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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lurker37" data-source="post: 4009843" data-attributes="member: 9522">Quick answer? "As benefits the plot."But for the defaults I work with:Literacy roughly depends on Wealth level, and size of settlement. Poorer families are unlikely to have spared the time and money for their children to learn literacy and numeracy, whereas any family of merchants or noblemen is likely to have made such education a priority. Of course, the available supply of education is just as important. A   large town is far more likely to have teachers than an isolated village of a dozen huts. Those too poor or too isolated to gain access to education will be generally be illiterate. Having said that, there can always be exceptions - the poor, isolated family who educated a single son by sending him to the nearest village for a year (he was delivered with one annual crop and picked up after delivering the next year's), or the rich family who didn't bother educate the youngest child.But above all, it goes by plot. If the plot requires a note, letter, bill of sale or whatever, then the NPC's involved will have the required level of literacy to have produced it (And may in fact become indignant if any PC expresses surprise). By the same token, if an NPC needs to not be able to read a letter, then either their education was overlooked or else their eyesight is failing.And, of course, the PCs have all had specialised training - that includes literacy. (Even fighters need to study their Agrippa, so that Capa Ferro will not be canceled out by Thibault when trying to penetrate Bonetti's Defense in rocky terrain... )</blockquote>

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