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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3190956" data-attributes="member: 1465">Well there is even a more basic question: why paying someone to teach you when you can learn exactly the same things by yourself?This is normally NOT the case in real life, where a teacher DOES allow for much faster improvement to nearly everyone. But in D&D, it's you don't learn any class features by attending a school or training. You can imagine that going on in the background, but if you don't gain Xp in the meantime, you're not gaining Wizard levels. And if you do gain those Xp, you don't need to explain how that translates into new spells.For example, has the player itself ever needed a school to get to his current Wiz level?To answer your question: maybe the school grants something extra than the standard class abilities. As an example, see the Arcane Order in Tome & Blood, where members pay a fee but have access to a prestige class and specifically the Spellpool. Or maybe there is a more generic benefit, such as making useful CONTACTS with other wizards, gathering information and stray knowledge (that doesn't translates into bonuses, just plain knowledge of things), etc.</blockquote>