nerdvana Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I personally see it odd that Legend doesn't include Literacy either as a core Advanced skill or as an optional one. Does anyone see a problem with adding it in (say borrowing from the BGB for most of the specifics) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auyl Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I don't see a problem with adding it. The advanced skill "Language" does cover both however at the call of the game master. Quote Get all our products at our website: www.devotedpublishing.com Check Solace Games out on Facebook here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdvana Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 True. But knowing how to speak a language and knowing how to interpret scribbles on paper (stone, what have you) into the same language are two different things entirely IMNSHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auyl Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I'm not disagreeing with you. The great thing about a ruleset such as Legend is that it invites people to add to it. If you want to add a Literacy skill, you're more than welcome to. Quote Get all our products at our website: www.devotedpublishing.com Check Solace Games out on Facebook here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmitchell Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 You might be interested in a thread I started in the BRP forum. Short version: instead of a general "Literacy" skill or a "Read/Write X" for every spoken X, you could define a new skill for every script, e.g. Latin Letters (most languages of Europe and the Americas), Cyrillic (mainly Slavic languages), Arabic (most languages in the Muslim world), Hanji (Chinese characters), etc. Some alphabets are wholly phonetic, making them trivial enough to pick up (e.g. Japanese Hiragana and Katakana or Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics); others might be trivially similar to other alphabets (e.g. Latin, Cyrillic, Coptic, and Greek letters). Adapt as needed for your fantasy world. Quote Frank "Welcome to the hottest and fastest-growing hobby of, er, 1977." -- The Laundry RPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdvana Posted January 12, 2014 Author Share Posted January 12, 2014 I was thinking of something exactly like that. Thanks for reminding me of your thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Legend either assumes that people are literate or not. Having a Literacy skill will work without any problems. Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdvana Posted January 12, 2014 Author Share Posted January 12, 2014 Once I've fully fleshed out my thoughts on this I'll post my take here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdvana Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share Posted January 15, 2014 So after careful consideration (and discussion with some of my RL RPG think tank... i.e. my players) I've decided that each language gets its own literacy skill (assuming the language has a written form) because knowledge of one language using a script and another using the same (or similar) script really doesn't map that well IMO (looking at English to Spanish for example). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmitchell Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I've decided that each language gets its own literacy skill (assuming the language has a written form) because knowledge of one language using a script and another using the same (or similar) script really doesn't map that well IMO (looking at English to Spanish for example). English is a bad example. Other European languages have far more regular spelling, e.g. Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish. That said, your fantasy world works however you want it to. Quote Frank "Welcome to the hottest and fastest-growing hobby of, er, 1977." -- The Laundry RPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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