[Discuss] adventurers cannot read

[James]

Jonathon Taylor wrote:
> Adventurers are nobles with there noble heritage removed from them and 
> left as commoners.
> Of course, it's entirely upto you if you want your adventurer to have 
> recieved a noble up bringing (and education) and perhaps been thrown 
> out of the noble hierarchy at a later date (after learning to read and 
> right).
>
> But judging from the mechanics of an adventurer and there ability to 
> only speak to those around them and to rulers, I would say that they 
> near enough always speak face to face except for in small 
> circumstances were distance is a factor.
>

Ink and paper was expensive (for someone that didn't have any sort of 
financial backing but what he finds), a non-noble would not be able to 
afford it for anything but the most dire of situations, I would think.  
Sending out messages to everyone in the realm wouldn't be practical.