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[–] betatron@piefed.social 12 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

If you go this way, since quests are part of the economy in these medieval fantasy societies, a person that can read would be next to the board to read the quests to the adventurers. One reason to learn to read is to stop paying the quest reader.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 16 hours ago

Yep, a town crier like role.

Hell even in the American West, people would gather round for someone actually literate to read the latest newspaper.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 5 points 15 hours ago

If you want to get even more real, the people who maintain the quests, usually the adventurer's guild or the hunter's guild in these stories, would pay for the quest reader. Probably the people who accept the quest requests would just tell the adventurers what to do, and bypass the entire board.

It would be in the guild's interests to have illiterate people do quests even if they were poor, to control who got what quests, and not to let the adventurers get too smart. The guild would be able to scam them out of so much money that way.

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Death march to a parallel world Rhapsody has this. I mean the story is very meh but the world building is fenomenal.