Is your character cultured/educated?
>>96430274No, he's a mercenary and an executioner. He knows enough to read the sentence out and to observe his customs, but otherwise he's not particularly inclined towards culture. He whittles and scrimshaws if that counts.
i usually want them to be but i always come across as a dick; much more fun to be ignorant and even bigoted
>>96430298educated people are dickish and arrogant
You should be forced to spend skill points to not be illiterate.
>>96430462Forced? For majority of mankind's history vast majority of population was illiterate and they did just fine. The notion that every child should be taught to read and write is a novelty.
My character is an idiot.
>>96430280you reek of fat
>>96430274Why did people like those shapeless hats so much in the Renaissance?
>>96430469illiteracy was fundamentally an issue of easy to make and cheap writing materials. The moment it is economically feasible for the mass creation of both reading and writing materials we see a massive increase in literacy hampered only by the state in most cases like the russian empire. If you play dnd and you can easily, probably with magical assistance, make paper then obviously the players will be literate and so will most of the population.
>>96430521The same reason they liked baloon pants and puffy sleeves - to show off that they can afford to waste fabric and dress impractically, signaling they are well off and above manual labor.
>>96430274Both of my current characters are pretty uneducated working-class types. My previous character in the latest campaign we finished had an academic background, though I wouldn't call him cultured, as he was pretty rough in manner and materialistic in terms of his interests.>>96430298You can be both educated and bigoted. Just look at Dr. Joseph Goebbels. >>96430521Fashion is weird. I don't know if there's more to it.
>>96430541Would every nation want mass literacy? Literate population is more difficult to control - heretical preacher or hostile agitator is relatively easy to notice and intercept. Books spreading those same subversive ideas can travel unnoticed.
>>96430521>centuries of dogshit fashion>suddenly the pure kinoid perfection that is the chaperon appears
>>96430559no but good luck stopping the influx of material from neighboring countries/kingdoms. If you have a sufficiently economically developed population then it is inevitable, just like it happened in western europe. It was deemed more feasible as a means of minority suppression to try to ban their entire language and it's use than to ban literacy itself and any potentially subversive or agitative texts.
>>96430545fashion is always shaped by the material realities of the times. see >>96430542Impractical and overly elaborate clothing that couldn't be worn without assistance was pretty much the norm for rich societies with a high degree of wealth inequality. It is the same from italy, to germany, to persia, to india, to china to japan. In the modern world this had been altered by living in post modern societies but it still holds true for up to the second world war in many societies
>>96430274Ogre is not educatet.Ogre is experienced, though
>>96430562That's not a chaperon. It is, in fact, what replaced the chaperon in many places.
>>96430462Literacy is a skill that costs 100xp in Dark Heresy, usually unlocked in the early-mid ranks of any career. Only certain character archetypes start with the ability to read.
>>96430274Yeah, well for his "age" as he is an half-elf in his 20s and he was raised by elves. So towards most other races he is aloof but is pretty educated. Though most elves see him as a child/teen.
>>96430274Considering he's a beast man who goes around in rags, people generally regard him as a savage. He's actually rather philosophical in a classical Greek cynacist sort of way (he draws on Diogenes to sone extent), but due to his propensity to speak like a character written by Lord Dunsany most people haven't a clue what he's talking about.
>>96430476>>96430669
>>96430274>educationShe knows three languages (Common, Elven and Gnome) and she also knows basic economics (math, logistics, organizing a workforce, supply&demand and running a local small bussiness)>cultureRedneck.
>>96430794>can't even organize her own party
>>96430797Demented, slackers and thugs are not ideal workforce.
