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[andy6915]

It is plausible that some dirt-scrubbing peasant in medieval-land, or a slave or what have you, has never had any particular chance to pursue an education. However, I don't know how much of that would be true for any of the Warden backgrounds because the Warden is fairly good at fighting, and getting good at fighting requires significant time not spent struggling for food to survive (i.e. it requires a certain degree of wealth) or for your survival to be more directly tied to fighting (i.e. it's your profession in some form or another.) I could believe it for the Dwarven Commoner background I guess.

 

Or a Dalish, or city elf, or even a Dwarven noble. In the Dalish's case, you might be very educated and smart of Dalish and elven stuff all while also being very ignorant about anything not to do with your own people. City elves are always very uneducated to begin with and is probably quite ignorant too. And the DN might be extremely smart and educated about the dwarves while knowing very little of the surface because of a lack of care to learn about it.

[Realmzmaster]

Actually wardens come from all walks of life from kings to peasants. Peasants can get very good at fighting for survival feending off wild animals etc. Duncan recruited anyone he thought would be of value to the Wardens. Remember he recruited Daveth who came from an unmapped village and went to Denerim and became a criminal. I doubt Daveth had much in the way of formal education or fight training.

 

Duncan also was not formally trained. He became a thief after the death of his parents at a young age. He was about to be executed for killing a Grey Warden (who thank him for his death). The Warden Commander Genevieve conscripted Duncan. She reason anyone that could kill a Grey Warden was useful.

 

I have also found people who have lived their whole life in a certain part of the city that have absolutely no information about other parts of the same city. The questions they ask once they have to venture into the other parts may seem stupid to a lot of people in that city, but the person asking has does not know.

[cindercatz]

Those questions are crucial for a first-time player, and can be avoided the second time around. What's the problem?

Phrasing. That's it really. Instead of the character directly channeling the player like someone who's never set foot in that world ('Darkspawn? Geth? Whuh-huh? *irk*.. brainfreeze...), just paraphrase the question for the player, then when it's selected, the character just informs the player through declarative dialogue. "We studied the vids back in.." "I've heard the stories.."

 

Odd, kinda inappropriate first person roleplay phrasing is really a relic of silent protags. With the fully voiced dialogue, that kind of thing breaks character for a while. It creates narrative dissonance if you pick up on it. Rephrase things a little bit, juggle the speaker, problem solved.

 

(Apologies if someone's already said this, just jumped in..)

[MrMrPendragon]

The protagonist isn't an idiot. The possibility of him being an idiot exists, but you get to decide if he acts like an idiot.

 

I think I've said "idiot" way too many times.

[Patchwork]

The protagonist isn't an idiot. The possibility of him being an idiot exists, but you get to decide if he acts like an idiot.

 

I think I've said "idiot" way too many times.

 

ME3's Auto dialogue Shepard proves otherwise.