Original Curriculum
(The following is an assortment of excerpts from Bigby's original prep school curriculum, 5th edition. This is the first version of the prep school's student package to be bound in book form. Previous student packets were distributed in a boxed set)
...Cleric program allows youthful acolytes to serve usefully as the fifth wheel in any adventuring party. You learn an assortment of functional spells, mostly used to heal your comrades while they actually do things. You really, get to shine, however, when undead appear, assuming you can make them run away. If they don't, well, back to healing...
...nothing like the feel of a sword in your hand and armor on your back. After enrolling in our Fighter program, you will learn to use your weapon, and then not much else. Five years of weapons labs, kids. There's some alternate programs that let you become a paladin, knight, or avenger, but these classes are outsourced, so you have to travel to them...
....vast cosmic power. Later. Senior year maybe. The Magic-User program starts out easy. You adventure a while with one magic missile, then, after a few lessons, you get two! Sign up for WIZ 123 ("Basic Hiding Behind the Fighter") early; it fills up fast...
...Thief students must take Open Locks 101, Find Traps 122, Remove Traps 110, Climb Walls 116, Move Silently 100, Hide in Shadows 120, Pick Pockets 150, and Remedial Hear Noise. Seriously, if you need to take a class to hear noise...
...Proud to be accepting Dwarf students. Dwarves are lucky to have their own classroom building, with their own classes, where they learn to use an axe and see in the dark. Dwarf students who try to enroll in human classes will be summarily expelled. You know you're only good at swinging axes and seeing in the dark...
...special program just for the Elf student. You get to fight like a fighting man, but we also teach you spells! How is that racist? Tell me. You can fight and you can use spells! Up to 5th level spells, at that! Why, that's almost as good as a regular wizard...
...main thing about the program we've worked out for Halflings is the ability to resist breath weapons. You enroll in this program around junior year, after three years of basic short sword training and pipeweed smoking...
...Select students may be allowed to attend the Druid program. You must show an unwillingness to touch "dead" things that were never alive. For instance, you can't open the door with the metal doorknob, so if you manage to get into the enrollment office, you've overcome the first challenge...
...Imagine if you will, learning the monkly skills of the monastic monks of the Eastern realms. Where you learn monkly combat, monkly insight into yourself and your soul, the monk-like agility that makes the monks of the East so famous. And what else could we call this program, but the Mystic...