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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6624308" data-attributes="member: 20323">[MENTION=6683099]dd.stevenson[/MENTION]If you think about it, all of the mages in the books and the games are rather high level characters. There are no 1st level wizards in the story of the Witcher. Characters like Triss and Yennefer are, in D&amp;D terms, easily 9th level characters and probably higher.At the same time, look at the arc of Triss in Witcher 2 and 3. She is taken captive by soldiers in Witcher 2 and compressed via magic into a little statue. Later she is leading a desperate escape for mages being pursued by witch hunters in Witcher 3. That paints the image of a world where even a group of mighty mages have reason to fear the powers that be.I think the key thing to remember is that if you were starting a group of players off at 1st level, for example, the mages would be freshly graduated from Aretuza or Ban Ard. They would not be prominent members in the Circle of Mages or Lodge of Sorceresses, at least not yet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 6624308, member: 20323"] [MENTION=6683099]dd.stevenson[/MENTION] If you think about it, all of the mages in the books and the games are rather high level characters. There are no 1st level wizards in the story of the Witcher. Characters like Triss and Yennefer are, in D&D terms, easily 9th level characters and probably higher. At the same time, look at the arc of Triss in Witcher 2 and 3. She is taken captive by soldiers in Witcher 2 and compressed via magic into a little statue. Later she is leading a desperate escape for mages being pursued by witch hunters in Witcher 3. That paints the image of a world where even a group of mighty mages have reason to fear the powers that be. I think the key thing to remember is that if you were starting a group of players off at 1st level, for example, the mages would be freshly graduated from Aretuza or Ban Ard. They would not be prominent members in the Circle of Mages or Lodge of Sorceresses, at least not yet. [/QUOTE]

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