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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 1525993" data-attributes="member: 19130">"Explain in post"I use three levels of proficency in my games: fluent (as in the PHB), masterful, and transcendent.Fluency means you can speak it just fine, a masterful level of proficency means that you're particularly good at things within the language's "theme" - if you have mastered Abyssal and are using it in a torture session, you get a circumstance bonus, Mercane boosts trade negotiations, that sort of thing.  Transcendent proficiency allows you to alter reality through speech, in ways cognate with that language, like the BoVD's Dark Speech - transcendence in Abyssal means that you can create darkness or cause pain, that sort of thing.Mastery is a role-playing reward for players who use language effectively, or provoke a demonstration of the nature of a given language, and transcendence is basically a magical ability I give out like I would treasure, if the situation or character warrants it.Closely-related languages (generally, ones that use the same script) are treated as known one rank below the related language, although your actual ability in such related language isn't completely reflective of that - you may have transcendence in Infernal and know some really good Abyssal curses without actually being able to speak it.</blockquote>