LOST TRAILS OOC

[Wolfglide of the Fraternity]

I may have to pay him another visit when I gain the time.

[ewancummins]

Gov roll

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[ewancummins]

Gov roll

235184:0

Poor roll for her, potentially good for the party.

We'll see...

[alhoon]

Raen calls the governor "your honor" because he doesn't know her honorific. Perhaps "your Ladyship" would be fine, but he doesn't know how high she is and whether there are many Ladies. So... he went with what he considers best.

[ewancummins]

LISTEN

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[Wolfglide of the Fraternity]

Does Alwina know how to ride a horse, or will she need some sort of assistance?

[ewancummins]

Does Alwina know how to ride a horse, or will she need some sort of assistance?

She's not very good.

It seems she only knows of riding from pictures in old books.

[Wolfglide of the Fraternity]

Klokulf only has a +1 in Ride from Dexterity, so he is probably embarrassing compared to most Vaasi horsemen. Someone else may have to give Alwina pointers.

[kintire]

She's not very good.

It seems she only knows of riding from pictures in old books.

That's about where Kat is too.

[ewancummins]

LOL, 3E restricts Ride as a class skill.

In 2E, it's a General group proficiency.


TANGENT:

Am I the only one who finds it a bit odd that 3E assumes universal literacy (at least for PCs)?

I like the way that's handled in 2E, as a NWP.

I also like the B/X/classic rule in which literacy is a function of INT.

[kintire]

I'm not sure it does...

3E doesn't really mention literacy much. That said, most PCs are highly trained professionals who would probably have been able to read in a medieval world, although not necessarily write.

[ewancummins]

I'm not sure it does...

3E doesn't really mention literacy much. That said, most PCs are highly trained professionals who would probably have been able to read in a medieval world, although not necessarily write.

It's buried in Speak Language, in the SRD.

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/speakLanguage.htm


And, again, in the barbarian class material:
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/classes/barbarian.htm

[ewancummins]

A good way to simulate literacy being rare is to rule that the commoner and warrior NPC classes share the barbarian's literary feature.

Players seldom , if ever, take NPC class levels for their PCs, so this won't gimp any PC choices/options/builds.

But it will mean that most NPCs can't read.

[Wolfglide of the Fraternity]

It would not be too far to make some player classes illiterate as well. Bards, clerics, druids, monks, paladins, and wizards definitely would know how to read, but all of the other classes could get by without it in most circumstances. A rogue that is a forger would undoubtedly be literate, but a cat burglar can break in and steal things without needing literacy.

It also depends upon the setting. Backwoods places will have lower literacy than more advanced civilizations that promote education. The literacy rule should probably be more nuanced than it is.

[ewancummins]

Indeed.

3E as written seems to imply a text-rich environment. Printing presses with moveable type might have been in use for centuries in the hazily defined default setting/3E-hawk.

Or not.

As one likes.