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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 656074" data-attributes="member: 1328">Although a frenchie, I prefer to keep my d20 collection exclusively in English. D&D, with its emphasis on rules and its component approach, is the only RPG for which I do that. Other non-French games I own, like the White Wolf ones, I don't mind mixing languages. Mainly because most of the game is fluff, background, and setting description, whereas D&D is about rules, rules, rules and rules, and YOU THE DM provide the real background.It's a pain to figure out, with a mixed library, what a feat or spell name refers to cross-language. Especially given the main translator for the French version of D&D is a bit... shall we say... fantasist (souplesse du serpent for mobility, for example !).However, these world builder books are all about background. Description. That's why I would probably be interested were they available in French (and translated by someone serious). Thing like that...... in particular, are a pet interest of mine. I just love etymology and words. People would be wiser, I think, if they know more vocabulary, and knew the history and personality of the words they use. First, they'll be less vulgar, and more importantly, language is what structure thought. Etymology give insights in philosophy and psychology. Oh, I'm ranting again, don't pay attention.If I were rich, I would get it in English too. And probably in German as well. It's enlightening. I especially like to see the patterns, the exchanges of words... Who knows that "flirt" comes from the French "fleurette" (little flower, because "conter fleurette" (speaking about flowers) was an expression for "trying to seduce") ?</blockquote>

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