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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7967923" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah and you don't see the problem here? They're not going to be consistent. They're not always going to have the exact same kind of paper even inside a specific castle or sherrif's office or whatever. It doesn't come out of a factory, all neat and precise and exactly the same colour every time. There will be kinds of paper that are common in certain, small geographic areas. The sizes, colours and so on will probably vary quite a lot. You seem to get this bit.Problem is, a &quot;forgery kit&quot; cannot possibly deal with that, unless you are literally carrying hundreds of pieces of paper gathered from all over the region or even world (I noted this much earlier in the discussion). There's just too much diversity. Paper and parchment and so on are too varied.But this is all still a red herring - the problem is that the proficiency is with a kit. What is in that kit is actually kind of beside the point, because that proficiency shouldn't exist as a separate thing.Yeah they do. Think about it. Think about what scribes and calligraphers actually do all day. In large part they copy other people's work and add to it. You think some medieval scribe wasn't an expert in mixing pigments so that his ink looked exactly the same as Brother Sadfael's did? That's literally in the job description, mate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7967923, member: 18"] Yeah and you don't see the problem here? They're not going to be consistent. They're not always going to have the exact same kind of paper even inside a specific castle or sherrif's office or whatever. It doesn't come out of a factory, all neat and precise and exactly the same colour every time. There will be kinds of paper that are common in certain, small geographic areas. The sizes, colours and so on will probably vary quite a lot. You seem to get this bit. Problem is, a "forgery kit" cannot possibly deal with that, unless you are literally carrying hundreds of pieces of paper gathered from all over the region or even world (I noted this much earlier in the discussion). There's just too much diversity. Paper and parchment and so on are too varied. But this is all still a red herring - the problem is that the proficiency is with a kit. What is in that kit is actually kind of beside the point, because that proficiency shouldn't exist as a separate thing. Yeah they do. Think about it. Think about what scribes and calligraphers actually do all day. In large part they copy other people's work and add to it. You think some medieval scribe wasn't an expert in mixing pigments so that his ink looked exactly the same as Brother Sadfael's did? That's literally in the job description, mate. [/QUOTE]

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