Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
Alas, I'm not running any games myself, or else I probably would make some players try to read the enemy's battle plans while combat is going on around them. Really, I just slipped that in there because it made sense to specify, just in case.

I might have to do something about taking 10. The easiest thing would be to change the base DC to 10 rather than 0; then, literate characters do not automatically succeed on everyday reading tasks, but they may take 10 to do so.

I'm also thinking of changing it so that you don't need to specify that you read faster; you automatically take less time if you beat the DC by 5 or more.
Taking 10 is never good. Because then you fall into the trap of people with a 9 in int being unable to read books normally...