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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheLoneRanger1979" data-source="post: 6751820" data-attributes="member: 6804148">I'm not one of those that would restrict MC (or any kind of "creative" rule interpretation for that matter), but strictly on the subject how to explain leveling...... here are my 5 cents.....well, maybe more then 5....Most editions (4E being the exception) seam to presume that lvl1 (the starting entry in adventuring) is not really heroic and the character would at best be considered novice at the given profession/class. I.E. a fighter could be a member of local village militia, possibly a squire and only rarely a true veteran of a military campaign. Do note that some backgrounds in 5E don't match with this, but then again i would never build a lvl 1 character with them to begin with. In my eyes novice doesn't mean without skills or training though. It just means without experience. So the potential is there, but is yet to be unlocked. As the character gains experience they begin to find new uses for their base training and skills and find new ways to creatively act outside the box. It is this outside the box thinking that i interpret as new features. Sometimes though a character if given enough time and opportunity can be exposed to new ideas and modes of operation. These would be considered MC opportunities. And finally, again if given enough time a person could effectively learn new skills or languages, or find a way how to exploit latent abilities. This is of course only my way of looking at things, and yes, it doesn't work very well for mages in 5E. In 2E and 3E IIRC, when you leveled a mage the casting slot would be there, but the spell wouldn't. You still had to find a scroll or have someone teach it to you. You can alternatively hand wave this by assuming the wizard knew all the spells in advance (he/she had enough time to learn them during all the years at the university), but as the character levels up he/she is now capable of actually utilizing them <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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