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<blockquote data-quote="Delemental" data-source="post: 1449431" data-attributes="member: 5203">Just this week, our party was investigating a string of creimes in a small town.&nbsp; My character (the wizard) and one of our clerics goes to talk to the dwarven stonemason in town.&nbsp; We're picked because both out characters have backgrounds in crafts and manual labor (I'm a carpenter, he's a blacksmith).&nbsp; In addition, the cleric worships the patrton diety of the dwarves, and his background is basically that he was raised by the church as an orphan, and his entire life has been spent around clergy and dwarves.So we head to the mason's house, and I mention to him that since my character speaks Dwarven, we won't have to worry about translation.&nbsp; See, I assume that his character will take the lead in the conversation due to his background.This is when the cleric's player looks at his character sheet and announces that he doesn't speak Dwarven.&nbsp; Abyssal?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Terran?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Celestial?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Dwarven?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; A cleric of the creator of the dwarves.&nbsp; A man whose entire life has been spent in the company of dwarves.&nbsp; Not a word of their native language.My character ended up handling the interview (not that we had to speak Dwarven, but that particular night the cleric's player was suffering from a severe case of wanderbrain, and so really didn't have the focus for it anyway).After we left, we went to talk to the (human) blacksmith.&nbsp; My comment to him on the way there; &quot;Now, you do speak Common, right?&quot;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(The cleric's player will be spending skill points to learn Dwarven at his next level.)*******************Ravenloft game, several years ago (2E):I way playing an elven wizard.&nbsp; Now, in Ravenloft most humans are fairly prejudiced against non-humans.&nbsp; So our party goes into this inn at the start of an adventure.&nbsp; The innkeeper looks at our party, fixes his gaze on me, and says &quot;We don't serve your kind here.&quot;My response?&nbsp; &quot;That's okay, I don't eat my kind.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Delemental, post: 1449431, member: 5203"] Just this week, our party was investigating a string of creimes in a small town. My character (the wizard) and one of our clerics goes to talk to the dwarven stonemason in town. We're picked because both out characters have backgrounds in crafts and manual labor (I'm a carpenter, he's a blacksmith). In addition, the cleric worships the patrton diety of the dwarves, and his background is basically that he was raised by the church as an orphan, and his entire life has been spent around clergy and dwarves. So we head to the mason's house, and I mention to him that since my character speaks Dwarven, we won't have to worry about translation. See, I assume that his character will take the lead in the conversation due to his background. This is when the cleric's player looks at his character sheet and announces that he doesn't speak Dwarven. Abyssal? Yes. Terran? Yes. Celestial? Yes. Dwarven? No. A cleric of the creator of the dwarves. A man whose entire life has been spent in the company of dwarves. Not a word of their native language. My character ended up handling the interview (not that we had to speak Dwarven, but that particular night the cleric's player was suffering from a severe case of wanderbrain, and so really didn't have the focus for it anyway). After we left, we went to talk to the (human) blacksmith. My comment to him on the way there; "Now, you do speak Common, right?" :) (The cleric's player will be spending skill points to learn Dwarven at his next level.) ******************* Ravenloft game, several years ago (2E): I way playing an elven wizard. Now, in Ravenloft most humans are fairly prejudiced against non-humans. So our party goes into this inn at the start of an adventure. The innkeeper looks at our party, fixes his gaze on me, and says "We don't serve your kind here." My response? "That's okay, I don't eat my kind." [/QUOTE]

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