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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LokiDR" data-source="post: 1051875" data-attributes="member: 6239">Real life levels are measured in skill and accomplishment.  In many cases, those accomplishments come in the form of completed education, but as the mutiple examples of states not requiring law degrees for lawers, this isn't always the case.The analagy stands on a central point of "people in highly technical fields don't specialize and cross fields".  No lawer surgens.but all surgeons are doctors.So, a surgeon is a doctor who chooses to continue his training?  A person who goes beyond the basics of practicing medicine to perform "high level" medicine.  Sounds like a high level caster.  By 20th level, you are looking at a person who has 7th spells of one type and 9th level of the other.  That would be a like being a partner at a firm and a practicing surgeon.  Hmm, it looks like it is a weak choice so not many people choose it.  Sounds like multiclassing.That is an awfully big leap in logic.  Do you know how many different treatments are developed each year?  How many law journals are there?  A few court decisions and a whole defense might be invalid.  Does the doctor have the time/resources/inclination to keep up on all of those?  With enough effort, anything is possible, but that impliese a higher level.Ya, it sounds like you have spend all your time working on each separately.  Just like multiclassing.</blockquote>