Finally, some accurate medieval representation 😭
Comprehend Languages is a 1st-level Bard spell and can be cast as a ritual. The Bard has no excuse XD
The bard had to learn to read at bard college though no? This is just a deception to get friendly with the barbarian
Wasn’t it that depending on which mediveal sub-era, every house would have at least one person that knows how to read?
Like similar to how every immigrant household has one child as translator in case it comes up.
A bard who can’t read!? What!? Isn’t that one of the professions you go to school for!?
He majored in interpretive dance.
Interpretive this!
sick lute-shedding solo
If your lute is shedding, you need better lacquer on it.
In the lord of the rings mmo back in the day you could play an instrument and actually play notes and program songs to play them in game but most people would just post up at the inn, like dozens of people, and just play the most discordant faceroll shit imaginable to the point where you had to disable it in the settings.
Kinda broke the immersion a little bit, unless roving squads of bards performing the medieval equivalent of a yoko ono song in everybody’s face was a commonplace occurrence in those days.
If you go to Bree these days you’ll find highly coordinated bands performing actual music. It’s really impressive.
So having a non-human fantasy dwarf is fine, but people being able to read (modern English, no less) is too unrealistic?
I think you’re assuming a non-human fantasy dwarf here.
The stylized shortness of everyone obfuscates it somewhat, but I’ve never seen a person in a fantasy setting dressed like that with that weapon and facial hair who wasn’t a fantasy dwarf. It’s a very reasonable assumption.
Actually made me chuckle out loud. Good one.
Literacy rates in medieval times were not what they are today, but they’re still routinely underestimated. Most places, including peasant villages, would have had some people around who could read.
Then again, it also depends heavily in what part of the middle ages you are talking about. Early, high and late middle ages were almost different worlds in many regards.
In Norway we lost our written Norse language since everyone who could read died caring for the sick during the black plague. That’s part of the reason for why written Norwegian and Danish are so similar today.
It’s really easy for people to fail to really grasp that the middle ages still account for about half of the common era. They began in the 5th century and ended in the 15th. It was so long and so much happened. At the beginning Europeans were abandoning Roman structures and by the end they’d built things that even the greatest Roman engineers would be amazed by and wars included guns.
In the first Kingdom Come Deliverance you need to learn to read
Me: I can’t wait to-
Some dude: Hey our lord is mad at the lord from the other hill, so grab a pitchfork and join our army…or else.
