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<blockquote data-quote="Fenris-77" data-source="post: 7968012" data-attributes="member: 6993955">A player character with calligrapher supplies does whatever they want. They aren't necessarily scribes by profession, and could (and are) often described as artists. The historical period you point to doesn't matter either, not really, D&amp;D doesn't map to one period anyway. The answer to the question at hand is not to be found by indexing history, or at least not solely that. What a professional scribe NPC does in D&amp;D might be enormously different according to setting, so indexing specific historical models would actually be pretty counter productive to the somewhat setting agnostic approach of the main rules books.&nbsp;You missed my point I think. Unless you're forgin things you wouldn't have the stuff to do so on hand because the supplies are different. Obviously you could get them.Let me try this one more time. No comparison of real world to fantasy forgery was made or even implied. What was called into question was the possible fallacious appeal to authority of saying &quot;I'm an art major so I know these things&quot;.&nbsp; That's not to say that an art major might know something about calligraphy, or indeed about the medieval period, as they might know both, but that doesn't make their opinion of fantasy forgery rules any more or less correct. I have two degrees in Medieval History and am also a competent calligrapher, but that doesn't win me any points here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fenris-77, post: 7968012, member: 6993955"] A player character with calligrapher supplies does whatever they want. They aren't necessarily scribes by profession, and could (and are) often described as artists. The historical period you point to doesn't matter either, not really, D&D doesn't map to one period anyway. The answer to the question at hand is not to be found by indexing history, or at least not solely that. What a professional scribe NPC does in D&D might be enormously different according to setting, so indexing specific historical models would actually be pretty counter productive to the somewhat setting agnostic approach of the main rules books. You missed my point I think. Unless you're forgin things you wouldn't have the stuff to do so on hand because the supplies are different. Obviously you could get them. Let me try this one more time. No comparison of real world to fantasy forgery was made or even implied. What was called into question was the possible fallacious appeal to authority of saying "I'm an art major so I know these things". That's not to say that an art major might know something about calligraphy, or indeed about the medieval period, as they might know both, but that doesn't make their opinion of fantasy forgery rules any more or less correct. I have two degrees in Medieval History and am also a competent calligrapher, but that doesn't win me any points here. [/QUOTE]

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