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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sodalis" data-source="post: 232862" data-attributes="member: 1791">yes- but the reason why most DMs write prophecies in a aged and lost language is so that the PCs will have to go through great lengths to get them deciphered.  Nit just walk up to Wizards'R'Us and have it deciphered for 100 GP.  whta's teh fun in that...And after they are able to read it- it is another story to understand it...An example that comes to mind is MIB when the Archalians shot at earth and gave them the ultimatum- they had to spend some time to translate it, and when they did, they wasted a lot of time- and so had only minutes to retrieve the GALAXY.  Which meant they had to rush to Queens.this is fun for the DM to tell the players theyhave a wek to do somethign so they take their time- only to realize that the task is harder than they imagined: like deliver this to the mayor- thinking the town mayor- but actually, the mayor is a man that lives on top of Mt Unclimbable...or the other way around:like deliver this Fargo...where fargo was the guy sitting across the hall...but you didnt knwo that...<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    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>