In the Battle Wizard career sheet you may read

" Special: (…). A character may only enter this career after he has completed the Wizard career."

Similarly, in the Master Wizard career sheet you may read

" Special: (…). A character may only enter this career after he has completed the Wizard career."

What does this "after" mean? Immediately after? or does it just mean that you have to have completed the Wizard career, period.

In other words, can a player for example go from Wizard to Master Wizard, and then to Battle Wizard (or the other way round, from Wizard to Battle Wizard, and then to Master Wizard)?

i think it means that all that is rquired is the wizard to be complete, how you switch between those 2 is your choice i think

so if you are still alive after the battle wizard…take the other one! but only IF you are still alive hehe

Its a quasi reference to the abstraction that career switching has "rules" but it also has "story progression". So the words after means that once you completed the career at some point "after" (when appropriate) you may switch to that career. The idea being that technically you can do it, but its presumed that career switching like a lot of things in WFRPG are story dependent. There is a lot of that in the book, people accustomed to reading RPG books in which they get "instructions" on how to play the game often get confused by the many story conditional wording that is infused in the game, in particular in the players handbook.

Thanks for the answer.

My concern here was that if "after" meant "immediately after", that implies a human wizard can follow 5 careers. That is 50 career advances plus up to 50 non-career advances. On the other hand, if "after" meant "at any time point after" it implies that a human wizard can follow up to 6 careers. That is up to 60 career advances and up to 60 non-career advances.

It is a very "mechanical concept" concern…as always in my case. Do not miss understand me though, I (nearly) always encourage /force players to roleplay and integrate career trainsitions in the story.

Yepesnopes said:

I think if as a player you can complete 2 careers in this game that's quite an achievement. With all the rules in place, between diseases, corruption, insanity and the various types of injuries its hard to imagine how anyone manages it.

BigKahuna said:

Spoilers! the hidden truth of the GM revealed, but don't tell my players though!

Some have plans for their characters up to rank 5 or 6….Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream