Can you attend multiple magic schools?


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Could you attend a Monastery, a guild and a arcane school at the same time? I didn't see anywhere that stated you could or could not.


You dont need to attend schools to learn magic so this is really a flavor question unless you have more informatoin on exactly what is going on.


I was talking about the schools presented in Inner Sea Magic.


ok. I dont have that book, but I know what you are talking about. I will just sit back and wait for someone with the book to answer it.


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I also lack the book, but my GM has it.

I would say 'no chance' because you gain certain perks and bonuses from schools, guilds, etc and it would be a major balance problem if you got the lot.

However, for flavour, background, etc reasons I'd allow a character to join several without gaining any more than one set of bonuses, either from one school or spread across all of them.

Sczarni

Are they all in the same town. And can you put in 8 hours at each? Because that is what is generally expected (at the bare minimum). So... sleep 8, 8 at 2 schools. Leaves no time to do anything else. And conflicts with schools might pit yourself against yourself or the target of every member of one or the other schools.

I also know the Academae in Korvosa requires a 10 year commitment. So, no, you can't go somewhere else while going there. I expect major academies to be like minded (they would probably turn you into a bird at Korvosa if you pointed out someone from another institution said you should do it xyz way... )


I wouldn't say you could at the same time, but one after another...


maouse wrote:


I also know the Academae in Korvosa requires a 10 year commitment. So, no, you can't go somewhere else while going there. I expect major academies to be like minded (they would probably turn you into a bird at Korvosa if you pointed out someone from another institution said you should do it xyz way... )

Pfff. My elven mage starts at a hundred and fifty years old. A ten year commitment is nothing.


MagusJanus wrote:
I wouldn't say you could at the same time, but one after another...

I planned to one after another.

Sczarni

Orfamay Quest wrote:
maouse wrote:


I also know the Academae in Korvosa requires a 10 year commitment. So, no, you can't go somewhere else while going there. I expect major academies to be like minded (they would probably turn you into a bird at Korvosa if you pointed out someone from another institution said you should do it xyz way... )
Pfff. My elven mage starts at a hundred and fifty years old. A ten year commitment is nothing.

Unless you have to role play every day...


I find that going to "schools" in Pathfinder would be no different than going to College in the modern era. Here's the problems you can expect to face in Pathfinder that also 'plague' the real world:

You think a school is going to take you because they can? It's going to take a lot of persuasion to make them even consider it, and what could be a more powerful (and non-lethal) motivator than money? Magic isn't cheap, and they sure as hell aren't going to bother with beggars, no matter how smart they may actually become.

You going to a school with your 20 Intelligence? Might be an A student, but guess what, there are other 20 Intelligence students at that same school, and they don't just let any 20 Intelligence schmuck who walks in the door be a practitioner of the most powerful resource in the world. That's like giving any "average joe" police officer the right to use nuclear warheads.

The teachers at so-and-so school are going to be at near the top of their fields (30 Intelligence minimum), and while there may be some promising pupils, even those who appear to be the most successful turn out to be bad apples. That's why they have to weed them out from the rest, so they can be further refined into truly magnificent skilled apprentices.

TL DR? It's expensive, it's time-consuming, and it will generally be so difficult that you can only handle the one University; doing any more than one will result in you failing both, as you cannot maintain both cirriculums.

As an aside, while I directed these arguments toward Arcane Spellcasters, these exact arguments also apply to Fighter Colleges, Monk Monasteries, Paladin/Cleric Cathedrals, etc.


Darksol the Painbringer wrote:

I find that going to "schools" in Pathfinder would be no different than going to College in the modern era. Here's the problems you can expect to face in Pathfinder that also 'plague' the real world:

You think a school is going to take you because they can? [...]

Apparently schools are much more selective in Golarion than in the real world. Every year, US News and World Report surveys about 2000 colleges for its annual report (including acceptance rates). The 100th most selective school in 2012 accepted about a third of its applicants.

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TL DR? It's expensive, it's time-consuming, and it will generally be so difficult that you can only handle the one University; doing any more than one will result in you failing both, as you cannot maintain both cirriculums.

Of course, going to two or more universities in succession, as the OP indicated he had in mind, is relatively simple. I suspect that at least 10% of the readership of this forum has done so. Expensive and time consuming, yes. But for a scion of a noble elven house, neither of those are significant barriers.

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