>>96430274stonemason, architect, and occassional siege engineer (because knowing how to make them means knowing how to break them), just wants to build shit, struggles with even most basic social norms
>>96430805people management is all about making functional engine out of broken parts
>>96430825That's a very broad category of "people" you have there
>>96430274Druid is a Tarzan/Mowgli 'raised by wolves' type, who was raised by a pack of velociraptors, and taught druid magic by a Lamia and a Unicorn.She is a feral who can barely read, can't write, and has little understanding of money.She is, however, one of the best trackers around, and can speak near every local language, including a natural affinity to speak with, and understand, theropod dinosaurs. Which means her enmity with the t-rex that killed her parents is both real, and deeply personal for the two of them.
Cultured? Probably.Educated? Yes.
>>96430541>If you play dnd and you can easily, probably with magical assistance, make paper then obviously the players will be literate and so will most of the population.Not only that, you have a spell in D&D that can copy plain text>>96430559>Literate population is more difficult to controlBut also literal population is more productive so you gain much more profit from less people. You don't need to control everyone.
These modern 'fads' like books, currency and houses make men less than what they were and represent a physical and spiritual severance from the spirit of the land.My character is willfully illiterate.>>96430854I think we could be friends.
>>96430274Of the Active games I'm in (Some are on hiatus in favor of these games): >Game 1 (Digimon)Both of them are ostensibly stupid, but the Digimon has the Quality/Perk that lets her improve her Brains-related checks (covers Charisma/Intelligence/Willpower skills, as in DDA tamers are the ones with a stat/skill split as they're meant to use skills)>Game 2 (Digimon)Both the Tamer and Digimon are intelligent. The human is very smart. The digimon is skilled with code manipulation but lacks human common sense (she didn't know what a fork was)>Game 3 (Digimon)They're both two flavors of stupid. The human is a charismatic airhead pretty boy, the digimon is a dumb violent idiot who loves fighting.>Game 4 (Digimon)Both are intelligent. The human leans harder into emotional intelligence and book learning, while the Digimon is nearing master levels of code manipulation and as the white mage has inherently high brains as the way effects scale requires the derived stat for that to be high.>Game 5 (Halo)A Jackal Sniper. He's got above-average intelligence, but his actual skills in knowledge are fairly lacking; he's a bit crazy and prefers popping heads to making his own brain expand.>Game 6 (Dragonball)Despite being a Saiyan, she's an engineer. She's got good book-learning, very good science, and decent medical knowledge. So yeah, she's smart, especially relative to the party where the arcosian/frieza race guy is on par with her mechanical/science knowledge but inferior to her in terms of book-learning.Mind you, I prefer playing the nice guy dumbass (the first character listed is best described as "friendship dumbass") archetype.
>EducatedYes>CulturedIdk. Would you describe furrybait Frankenstein as cultured?
>>96430274My current character is educated as a product of being ordained as an agent of his church and an active member of the surrounding communities. He's an agent in the guise of priesthood who is familiar with the customs of the region and how they relate to and emerged from religious belief and vice versa. He's pretty quick on the uptake of new customs and superstitions and is accommodating toward the end of not painting the faith he represents in a bad light. In the past, a sect of his order got involved in some nasty business so he tries to run good PR wherever he goes.
>>96433830I guess that counts as educated
>>96430274>WHFRP Cleric of ManaanEducated? Yes. Cultured? No. He was a career petty officer before he found his calling, and is still pretty rough around the edges.>CoC University studentEducated? Yes. Cultured? Yes. Smart? Not really. Son of a old money family, who's whose rich boy hedonism playing at occultism in his old money fraternity. No common sense, and the survival instincts of a lemming.
>>96436401I guess I didn't specify, but he's educated in history and a basic level of etiquette so that he's not out there making an ass of himself.
>>96436940Which classes are the most educated? Wizard and cleric?
>>96438000Yes.
>>96430274Yes, canonically his retirement was him writing terribly composed theatrical performances about the party's adventures which while bad had massive interest due to the obscure and well researched facts it needlessly provided about cultures, fauna and flora. A point of contention between him (a Wizard) and the Bard of the party whose retirement was performing sagas about the group.
>>96438082Kek who's was better?
>>96432479How does furrybait get an education?
>>96430274Educated, yes. Cultured, not really.
