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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7298549" data-attributes="member: 6704184">In my games, the character is already training for the subclass they’re going to pick. Well, usually we just start at 3, these days, but when we have started at 1, that’s how I guessed it in world. Also, I don’t actually imagine a specialized instructor for the Shadow Monk, for instance. I talk to the player and we workshop their backstory, but generally a shadow monk or Eldritch knight or similar has always been training to do that, and it’s part of their normal training. In my worlds, an EK doesn’t go find a wizard to train in wizardry, they’re a warrior training to combine martial arts with arcane arts, and the actual spell casting takes longer to come fully online. They have always been and Eldritch Knight, it’s just that at lvl3 they get their spells, because the game mechanics don’t fit the story well.  But this is also why I don’t like that most classes choose a subclass after lvl1, and we mostly just skip lvls 1-2.</blockquote>