They say the difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning. But what if the effort of learning was, practically, nothing? For regular people like you or I, that isn’t the case. However, for a select few “blessed” individuals, learning new skills is as easy as stabbing a poor sodding creature through the heart. I am of course referring to adventurers. Self righteous morons who, aside from the endless supply of coin, respect and fame, they also acquire something often overlooked on their adventures: experience. All the while, those of us down in the real world have to wonder what is the point of learning?
You would think that all that dungeon delving would in fact provide knowledge primarily on dungeoneering but, no. That is wildly inaccurate. These sword swinging, spell slinging, aresholes manage to pick up a wide variety of knowledge and skills doing what they do best. I’m sure you’re asking yourself but, how does that work? I mean, if I want to be the foremost expert on all things undead, then I have to pore over endless texts and manuscripts on the subject where as these high and mighty douchebags just go all murderhobo on a village of Kobolds. Fuck that.
And it’s the ease with which they do it, too. It took me 4 years of study to learn to hold a conversation in a foreign tongue. Some prick can go into a dungeon, solve a few riddles save the world and then the next day they are fluent in 4 different languages. How is that fair? And not only that, if they are “so busy” saving the world, when the hell do they have time to engage with Dupo, the magical language teaching owl? I think there’s definitely something fishy going on.
I once met this bloke. Built like a brick shit house and about twice as dumb as one. Proper “shiny sharp metal go stabby stab” type. Well, I’ll be damned if he didn’t pop into a dungeon one time and come back having more than a working knowledge of the wonders of the universe. I mean, what is the point of learning? Why do I have to work my fingers to the bone to get a seat at the academic table when I could, quite easily, strap on a suit of armor and go kick a goblin in the knackers?
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