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<blockquote data-quote="orsal" data-source="post: 3694001" data-attributes="member: 16016">I wish, instead of &quot;Common&quot;, they had called the language &quot;Human&quot;. It's the native language of humans, after all. It's also the lingua franca, because humans are the principal traders and travellers. Not everyone speaks Human, but pretty much anyone who travels outside their own racial/cultural homeland will, because it's the only language you can count on getting by with almost anywhere.I've sketched out a number of campaign worlds, most of which I've never developed to the point of playability, and one thing that varies a lot from world to world is how wide an area this lingua franca will cover. In some of my worlds, it's the language of a particular culture, but the one where the PCs start -- there's enough diversity among the human cultures that not even they all speak the same language. If the PCs travel far enough they may come to a region with a different lingua franca.I've also toyed with the idea of a trade language that's distinct from the human racial language, but that's departing from RAW.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="orsal, post: 3694001, member: 16016"] I wish, instead of "Common", they had called the language "Human". It's the native language of humans, after all. It's also the lingua franca, because humans are the principal traders and travellers. Not everyone speaks Human, but pretty much anyone who travels outside their own racial/cultural homeland will, because it's the only language you can count on getting by with almost anywhere. I've sketched out a number of campaign worlds, most of which I've never developed to the point of playability, and one thing that varies a lot from world to world is how wide an area this lingua franca will cover. In some of my worlds, it's the language of a particular culture, but the one where the PCs start -- there's enough diversity among the human cultures that not even they all speak the same language. If the PCs travel far enough they may come to a region with a different lingua franca. I've also toyed with the idea of a trade language that's distinct from the human racial language, but that's departing from RAW. [/QUOTE]

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