How does an illeterate char read a literacy skill scroll? I oppose blocking the char or any char, from deveopling a literacy skill. It is not like the Gaea limitation of no weapons and that can be changed and it doesn't prevent a broad range of other skills from being dveloped.
On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 07:41:15PM +0000, Ketchetwahmeegwun T. Southall wrote: > I certainly prefer having the barbarian being illiterate, as it adds to the > game feel. However, for new players its certainly better to have information > up front and accessible. Perhaps all "god-given" (starting) readables should > always be readable? Otherwise, this should be declared as a strong initial > limit to understanding the game in some sort of class description during > character creation. > > August 21, 2025 3:12 AM, "Preston Crow" <pc-crossfir...@crowcastle.net> wrote: > > > I would think the right way to handle lack of literacy would be to have > > alternate text for critical things that is what is sent when someone > > without sufficient literacy skill tries to read it. Of course, this > > requires a bunch of work to add the new alternate text in a ton of > > places. Another option is to use the skill level of what is being read, > > and if it's -1, someone without literacy skill could still read it. > > Just fixing up the obvious stuff in Scorn is probably sufficient. > > > > That said, I'm not convinced that simply handing out the skill to start > > with isn't the right thing to do unless it's going to be impossible to > > ever get the skill. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > crossfire mailing list > > crossfire@metalforge.org > > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire > > IRC: http://crossfire.real-time.com/irc/index.html > > Discord: http://crossfire.real-time.com/discord/index.html > > Project Site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire > > Wiki: http://wiki.cross-fire.org > > Website: http://crossfire.real-time.com > _______________________________________________ > crossfire mailing list > crossfire@metalforge.org > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire > IRC: http://crossfire.real-time.com/irc/index.html > Discord: http://crossfire.real-time.com/discord/index.html > Project Site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/ > Wiki: http://wiki.cross-fire.org/ > Website: http://crossfire.real-time.com -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire IRC: http://crossfire.real-time.com/irc/index.html Discord: http://crossfire.real-time.com/discord/index.html Project Site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/ Wiki: http://wiki.cross-fire.org/ Website: http://crossfire.real-time.com
