It only needs a single person with a decent literacy to cover the whole party. It is easier to teach adventurer the basic of using a compendium rather than teaching them to be literate. He could also use image and symbol so even the most illiterate person can understand.to write a book how to survive in dungeons and monsters in that world? it is not a bad idea. it is very useful but how many can... uh read that book?
\It only needs a single person with a decent literacy to cover the whole party. It is easier to teach adventurer the basic of using a compendium rather than teaching them to be literate. He could also use image and symbol so even the most illiterate person can understand.
That falls back to a standard education system, and I'm pretty sure our MC just said that idea was stupid... Yeah, don't even consider taking the literacy rate of the common folk into account, otherwise this part of the story would fall apart.It turns out being extremist doesn't work too well, who would have thought.
They don't seem to be mentioning that this all requires a decent literacy level, which feeds back into public education.
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You're assuming that at least one third of the population (if it's a party of at least 3 adventurers) would need to know how to read and write though. It's a fantasy story that doesn't take its world building too seriously, but looking at the way the setting is being presented, do you see a lot of schools and commoner children being sent to them? The only schools we've heard about are for nobles, and commoners getting in is such a rarity. Rather than deal with the literacy rate of a world like that, the author chose to have everyone in the world automatically know how to read and write...otherwise the whole premise for the guide book would fall apart. The guy who wanted to have adventurers learn in a standardized system is the one closest to achieving something that would allow the largest amount of people to learn the basics of dungeon survival, and that would include learning to read and write.