Moon-Lancer
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*edit* nevermind
Agreed.Xiam said:BTW, what's the problem with druidic? Apart from the fact that druids keep it secret there is nothing special about it and it's a language like any other one. I see no problem in allowing a PC to understand and speak druidic for an hour or so.
Drowbane said:As I understand the spell, Tongues facilitates conversation.... regardless of Language barriers.
Imagine a gathering of 5 creatures (lets say; orc, elf druid, satyr, human, and a dwarf... and just for kicks, the elf only speaks druidic), none of which have languages in common with each other, the Tongues spell would allow them to communicate, each creature hearing the other creatures in his native tongue (orcs hears orcish, the Druid hears druidic, etc, etc).
So its really not so much a matter of the other creatures understanding druidic... they're just understanding the druid.
SRD said:The subject can speak only one language at a time, although it may be able to understand several languages.
Arbiter of Wyrms said:...ruling that tongues allows the subject to speak the (or a) first language of the target creature. I believe that that is the intent of the spell and that anything more is broken (for my campagin).
Darmok and Jalad at TenagraHuw said:Short answer: yes.
However, depending on your game world, druidic might not be a language as such. It might be the local language with enough code words and conventions put in to render it unrecognisable to outsiders, like real world polari and shelta.
Alternatively, tongues will translate it into recognisable words, but the sentences might sound like riddles. Druids will already know the answers to these riddles from their training. This would be similar to a Mandarin chengyu .
Ogrork the Mighty said:That's a pretty big nerf for a 3rd-lvl spell...