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<blockquote data-quote="Systole" data-source="post: 5910147" data-attributes="member: 93930"><p>I like the idea of a free regional language. However, I'm not sure there's a need to split Broken Common out from Common. It's a fluff thing. Maui and Daylily might butcher the language, but they can both make themselves understood.</p><p> </p><p>As far as the realism of everyone speaking Common, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that the PCs are simply drawn from the subset of adventurers who learned Common at some point. There are tens of thousands of Jiragans who don't speak Common and have never set foot outside Jirago. There are probably hundreds besides Daylily who went on walkabout. Some of them never bothered to learn Venzan. Daylily is one of the ones who did (sort of). There's no need to invoke divine intervention or Universal Translators or whatnot.</p><p> </p><p>And like SK said, you can pretty much consider English to be the real-world equivalent of a Common tongue. A lot of people speak it (sort of) as their second or third language. So any innkeeper will probably speak common. A village full of farmers will probably have one or two people who can speak a few words. It's not a huge barrier to overcome.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Systole, post: 5910147, member: 93930"] I like the idea of a free regional language. However, I'm not sure there's a need to split Broken Common out from Common. It's a fluff thing. Maui and Daylily might butcher the language, but they can both make themselves understood. As far as the realism of everyone speaking Common, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that the PCs are simply drawn from the subset of adventurers who learned Common at some point. There are tens of thousands of Jiragans who don't speak Common and have never set foot outside Jirago. There are probably hundreds besides Daylily who went on walkabout. Some of them never bothered to learn Venzan. Daylily is one of the ones who did (sort of). There's no need to invoke divine intervention or Universal Translators or whatnot. And like SK said, you can pretty much consider English to be the real-world equivalent of a Common tongue. A lot of people speak it (sort of) as their second or third language. So any innkeeper will probably speak common. A village full of farmers will probably have one or two people who can speak a few words. It's not a huge barrier to overcome. [/QUOTE]
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