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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7967917" data-attributes="member: 40176">What are you suggesting, that each and every piece of paper used in 95% of D%D settings is exactly the same size and quality?In most settings, any large bureaucratic organisation will get its paper supplied in bulk from a specific producer, even in medieval times, and each producer in each different region will produce a different type of paper, depending upon their skill, the trees from which their wood pulp was harvested, the chemicals used to bleach it, and what quality of product their client was prepared to pay for.As a result, papers produced in one town will have a particular look and feel to them, that's different from papers produced in another town 50 miles down the road.I didn't mention skills, I was talking about supplies. A forger needs to have a sufficient range of different inks that they can simulate the grade and colour of ink used on a specific document. A calligrapher does not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 7967917, member: 40176"] What are you suggesting, that each and every piece of paper used in 95% of D%D settings is exactly the same size and quality? In most settings, any large bureaucratic organisation will get its paper supplied in bulk from a specific producer, even in medieval times, and each producer in each different region will produce a different type of paper, depending upon their skill, the trees from which their wood pulp was harvested, the chemicals used to bleach it, and what quality of product their client was prepared to pay for. As a result, papers produced in one town will have a particular look and feel to them, that's different from papers produced in another town 50 miles down the road. I didn't mention skills, I was talking about supplies. A forger needs to have a sufficient range of different inks that they can simulate the grade and colour of ink used on a specific document. A calligrapher does not. [/QUOTE]

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