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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 2893795" data-attributes="member: 4441">Rystil, I actually think Tailspinner is responsible for that Dawnforge primer...doghead, languages are bought with skill points as usual, and the talent bonus to skill points would let you learn new languages.  As for what languages there are, I'll post that later tonight.  unleashed, lowlander spirit adapt sounds good!Now, I have something I would like to run by you all.  People that have played with me before might note that I sometimes try out new rules varients in my PbP games.  I have one I'd like to try.  I kind of dislike the idea of a Common tongue that can express the full range of emotion and ideas as a regional tongue.  I understand its use, because there are some logistical difficulties in translating all the time.However, I have an alternate solution.  The Common tongue would be purely a trade language, a few words modified by gestures, emphasis, and expression used to conduct business with foreigners.  I have a rather interesting handout I got from my dad (his DM used it in one of his games some time back), that would show how the Common tongue (called Trader on the handout) would be spoken.  Take a look and see if it's something you'd like to do.  If it seems like too much trouble, no problem, we can go with the Common language as a universal language as normal.</blockquote>