: stop obsessing over minor details. Make your game fun, exciting and full of action and adventure, and your players will thank you from the bottom of their dice bag. DnD is not about who can train the longest, it's about a disparate band of adventurers coming together to fight evil, and having fun. If you have to worry about finding a place to train, and finding someone to teach you... that's not all that fun, now is it?</blockquote>

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