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<blockquote data-quote="Drowbane" data-source="post: 3988163" data-attributes="member: 23396">There are entirely too many languages in D&amp;D.&nbsp; Why does every monster (or so it seems) need its own language? I like to trim the fat... some examples (Homebrew):Common: Does not exist.&nbsp; As with the above post regarding FR, this is much like &quot;chondathan&quot; and is known as Tallarnese.&nbsp; The Tallarn Empire covers a significant portion of the known world.&nbsp; Tallarn is also the name of one of the five surviving God-Kings from the Age of Man (I totally stole the concept of this nation from an old friend, Talath <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />).Primal: covers Terran, Auran, Aquan &amp; and Ignan... and any other &quot;elemental&quot; tongues.&nbsp; It might include other ancient/bizarre languages... such as Fey, Sylvan, etc.Celestial: virtually all outsiders share a common ancestry if you go back far enough, so celestial, infernal, and abyssal (daemon, slaad, etc) are actually one language with some major dialect/accent issues (demons speak it at a clipped pace and much more gutterally than Archons do, for example).Jotun: Northmen, dwarves, giants, orcs, goblinoids.Draconic (the Auld Tongue): dragons, scholars, magi, elves, kobolds, lizardmen, etc.Halfling: start with no known languages... but they are innately psionic and can speak with any sentient being that has a language... within 100ft.At this point I always come down to the &quot;half a dozen human tongues&quot; issue and wonder why we get so many... yet I'm willing to cut away so many other languages.&nbsp; Some sort of &quot;Tower of Babel&quot; explaination?&nbsp; Hell, I dunno.etc...edit: the whole snipping languages down concept... I got it from Force_User while I was in his group in S.D.&nbsp; Great storyteller-DM btw!re-edit: yeah, I'm not too good at the whole creativity thing... but I can yoink a great idea at the drop of a hat!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Drowbane, post: 3988163, member: 23396"] There are entirely too many languages in D&D. Why does every monster (or so it seems) need its own language? I like to trim the fat... some examples (Homebrew): [B]Common[/B]: Does not exist. As with the above post regarding FR, this is much like "chondathan" and is known as Tallarnese. The Tallarn Empire covers a significant portion of the known world. Tallarn is also the name of one of the five surviving God-Kings from the Age of Man (I totally stole the concept of this nation from an old friend, Talath :D). [B]Primal[/B]: covers Terran, Auran, Aquan & and Ignan... and any other "elemental" tongues. It might include other ancient/bizarre languages... such as Fey, Sylvan, etc. [B]Celestial[/B]: virtually all outsiders share a common ancestry if you go back far enough, so celestial, infernal, and abyssal (daemon, slaad, etc) are actually one language with some major dialect/accent issues (demons speak it at a clipped pace and much more gutterally than Archons do, for example). [B]Jotun[/B]: Northmen, dwarves, giants, orcs, goblinoids. [B]Draconic [/B] (the Auld Tongue): dragons, scholars, magi, elves, kobolds, lizardmen, etc. [B]Halfling[/B]: start with no known languages... but they are innately psionic and can speak with any sentient being that has a language... within 100ft. At this point I always come down to the "half a dozen human tongues" issue and wonder why we get so many... yet I'm willing to cut away so many other languages. Some sort of "Tower of Babel" explaination? Hell, I dunno. etc... edit: the whole snipping languages down concept... I got it from Force_User while I was in his group in S.D. Great storyteller-DM btw! re-edit: yeah, I'm not too good at the whole creativity thing... but I can yoink a great idea at the drop of a hat! [/QUOTE]

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