Diplomatic Immunity OOC: The Third

[Rystil Arden]

I wrote footnotes on my college application essay where a literary scholar was making humourous remarks like "The meter here seems a bit off. The author was probably either drunk while writing it or lazy and hoping we would read it too quickly to notice" The name of the critic was Nadie Affato. I still think that's a cute name (translated in Spanish and Italian, it means 'no one at all')

 

[D20Dazza]

Like Nevyn in the Katherine Kerr series - cool.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Dazza--It's amazing considering how generically you wrote it, but you actually managed to get something in your character wrong In space, no one can hear you speak Common...because there is no Common

 

[Bront]

LOL.

Closest thing to Common is Eldiz, but that's mostly because it's the sort of center hub of the spheres (all the common nations/spheres have an embasy there), and while there's a good shot to find someone who speaks it in any town of good size, it's not something that even 50% of the universe speaks it appears.

 

[Rystil Arden]

LOL.

Closest thing to Common is Eldiz, but that's mostly because it's the sort of center hub of the spheres (all the common nations/spheres have an embasy there), and while there's a good shot to find someone who speaks it in any town of good size, it's not something that even 50% of the universe speaks it appears.

I find it more fun and interesting that way. Plus I don't have the hideously annoying rules lawyers bugging me to force animals to instantaneously learn Common by virtue of having an Int above 2. I mean, if you switch Common to English, you could even conceive of some horribly offensive and racist overtones to the statement "Any creature with an Intelligence score of 2 or greater speaks Common."

 

[Bront]

I find it more fun and interesting that way. Plus I don't have the hideously annoying rules lawyers bugging me to force animals to instantaneously learn Common by virtue of having an Int above 2. I mean, if you switch Common to English, you could even conceive of some horribly offensive and racist overtones to the statement "Any creature with an Intelligence score of 2 or greater speaks Common."

Sounds like the immigration debate (And that's as far as that conversation will go )

 

[unleashed]

I find it more fun and interesting that way. Plus I don't have the hideously annoying rules lawyers bugging me to force animals to instantaneously learn Common by virtue of having an Int above 2. I mean, if you switch Common to English, you could even conceive of some horribly offensive and racist overtones to the statement "Any creature with an Intelligence score of 2 or greater speaks Common."

Common though shouldn't convert to English, as Common is supposed to be a 'trade tongue', and not a specific racial or regional language. The Forgotten Realms shows how it is supposed to work best, with all humans having a clearly defined regional language as well as speaking the trade tongue (Common). As for creature with an Int above 2, they should speak their regional language if anything, unless they interact with many cultures.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Common though shouldn't convert to English, as Common is supposed to be a 'trade tongue', and not a specific racial or regional language. The Forgotten Realms shows how it is supposed to work best, with all humans having a clearly defined regional language as well as speaking the trade tongue (Common). As for creature with an Int above 2, they should speak their regional language if anything, unless they interact with many cultures.

Unfortunately, the PH states that all creatures with Int above 2 automatically speak Common, even Celestial Ants. It is stupid in the extreme, and basically just makes every other language an exercise in the being speaking it wanting to use its native tongue as a code to stop people from speaking it, since it could have just used Common.

 

[unleashed]

Unfortunately, the PH states that all creatures with Int above 2 automatically speak Common, even Celestial Ants. It is stupid in the extreme, and basically just makes every other language an exercise in the being speaking it wanting to use its native tongue as a code to stop people from speaking it, since it could have just used Common.

Rule 0: The GM can change whatever they like for their game. So if you don't want everything speaking common, say they instead speak their regional language.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Rule 0: The GM can change whatever they like for their game. So if you don't want everything speaking common, say they instead speak their regional language.

Well duh. That's why I said I never use that rule To quote me:

I find it more fun and interesting that way. Plus I don't have the hideously annoying rules lawyers bugging me to force animals to instantaneously learn Common by virtue of having an Int above 2.