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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 9560463" data-attributes="member: 3649">The 'everyone can go to wizard school' idea is a bit silly;' it's like saying everyone can just be a successful CEO or get an PhD in Aerospace Engineering. 'Going to wizard school' should be like pursuing a degree in high-level theoretical physics - a vanishing small percentage of the population are capable of handling it even if they want to do so. This is one reason I liked and still use the old rule of 'you can learn spells up to the limit of your INT'; most people would have a 10 or 11 INT and thus no matter how much they studied, they'd never be able to comprehend more than cantrips or first level spells. Almost no-one would ever be able to master 9th level spells, ever. A handful of people in the world, perhaps, and they're still bound by how many times you can do that per day. Things like Cure Wounds and Create Food and Water are not learned - they are granted by gods to their favored servants. You can study all you want and you'll never cure a single hit point. So the supply of medical magic is likely very, very limited and sometimes simply doesn't work at all if the god doesn't want it to work.</blockquote>