Great example. A few pages later Forgath makes another comment regarding reading ability, though I can't determine if 'everyone' includes non PC races.Derkins wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:17 am The goblins seem very skeptical of Minimax's aggressive attitude toward the flying paper. I seriously doubt they would've helped to launch his heavy, armored butt up there -- especially quickly and efficiently without complaining or arguing. lol
And yeah - reading ability comes with race, and you can acquire extra languages depending on class. In the monster manual goblins are listed as having Gblin and Common as languages. If they could only speak and not read it, that would be indicated. I have a character that can speak Dwarven but can't read it. It's indicated on my character sheet.
I think at the beginning someone Fumbles was going to take a bunch of random and useless partial languages or something, due to all of his multi-classing. I don't remember clearly -- it's been a while since I read those pages.
The first time they read something it was Minimax's character sheet:
http://goblinscomic.com/comic/07032005
http://goblinscomic.com/comic/07102005