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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8802386" data-attributes="member: 11760">This goes back to being a DM problem, rather than a game design problem.Things like having a language should be a bonus in an encounter. You can beat the goblins in a fair fight, but you can get tactical knowledge as players, if someone speaks goblin.You can get your way through the tomb and recover the treasure even if you don't under the inscriptions on the walls, but you can get advantages against trap saving throws if someone is able to translate them.Locking away information in an RPG with only a single pass/fail solution is bad design, full stop. But that's not the fault of WotC if a DM does that.</blockquote>