This is why a cost benefit analysis is necessary before entering continuing education. if you can’t figure out how to do a cost benefit analysis, then you have already answered the question about whether you should go or not.
Yeah well, hindsight is 20/20, and most people who did a degree in the last 10 years had parents who came out of University and *did* get a good job out of it, and who didn’t realize that the current state of affairs means that anyone who goes into study now is going to get buried in a mountain of debt.
And to be fair, what sane person would think it was possible to go from a world where a summer job could pay for the next year’s tuition, to a world where you can work 60 hours a week at minimum wage and still be below the poverty line?
Back in earlier editions of D&D, I remember doing the “math nerd” thing and figured out that a mage’s beginner spellbook was worth at least 5,000 gp (and that was just the book, with no spells). Mages were also known for being pitifully weak at low levels, and then becoming practically demigods at high levels.
It’s pretty easy to make it a campaign element that the party wizard owes his master over 5,000 gp for his beginner spellbook! And if you’re really mean, the master charges interest…
Tryin’ to pay off those magic school loans on a cop’s salary. Especially when you take an unplanned vacation to a circus and end up with a whole bunch of Officer Involved Spellcasting on your sheet. I get the feeling that Presti’s due a visit from IAD (Internal Arcanists Division).
One learns little from victory, but much from defeat? …but I agree, impostor is more likely. My vote is for mirror-universe doppelganger, given the holey state of reality at present.
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So that’s why all the low level wizards are adventurers…
This is why a cost benefit analysis is necessary before entering continuing education. if you can’t figure out how to do a cost benefit analysis, then you have already answered the question about whether you should go or not.
Yeah well, hindsight is 20/20, and most people who did a degree in the last 10 years had parents who came out of University and *did* get a good job out of it, and who didn’t realize that the current state of affairs means that anyone who goes into study now is going to get buried in a mountain of debt.
And to be fair, what sane person would think it was possible to go from a world where a summer job could pay for the next year’s tuition, to a world where you can work 60 hours a week at minimum wage and still be below the poverty line?
so…. if you can’t do a cost/benifit analysis then you should go into further education so you can know how to do one?
*note sarcasm I just couldn’t resist*
Back in earlier editions of D&D, I remember doing the “math nerd” thing and figured out that a mage’s beginner spellbook was worth at least 5,000 gp (and that was just the book, with no spells). Mages were also known for being pitifully weak at low levels, and then becoming practically demigods at high levels.
It’s pretty easy to make it a campaign element that the party wizard owes his master over 5,000 gp for his beginner spellbook! And if you’re really mean, the master charges interest…
That sounds to me like an incentive to get XP fast, rise in levels quickly, and “forgive” your own debt. With violence.
Also, I’d call BS on a GM who tried to charge a player loans for their class’s starting equipment.
you obviously never had a sadistic DM….. oh how fun it was to be evil
If they can think up a better backstory that justifies their having access to that kind of equipment, good for them.
Hahaha, my brothers question goes unanswered still
I know, right? It makes it so much funnier actually knowing Pegtor. 😛
Tryin’ to pay off those magic school loans on a cop’s salary. Especially when you take an unplanned vacation to a circus and end up with a whole bunch of Officer Involved Spellcasting on your sheet. I get the feeling that Presti’s due a visit from IAD (Internal Arcanists Division).
What happened to the old Calamitus? This one’s *dangerously* clever…. clearly some kind of impostor…
One learns little from victory, but much from defeat? …but I agree, impostor is more likely. My vote is for mirror-universe doppelganger, given the holey state of reality at present.
He got the Rule of Funny on his side
I think that’s his cousin. Doppelgangers, mimics, and shoggoths all budded from the same flying spaghetti monster. 🙂
‘I attempt sense running joke’
(roll) 3
‘Nope, no running joke here at all’. 🙂
Wait, if she could pay for that freaking rhino bazooka, why didn’t she put that toward her debt