Post originally by Jack Fortune at 2004-07-03 11:34:57
Converted from Phorums BB System

I would agree that most of common folk at this time were illiterate, but let's put this back into the game context. Since most players will have characters who are highly skilled, then I would say those characters would be literate. All of the priest and wizard (I can't think of any Bronze Age wizards. Can you? Anyone?) classes would be literate. A Hero, or skilled fighter, of this time would more than likely be of noble birth, so he would be literate as well. The only class I could think of that would more than likely be illiterate would be the thief class. Someone could play a common soldier that gains fame on the battlefield, but this is never done in Homer. All of the characters have some kind of noble blood.

I think the problem with this product lies in the fact that there was too much copying from D&D stuff and not enough genre specific content. A missed opportunity to create something really detailed and specific to the times it is set in.