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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackinthegreen" data-source="post: 6106347" data-attributes="member: 6678119">Celebrim, I'm very sure your campaign style isn't average or typical of most D&D campaigns.  Most DMs would probably say that getting a bunch of 1st level warriors for hire is fairly easy so long as the community is large enough.  While they might not favor spears or other long weapons, they're still proficient and could be handed them and work unless they really had oddball feats, but that would be obvious upon making sure they're competent at wielding a polearm. Likewise, getting a wand of <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/mount.htm" target="_blank">Mount</a> is typically about as simple as getting any other 1st level spell via a wand.  Some couriers might even favor the wands for their work, so a city or even town might very well have someone who can do that.  And the players tend to expect that really since it's certainly not an exotic spell.  So yes, players tend to expect the wand can be found at the local Wand-Mart.And a caster capable of making a Summon Monster 4 scroll in a small city (5,001 to 12,000 people according to the 3.5 DMG page 137) can be fairly decent if one is using the rules/guidelines from page 139.  A small city has a +6 modifier, so you're always going to have at least a 7th level something.  The wizard you can almost guarantee has Scribe Scroll, although a cleric or sorcerer having it is iffy and the sorc would need to be level 8 to cast the spell in the first place.  In a metropolis of 25,000+ the DMG pretty much says there will be at least 4 or 5 characters of 12th or higher level and many more of lower levels.  It's guidelines of course, but it might offer a glimpse into how the designers envisioned the typical campaign world.</blockquote>

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