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<blockquote data-quote="Ondath" data-source="post: 8742877" data-attributes="member: 7031770">Well, the 2014 PHB kinda does that as it lists Realms ethnicities for human names... But I think the 2024 PHB will move away from that. Someone made a comment about this phenomenon a few days ago: games like Pathfinder can have an assumed setting in their core rules, but D&amp;D can't because it is too popular. The closest thing we had was 4E's Nentir Vale, and I think that was heavily disliked for requiring all other settings in that edition to be retrofitted to Nentir Vale's aesthetic choices (Eberron getting a Feywild and Shadowfell, Realms having a pointless apocalypse to justify all red tieflings and AEDU casting etc.).As for the need for langage for game moments, I'm not against the idea. But I don't think we need mechanical rules that say every player needs to know X languages from the Standard Languages list to achieve that. We'd be better off with leaving languages to fluff, to be determined by the setting's worldbuilding and what the table thinks is appropriate for each character to know. I think that'd be better for the simulationist goal of language use. And Common/Allspeak/Regional Lingua Franca would be the only mechanical standard language whose point is convenience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ondath, post: 8742877, member: 7031770"] Well, the 2014 PHB kinda does that as it lists Realms ethnicities for human names... But I think the 2024 PHB will move away from that. Someone made a comment about this phenomenon a few days ago: games like Pathfinder can have an assumed setting in their core rules, but D&D can't because it is too popular. The closest thing we had was 4E's Nentir Vale, and I think that was heavily disliked for requiring all other settings in that edition to be retrofitted to Nentir Vale's aesthetic choices (Eberron getting a Feywild and Shadowfell, Realms having a pointless apocalypse to justify all red tieflings and AEDU casting etc.). As for the need for langage for game moments, I'm not against the idea. But I don't think we need mechanical rules that say every player needs to know X languages from the Standard Languages list to achieve that. We'd be better off with leaving languages to fluff, to be determined by the setting's worldbuilding and what the table thinks is appropriate for each character to know. I think that'd be better for the simulationist goal of language use. And Common/Allspeak/Regional Lingua Franca would be the only mechanical standard language whose point is convenience. [/QUOTE]

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