Missing Prereq on Speed-Reading

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by pawsplay

I don't have to assume anything; I know from my own education that Kromm's answer fails numerous reality tests. Unless anything paradigm-shattering has occured in cogntivie psychology over the last week or so, there is ample evidence that remembering meaningless strands of characters or even letters is completely different from speed-reading.

Kromm’s post (and my reply to nerdvana) doesn't have to do with a RW definition of speed-reading, but how it works in the game. If he says that the skill is supposed to allow for such, I don’t see a real value in arguing that that’s not what it says. You might have some more traction in contesting whether it should be so, but that appears to merely be a matter of taste, and a problem easily rectified by houserule.