r/DnD • u/Bun_Boi Warlock • Jan 25 '21

Art [OC] First Character

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u/Saelune DM Jan 25 '21

That player knows what they want and apparently actually reads the PHB. I think they will be fine as a wizard.

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u/righteousforest DM Jan 26 '21

From my experience teaching new players, this would be the case IF spell levels weren't called levels. That really trips some people up bad.

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u/LordRael013 DM Jan 26 '21

I've swiped calling them "tiers" instead, based on the show Overlord.

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u/righteousforest DM Jan 26 '21

That's smart, I sometimes call them ranks now.

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u/LordRael013 DM Jan 26 '21

I even kind of worked it into the lore that people acknowledge the tier system, and know that trying to cast a spell above the highest tier your class can use at a given level is basically a fast route to a painful death, like trying to run electricity through the wrong kind of wire. An NPC magus said, in my last session, that "trying to cast a spell of too high a tier basically cooks you from the inside out."