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<blockquote data-quote="ccooke" data-source="post: 7612938" data-attributes="member: 6695890"><p>I have a setting which is something of a reaction to this sort of thing.</p><p>In this setting, the average fully-trained adult is the equivalent of a level 3 character. The players started as recent graduates at level 1.</p><p>Roughly fifth level characters are considered to be particularly skilled - people aspire to casting things like fireball, and there are quite a lot of people able to do it. Things tail off sharply, though, and even legendary heroes fit into the level 9-10 range. Abilities beyond that are not even legendary.</p><p>It's a world where magical education has been taking off for the last 50 years or so. Everyone with a decent level of education can cast at least one cantrip. Everyone can attempt to cast rituals from a prepared text - but the effects of fifth level spells are mythical, and things that can only be done with sixth level spells or higher aren't even contemplated.</p><p></p><p>It's been interesting, especially giving the party pointers on where they might learn more powerful things when they eventually reach higher levels. Having basic adults being 3rd level equivalent is useful. It means my city guards and soldiers tend to be quite hard-hitting, especially since they grouped into sensible numbers (not a "fair" encounter for the players)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ccooke, post: 7612938, member: 6695890"] I have a setting which is something of a reaction to this sort of thing. In this setting, the average fully-trained adult is the equivalent of a level 3 character. The players started as recent graduates at level 1. Roughly fifth level characters are considered to be particularly skilled - people aspire to casting things like fireball, and there are quite a lot of people able to do it. Things tail off sharply, though, and even legendary heroes fit into the level 9-10 range. Abilities beyond that are not even legendary. It's a world where magical education has been taking off for the last 50 years or so. Everyone with a decent level of education can cast at least one cantrip. Everyone can attempt to cast rituals from a prepared text - but the effects of fifth level spells are mythical, and things that can only be done with sixth level spells or higher aren't even contemplated. It's been interesting, especially giving the party pointers on where they might learn more powerful things when they eventually reach higher levels. Having basic adults being 3rd level equivalent is useful. It means my city guards and soldiers tend to be quite hard-hitting, especially since they grouped into sensible numbers (not a "fair" encounter for the players) [/QUOTE]
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