@georgetakei Although it's amusing as a joke, it's important to remember that historically such tests were used to prevent Black people from voting - the content of the tests themselves and actual civics knowledge were meaningless; the tests were designed so the person who proctored them could disqualify anyone they pleased, which they used to disqualify anyone they personally felt was the "wrong sort" of people or who might vote the wrong way.

Even if a modern test were automatically graded, it's easy to see how it could be used in a similar manner - states would set their own tests and red states would just require flatly false answers to things they know only their supporters would answer the right way, eg. requiring people to falsely assert that the 2020 election was stolen (or, if they wanted to be more subtle, that there was "reasonable evidence" or something of that nature.)

@geekygirldawn Also that "look at how it's done elsewhere in the codebase" is the most basic way to learn.

(And even flat-out "copy-paste something to use as a template" is often good - there are reasons to be cautious about copy-paste code, ofc, and depending on the required tweaks if you're doing it too much it might be a sign things need refactoring, but it's still an important tool in your toolkit. Asking what the best thing to use as a template for XYZ is also good because codebases are often in different states of disrepair.)

@eniko This is deliberate. 5e progression is divided into tiers of play and 5th level (when wizards and other full casters get level 3 spells, like fireball and flying and hypnotic pattern and such) is the threshold of tier 2. Designing the game around those thresholds was done to let it work with the traditional D&D spell list and associated progression. Everyone is supposed to get a big bump in power at or around levels 5, 11 (wizards get 6th level spells), and 17 (9th level spells.)

Doing this lets players choose what tier they want to play at and makes it easier to scope adventures properly (eg. levels 1-4 are small-scale local stuff; at level 5-11 you move towards being regional heroes; at levels 11-16 you're focused on worldwide threats; and 17-20 is about facing cosmic threats, evil deities, etc.)