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patentoverwriten (01/04/2016) [-] How do you THAT GUY so hard that you pick the same thing three times when you agreed to change it...
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vegasstoner (01/05/2016) [-]
maybe he wanted to teach the party to not judge a character by his skin...
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davidbowiesensei (01/05/2016) [-] Or his bull horns... or his hooves... or his entirely bull-shaped head.
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peliaosfiendline (01/04/2016) [-] no, he had to have at least average intelligence, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to read the handbooks.
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applescryatnight (01/04/2016) [-]
you dont need average int to read
you need 3 int to be juuust above an animal
so 4 int 2 wis is about right
you need 3 int to be juuust above an animal
so 4 int 2 wis is about right
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peliaosfiendline (01/05/2016) [-] I think in one of the older rulesets, if you didn't have a high enough int you couldn't speak properly, let alone read. You could still understand words being said, though you might not know what the bigger ones mean.
I feel that would be going too far, but I do think that you'd need average adult intelligence to properly read the kind of stuff they have in player's handbooks. Let's face it, no PHB has ever been written at a first grade reading level.
I feel that would be going too far, but I do think that you'd need average adult intelligence to properly read the kind of stuff they have in player's handbooks. Let's face it, no PHB has ever been written at a first grade reading level.
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schneidend ONLINE (01/04/2016) [-] 3 Int just lets you be smarter than an animal. Doesn't necessarily allow you to read. A minotaur with 3 Int would only be able to speak Giant or some other equivalent language, and your ability to read would depend on the rule set, possibly class, and the GM. I'd rule that most savage race individuals simply can't read unless they spend skill points on it and have been educated in some way in their backstory.
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lokiak (01/05/2016) [-]
according to 3.5 rules "A literate character (anyone but a barbarian who has not spent skill points to become literate) can read and write any language she speaks. Each language has an alphabet, though sometimes several spoken languages share a single alphabet. "
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schneidend ONLINE (01/05/2016) [-] I'd still probably rule that your average goblin or orc cannot read. Even if their languages have written forms, that doesn't mean elders necessarily teach them. Parenting for races like orcs, goblins, and gnolls is often described as a callous, negligent affair. And, even if they can read, a creature with 3-11 Int is only going to know its base languages. For Minotaurs, that's Giant, not Common.
