How do arcane spellcasters organize themselves in your setting? Do they have an independent sovereign entity like ?

How do arcane spellcasters organize themselves in your setting? Do they have an independent sovereign entity like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See ?

Wizards live alone and rarely see each other at all, rarer still organize anything bigger or more lasting than a birthday party. They're far too rare and jealous of their power to form any kind of big guilds or governments or shit like that.

Universities, colleges, schools - largely independent educational establishments sustained through endowments and payments for magical services rendered, as well as alumni (and in some cases staff) donations

either independant people walking the earth looking for new magic and knowledge to pick up. Being priests of a religion involving a powerful magical being, and schools started by kingdoms or noble houses.

That movie was shit, but dalaran was pretty neat.

If your setting has enough magic users to form organizations, it's poorly thought out and illogical. Considering how powerful wizards can become, any more than a few serious spellcasters would dramatically change the world into something unrecognizable.

TL/DR: Shit thread, D&D style wizards ruin everythng.

So you're arbitrarily basing magical poweron D&D because of magic-user numbers in (some) D&D settings?

Shit logic right there, there's nothing to say how powerful or not any given wizard should be

It does get changed up quite a bit.
Espeically when theres magi and the preisthoods who both have access to magic.
You can also make a whole mess of crazy inventions with magic.

I don't think wizards are OP in 5e, with Concentration and all still new to the system tho. And bounded accuracy brings their defensive capabilities to a manageable level. Moreover, if we homerule teleporting to require an endpoint attuned beacon running away becomes harder.

Maybe others can share their PoV's regarding another systems.

In rather cult-like guilds. They probably would now that I'm thinking about it, and it would most likely be very similar in nature.