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<blockquote data-quote="Morgenstern" data-source="post: 914062" data-attributes="member: 5485">Actually, I think it's&nbsp; very good comparison. Adventurer (the people we're discussing) are almost universally literate. Further, they seem like they talk to one another during their down time, or trainig, or any other off camera, not out killing things time they get. Further, this isn't a pop-cultural literacy issue - its your career, and if such information is availible in any form, you can bet you're gonna try and lay your hands on it. Actually, it's nice to be able to say that some of those evenings around the campfire are actually spent productively with a little chit-chat with your party bard or wizard. As if your' character did more with his spare time than brush it under the rug until initive gets rolled.And there are going to be times when th information ISN'T availible. If I'm running a campaign in which there has been no attacks by demons in the last 500 years, and no one wrote much down from last time, and a player, having read the monster manual, starts buyng the right ammo, I'm going to ask &quot;Why&quot;, and if he can't give me a good reason, I'm going to say &quot;No&quot;. Or if I'm feelling particularly vindictive, that he's abusing knowledge he can't have, I'll let him blow the money, and then change the monster...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morgenstern, post: 914062, member: 5485"] Actually, I think it's very good comparison. Adventurer (the people we're discussing) are almost universally literate. Further, they seem like they talk to one another during their down time, or trainig, or any other off camera, not out killing things time they get. Further, this isn't a pop-cultural literacy issue - its your career, and if such information is availible in any form, you can bet you're gonna try and lay your hands on it. Actually, it's nice to be able to say that some of those evenings around the campfire are actually spent productively with a little chit-chat with your party bard or wizard. As if your' character did more with his spare time than brush it under the rug until initive gets rolled. And there are going to be times when th information ISN'T availible. If I'm running a campaign in which there has been no attacks by demons in the last 500 years, and no one wrote much down from last time, and a player, having read the monster manual, starts buyng the right ammo, I'm going to ask "Why", and if he can't give me a good reason, I'm going to say "No". Or if I'm feelling particularly vindictive, that he's abusing knowledge he can't have, I'll let him blow the money, and then change the monster... [/QUOTE]

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