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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 816635" data-attributes="member: 3051">It's a silly rule, but as written, they get Literacy as soon as they multiclass to anything else.***HOUSE RULE ALERT***Literacy is a cultural thing, not a class-related thing.  I mean, why is it that every warrior who uses a chaotic, brute-force fighting style is assumed to be an ignorant savage?  The Barbarian class has some very appealing features even to the cultured city-dwellers, after all, so it's not really fair to assume everyone who started as that class doesn't know how to read.So, what we did IMC was make Literacy into a racial/cultural thing.  The PHB races all start literate unless they come from a primitive society (in which case the DM will usually give them something else to compensate, anyway, like 2 ranks of Wilderness Lore).  Monster races are usually assumed to be illiterate unless specified otherwise.</blockquote>