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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peskara" data-source="post: 1526385" data-attributes="member: 5241">We use homebrew languages. I voted that there is moderate emphasis on them, but I'm not really sure what moderate is in comparison to.The languages we use include some homebrew variations on some of the PHB languages like the elemental tongues, fiendish (Pria Kumureth) and celestial (Pria Illyriel and I've likely spelled both of those wrong). In our current campaign area there are two dialects of Common (other, distant continents have other forms of common based on different sources), which developed from the language used by slaves in the dawn ages of the world when slavery was much more common.Of course there are Elvish and Dwarvish. Halflings speak heir own, sometimes incomprehensible, dialect of common. Gnomish is a dialect of Dwarvish, which is based on 33 true runes. There are some dead languages of extinct cultures which scholars and historians know. There's Vedan, which is the language of magic and wizards and is sort of in the state that Latin is today only not really dead. Different humanoids have their own languages. Orcs, who were slaves of the elves, developed their own language. Gnolls have their own language which can be learned by the "faceless" races (as they call those lacking snouts) but it is difficult to pronounce and may not have a written version. Goblinoids speak a degenerate dialect of elvish. Dark elves (Morafir) have a similar language to Elvish, but have consciously steered their language development away from their cousins, it's probably turned out to be similar to the way the black tongue of Mordor is related to the Elvish of Middle Earth.Our DM has come up with a few important words in just about any language a PC knows (even the dead ones), and some have larger glossaries than others as he's made a conscious effort to come up with Orcish, Elvish, Dwarvish and Drakhan (a rare and lawful good race of creatures similar in appearance to Dragonlance's draconians) since we deal with those most often. For the less common languages, he comes up with words and phrases as they are needed or as they occur to him.</blockquote>

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