Re: Re: Literacy in the West?

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:40:58 +1300


At 01:11 PM 3/3/2005 -0800, you wrote:

>Peter, the section on adepts mentions other options as well.

As I previously said:

         As matters stand, the rules cover wizards and are largely
         silent on the matter of non-wizard adepts.

>There's another option, however - it could be that learning a Grimoire
>entails limited reading ability.

Except that even the clergymen learns read language, not read scripture, as I have previously
pointed out.

>The other option is simply to say that the school that your character
>learned from taught reading
>unlike the others listed (an odd academy perhaps).

The argument isn't about keywords, but the notion that only wizards can read in Malkioni
society.

--Peter Metcalfe

>Or take it as one of your ten abilities, explaining that the character
>learned to read while at the academy taking extra courses (which the
>others were taking to become Wizards). That is, if you feel that they have
>to be able to read, then require that the character get reading from
>somewhere. Doesn't have to be a keyword.

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