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| | This is interesting. Would there be a similar chart for bonuses/penalties for decipher script? -gm | | This is interesting. Would there be a similar chart for bonuses/penalties for decipher script? -gm |
| − | :It's worth looking into, actually, and definitely interesting, especially if distinctions are made between pictographic and phonetic alphabets. -[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]]
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| | :Holy cow you just killed a bunch of text.. did you mean to be doing that? -[[User:Feantari|Feantari]] | | :Holy cow you just killed a bunch of text.. did you mean to be doing that? -[[User:Feantari|Feantari]] |
| − | ::He normally doesn't. He's famous for his simul-edit gaffes. -[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]] | + | :: No, I've been unable to fully adapt to having many people on the wiki. I have become fail, the destroyer of content! -gm |
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| − | Perhaps not related should simply not be possible to roll for? I mean at that point you are probably down to hand gestures and body language which might be better represented with some sort of attribute roll. And, of course, making this rule you then have to have a table for all the languages and their relationships (which would certainly add some fun to figure out, but might overcomplicate things). I wonder if it wouldn't be better to just have a list of dialects or closely related languages for each. You then either have a chance to roll or not, and if you do it is a static sort of DC. All depends on How fond your DM is of big tables to be looking things up in I guess. -[[User:Feantari|Feantari]]
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| − | :Possibly, and that's why the DC is super-high--not worth rolling in most circumstances, but some extraordinary (or magical, although I have no idea what since magic exists that completely nullifies the language question) thing could happen that could make it theoretically possible.-[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]]
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| − | :In general, I would picture that most of the major languages are either distantly related, or not related, and those DCs are firmly outside the realm of possibility in most circumstances. This would only come up if a country had a bunch of languages (like Fresia, assuming abs gives the go-ahead on some development there). -[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]]
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| − | On that note, one thing worth examining is whether or not magic that allows people to instantly understand any language should be removed. D&D takes great pains to essentially remove language considerations from the equation, whereas this world has a bit more linguistic flavor. That's completely up to GM, though.-[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]]
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Revision as of 13:30, 17 February 2010
Here are some proposed mechanics for related languages:
Attempting to get a message across when speakers understand related languages depends on the complexity of the message, and the closeness of the linguistic relation. An Intelligence (Sense Motive is a possibility here... If that is used, the DCs should be higher) roll is made against the DC given in the table. Failure by 4 or less indicates that some essential point is lost in conveying the message, but the general idea is gotten across. Failure by 5-10 means that some essential point is MIS-understood, and false information is conveyed. Failure by 11 or more means that no information is conveyed.
DCs for Intelligence check for understanding related language
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Dialects |
Closely Related |
Related |
Distantly Related |
Not Related
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| Simple Message |
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5 |
10 |
20 |
30
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| Complex Message |
5 |
10 |
20 |
30 |
40
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This is interesting. Would there be a similar chart for bonuses/penalties for decipher script? -gm
- Holy cow you just killed a bunch of text.. did you mean to be doing that? -Feantari
- No, I've been unable to fully adapt to having many people on the wiki. I have become fail, the destroyer of content! -gm
