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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8129400" data-attributes="member: 7025508">First of I'm not convinced that even with private tutoring you could teach everyone to be a capable medical doctor and I am absolutely certain that you couldn't teach everyone to be a neurosurgeon or a quantum physicist. For example high level math and certain types of abstract thinking simply are things that not everyone is capable of learning. People have different strengths, weaknesses and aptitudes and those affect what things they can learn in a reasonable timeframe. Sure. I'd assume that the nobles would seek to control the magical education. They would control the funding for magical academies and set laws regarding spellcasting. They might require certified wizards to commit providing certain services in exchange for paying the education and providing material components and research facilities for them. And sure, they could get that education for those in their family who are gifted on that area, but such individuals would still be rare. (Or not, if you want, but in most settings wizards are relatively rare.)You need that decade of education. And the components.Because they were gifted on that area, you were not and instead you spent your time learning politics, finance and courtly etiquette. You paid the education for one nerd who now is your court wizard.Yeah, I think the customs and laws regarding magic are an interesting area and one which is often overlooked.This doesn't make any sense to me. There are a shitton of elf subraces, much more than any other race has. Does this mean that the elves are the most common race in D&D settings? That something exists as a character creation option has nothing to do with its prominence in the setting, beyond it existing on some level. You can have a setting where half of the population are wizards or you can have a setting where the PC wizard is literally the only wizard in the entire setting and the rules remain exactly the same.</blockquote>

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