That gives you access way more spells to transcribe, as well as giving access to bulk magical materials. The best way for a young Wizard to learn is to find a mentor, either at an official college, or just as an apprenticeship. The second issue is that it's far easier for most Wizards to gatekeep their knowledge. So, becoming even the weakest wizard is going to be pretty much inaccessible to any members of the lower classes, unless they can find a super generous sponsor, meaning that the powerful and wealthy get to control exactly who has access to magic. Skilled laborers are a bit better at 2gp per day, but that still requires you to invest a lot of your own money in your business, and you'll lose everything if you decide to stop working for a few years to study magic. That's still not counting the fact that they still have to feed and clothe themselves during those two years, and will need money saved up for when they're dedicating their life to studying, so that's gonna be around five or six years of hard work just to reach level 1. That means that just to get the money to become a wizard, they need to work nonstop for over two years straight. The average peasant laborer makes 2 sp per day. In order to just get to level 1, your average Wizard is gonna have to drop around 150 gp, likely more if they're getting a formal education. Buying a spellbook costs 50 gp, transcribing each spell costs another 50 gp per level (plus the cost of the scroll), and none of that is counting the cost of expensive material components. However, Wizards as a class aren't really that accessible for the common person. Likewise, Wizards are portrayed as the class that's accessible to anyone, so long as they work hard enough and study well. A lot of people trash on sorcerers for taking the easy way out, and just getting their powers through either genetics or sheer luck (despite the fact that Sorcerers still have to train and learn to use their spells).
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