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<blockquote data-quote="StalkingBlue" data-source="post: 1369287" data-attributes="member: 645">In Germany, I played and GMed in German (my native language).&nbsp; We used the English books and English game terms in one group, but German books, terms and metric distances in another.&nbsp; That could be a bit confusing for me because the German translation isn't always very close to the original, nor necessarily very appealing.&nbsp; Also, the German translation converts distances to metric - and they did it thoroughly converting 10 feet to 3 metres.&nbsp; So when you use the German rules, you get movement rates of 9 metres (30'), 6 metres (20') and (oh joy) 4.5 metres (15').&nbsp; In some ways it's a relief to be in the UK now where at least everyone uses the same set of books and the same system of defining distances ...&nbsp; <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" />&nbsp; Gaming in English is great fun for me.&nbsp; Though I've started running a game here recently and I tend to find myself hanging in a word-less vacuum between languages at the worst moments - especially when I want to convey a mood or evoke an image.&nbsp; I don't have that problem when I'm a player and I don't seem to have it anywhere else in my life, whether in business or writing or whatever.&nbsp; Somehow the fact that I've always GMed in German before proves a stumbling block, dunno why.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="StalkingBlue, post: 1369287, member: 645"] In Germany, I played and GMed in German (my native language). We used the English books and English game terms in one group, but German books, terms and metric distances in another. That could be a bit confusing for me because the German translation isn't always very close to the original, nor necessarily very appealing. Also, the German translation converts distances to metric - and they did it thoroughly converting 10 feet to 3 metres. So when you use the German rules, you get movement rates of 9 metres (30'), 6 metres (20') and (oh joy) 4.5 metres (15'). In some ways it's a relief to be in the UK now where at least everyone uses the same set of books and the same system of defining distances ... :D Gaming in English is great fun for me. Though I've started running a game here recently and I tend to find myself hanging in a word-less vacuum between languages at the worst moments - especially when I want to convey a mood or evoke an image. I don't have that problem when I'm a player and I don't seem to have it anywhere else in my life, whether in business or writing or whatever. Somehow the fact that I've always GMed in German before proves a stumbling block, dunno why. [/QUOTE]

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