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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7895346" data-attributes="member: 6683613">That's just fine, then, as my D&D setting is set in the 2553rd Year of the Bregatian Pantheon, and for over three centuries the Sisters Scholastic have been spreading literacy even to the far-flung rural communities as a byproduct of their search for children with wildborn sorcery talent, pursuant to the dictum of the Three-Eyed King that all mages' true names be taken from them and sealed in the Emerald Archive (and of course a true name can only be written autographically).Actually, none of that's true, I just made that up. My campaign does happen to be set in a place rather like early medieval ("Dark Age") Europe, and literacy does happen to be low. But even so, PCs are exceptional individuals and thus are considered literate unless specified otherwise -- even the half-orc ex-slave learned to read in some handwaved downtime. Because in my experience, having to remember to censor my descriptions and handouts of all written content for an illiterate PC is just a pain in the butt.Either way, I trust you take my point.</blockquote>