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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6280769" data-attributes="member: 8461">Using just the Core classses and NPC classes in 3.5, I would think of it like so:Sorcerers came first. Like some monsters, there were simply people who had mutations that allowed them to use magic.Adepts would have followed very closely, as people evolved enough to begin recognizing and worshipping powerful entities.Druids followed, reflecting the belief in a pantheistic system of spirits that was ultimately rudimentary nature worship.Rangers came in turn, as people slowly adopted these pantheistic beliefs among early societies, allowing them use some minor spellcasting without the high degree of devotion required of druids.Bards discovered spellcasting almost on accident, as they traveled from one settlement to another, picking up a little bit of everything as they did so, and managed to emulate powers of spellcasters that they met.Clerics arrived when true deities finally arrived (or, alternately, were recognized as such), ushering formalized, ritual worship of specific divine entities with control over specific areas of the world.Paladins followed shortly thereafter, as crusaders for the goodly gods.Wizards were the most recent spellcasting class. Having studied the powers of sorcerers (and bards in turn), they've not only noticed that those are fundamentally different than the spellcasting of other (divine) classes, they've made a further breakthrough by figuring out how to access arcane spellcasting artificially via rigorous testing and research. Being able to teach this great power to any smart enough to understand the arcane principles, and with no divine oversight to restrain them, wizards start to assert themselves as a preeminent power in the campaign world...</blockquote>

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