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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 9607698" data-attributes="member: 1210">This is a topic near and dear to my heart, but I have to leave in a few minutes. I'll do a quick copy and paste of some of my language rules; but due to formatting issues I will have to save the list of what languages are in what category, and the levels of similarity that they have, for after I come home later.LANGUAGES IN CYDRALanguages can be broken down into several (fairly arbitrary) categories.Common Tongues: These are tongues that are widely spoken. Everyone speaks a common tongue, but what language that is depends on where you are. In most places where the campaign takes place, the “Common” that pcs speak is Imperial.Ordinary Languages: These are languages that people are broadly familiar with and have heard of. It's not uncommon to find speakers of these languages.Exotic Languages: These are languages that aren't widely spoken, and that many people have probably never heard or, in some cases, even heard of.Extinct Languages: These are languages that have no surviving native speakers. Either the language has evolved into new forms or the people speaking it have died out.LEARNING A LANGUAGESimilarity: Similarity makes it easier to learn a new language. It is a discount in the time required (e.g. if you speak Imperial and you wish to learn Low Forinthian, you take only 200 days instead of 250 to reach full proficiency).A creature that speaks a language with a similarity of 75% or higher is half-trained in that language.Immersion: Being immersed in a language, where nobody around you is speaking any other language for the vast majority of the time, increasing the speed at which one gains proficiency in a language. Each day in such conditions counts as 2 days towards proficiency without spending downtime on training. A creature that actively trains under such conditions can instead count each day as 5.Half Trained: Once a creature has reached the halfway point in learning a language, it can have a basic, but not complex, conversation with a speaker of that language using a combination of words, gestures, and pidgin.</blockquote>

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