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<blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1705275" data-attributes="member: 3146">Someone else mentioned that there is a big difference between where you live and where you travel to. That has an impact on this contention as well:Half the world does not have access to 2nd level spells in the town where they live. However, half the world does. And since it is not at all uncommon for villages to be a half-day's travel apart, you will probably find that most of the world knows where one might find 2nd level spells--maybe even 3rd level spells. So, I would expect that your average aristocrat (who represents what in this case? Obviously not landed nobility if there's a significant number in every village; perhaps the &quot;aristocrats&quot; are the wealthy farm-owners who have slaves or peasants toiling in their fields) may, at times when someone in his family is sick, make a pilgrimage to a nearby town where there is a priest or adept who can cast Remove Disease. Similarly, in the town unfortunate enough not to have a proper cleric, odds are good that there is one who lives in the next village over and who may ride through town once a week on Godsday to teach the tenets of St. Cuthbert and cure the local militia. And when a militia member is wounded in the middle of the night in a skirmish with the goblin raiders, they stabilize him, pack him on a wagon and dispatch the wagon with guards to the neighboring village as soon as possible lest he die before the priest comes to town. (That would actually provide a good adventure hook for 1st level characters as long as there were no clerics in the party).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elder-Basilisk, post: 1705275, member: 3146"] Someone else mentioned that there is a big difference between where you live and where you travel to. That has an impact on this contention as well: Half the world does not have access to 2nd level spells [i]in the town where they live[/i]. However, half the world does. And since it is not at all uncommon for villages to be a half-day's travel apart, you will probably find that most of the world knows where one might find 2nd level spells--maybe even 3rd level spells. So, I would expect that your average aristocrat (who represents what in this case? Obviously not landed nobility if there's a significant number in every village; perhaps the "aristocrats" are the wealthy farm-owners who have slaves or peasants toiling in their fields) may, at times when someone in his family is sick, make a pilgrimage to a nearby town where there is a priest or adept who can cast Remove Disease. Similarly, in the town unfortunate enough not to have a proper cleric, odds are good that there [i]is[/i] one who lives in the next village over and who may ride through town once a week on Godsday to teach the tenets of St. Cuthbert and cure the local militia. And when a militia member is wounded in the middle of the night in a skirmish with the goblin raiders, they stabilize him, pack him on a wagon and dispatch the wagon with guards to the neighboring village as soon as possible lest he die before the priest comes to town. (That would actually provide a good adventure hook for 1st level characters as long as there were no clerics in the party). [/QUOTE]

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