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DnD skill system just is that stupid, just like their attribute system, equipment system and combat system. Its best to enjoy their fluidity and to avoid thinking about their implications.

Lizzie wrote:

This is a video game, and that's just an accepted concession that we make, in order to be able to play a video game with rules.

A language system is not part of this video game and its rules, so I don't see your point. Because some things in NWN/D&D are retarded, we should voluntarily embrace additional stupidity?

IronAngel wrote:

A language system is not part of this video game and its rules, so I don't see your point. Because some things in NWN/D&D are retarded, we should voluntarily embrace additional stupidity?

The conversation is about whether a specific system should become part of the rules. (The local rules, not the game's rules, granted.) And in the ruleset we're playing under, people with lots of levels are better at things than people with few levels. I agree that it's not particularly reflective of how real life works, but it does have other advantages: It's simple, it's unambiguous, it's not dependent on the honor system (which, as we know, rarely works).

Leonid Sergey knows:

Common
Chondathan (comes from Targos, the civilized North)
Mulhorandi (Was once a slave in Mulhorandi)

how about pruning this topic and keep it to be what it is meant for?
The discussion was viewtopic.php?f=4&t=61139 there.

Algot Zorastryl, Halruuan Wizard and Linguist
Racial: Common
Regional: Halruuan
Int-based/Learnt: Netherese, Loross, Infernal, Draconic and Ruathlek.
(All from his mentor/father before his passing.)

In the light of the recent events I am giving this thread a BUMP!

For gods sake no. Can people not just write this in their bios... I fail to see the purpose of this thread. If you know language X Y Z then you know it, no need to make a thread.

I think its quite a relevant bump with Terra's testing of languages yesterday. Though I think Terra allready cooked up a formula (1 + 1 per base int modifier + 1 per 15 lore)

I fail to see why would someone know which languages my character knows by looking at them? With Terra's new system you cant know more languages then your maximum anyway (I hope)

The only question I have is: Does the job linguist influence maximum languages known?

Very_Svensk wrote:

For gods sake no. Can people not just write this in their bios... I fail to see the purpose of this thread. If you know language X Y Z then you know it, no need to make a thread.

The purpose is that some players wrote down their languages a long time ago, and now they can use this thread to remember which ones. It helped me.

This is not IC thread, it's entirely OOC.

Fuckit. I'm in.

Aly'dra Zau'ana
Drow
Drow Hand (Noble House)
Elven
Common (Taught by Oninre)

Delia Am'Anodel
Elven (Racial)
Common
Thorass (Due to being from Athkatla, where it is used exclusively in writing)
Celestial (Racial)
Drow (Fluent, taught by her husband)
Drow Hand (Passable, taught by Yudann, though she lacks much of what she needs to truly speak it)

Katsumi Aizawa Amne
Kozakuran (Native)
Elven (Racial)
Common (taught in Zhentil Keep)
Drow (Fluent, taught by Gloth D'Tsab)
Drow Hand (Passable, though again, she lacks infravision, taught by Gloth.)
Draconic (former mage)

Nelene Snyder Kabator Shaji Helvet
Sigil Cant (Native)
Common
Abyssal (Racial)
Draconic (Taught by Ein Shaji)

Elrien Rowa
Drow
Drow Hand
Elven
Common (Taught by House Gray)
Draconic (Silverkin)

Liress Rowa
Drow
Drow Hand
Common
Elven
Draconic
Abyssal
Infernal

Very_Svensk wrote:

For gods sake no. Can people not just write this in their bios... I fail to see the purpose of this thread. If you know language X Y Z then you know it, no need to make a thread.

It is not that hard to find the purpose of this thread, if you had looked, Svensk.

Dark Immolation wrote:

I am creating this thread as something similar to the "Waiver" thread to be used as a reference. This is in no way to be official, and it wouldn't really matter if it was, but it allows people to point to this thread when they are accused of metagaming a language. Pretty much you can say "Hey, I've already said my PC know's this language, I didn't just claim it out of the blue."

Also, this thread is 3 years old, and as such existed long before we even hand an inkling of a mechanical language system. It serves its purpose with or without one.

As well, no thank you, I will not be putting my PCs languages in their bio, so others know what languages not to speak around them OoCly.

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