r/w languages

[crleonhard]

I have to say, I'm incredibly impressed with the quality of this ruleset. I'm curious about the existence of individual R/W toggles for the languages, though -- is there any situation in the game where someone can only read or write a language but not both? I would have thought a single literate/illiterate toggle would have sufficed, but I may be overlooking something.

[Zacchaeus]

I don't know this ruleset specifically but in other rulesets there's no such toggle. Characters 'know' a language; whether they can only read it or speak it would be theatre of the mind.

[crleonhard]

In this specific ruleset R/W toggles have been implemented on each language, which is a nice QOL feature since whether or not you know how to read/write each individual language you know is mechanically built into the rules. I was just wondering if having separate toggles for both read and write might not be overly granular, since AFAIK there's no mechanical provision in the rules for having one without the other.

[Zacchaeus]

Ah, sorry. I misread your post. I thought you were looking for such a toggle.

It would be unusual to not be able to write a language that you can speak or speak a language that you can't read. But I have actually met such people irl; so it's certainly a thing. Mechanically the only thing I can think would have an impact would be if an NPC spoke to the party in another language or the party found something written in another language, and so someone in the party might be able to not be able to translate even though they have knowledge of the language.

[damned]

In this specific ruleset R/W toggles have been implemented on each language, which is a nice QOL feature since whether or not you know how to read/write each individual language you know is mechanically built into the rules. I was just wondering if having separate toggles for both read and write might not be overly granular, since AFAIK there's no mechanical provision in the rules for having one without the other.

Ive never seen it used in any of the modules Ive read...

[crleonhard]

Ive never seen it used in any of the modules Ive read...

Right, same here, which is why I was asking. The way it's currently implemented necessitates clicking two different toggles to add literacy to a language rather than just one (which is all the game rules as written would seem to require). Granted, it's a miniscule nitpick with an otherwise flawless ruleset, but I thought I'd ask just in case I was missing some edge case that would justify having two separate toggles for reading and writing.