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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9607829" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Oh, no... you misunderstand me:I don't want to make it impossible to communicate. Just slightly more difficult without the right languages -or- a broad linguistic understanding that lacks the nuance of local languages...Instead of being utterly handwaved as &quot;Everyone speaks common and no languages actually matter 'til you find the puzzle in a language that I forgot to check to see if any of you read and now the puzzle is impossible and we're going to sit here for three hours of trial and error unless I get so frustrated I just give you the answer.&quot;The intent is not to perfectly mimic real world languages. No more than the intent is to bring a sword to the table to hit your DM with any time you swing on an orc.Just to be more realistic than &quot;Common&quot; and a bunch of fantasy race languages that grow every time someone makes a new player race for some splatbook.Technically Black Speech is also an Elven tongue, since it was created, specifically, to be used by Orcs who are, themselves, twisted elves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 9607829, member: 6796468"] Oh, no... you misunderstand me: I don't want to make it impossible to communicate. Just slightly more difficult without the right languages -or- a broad linguistic understanding that lacks the nuance of local languages... Instead of being utterly handwaved as "Everyone speaks common and no languages actually matter 'til you find the puzzle in a language that I forgot to check to see if any of you read and now the puzzle is impossible and we're going to sit here for three hours of trial and error unless I get so frustrated I just give you the answer." The intent is not to perfectly mimic real world languages. No more than the intent is to bring a sword to the table to hit your DM with any time you swing on an orc. Just to be more realistic than "Common" and a bunch of fantasy race languages that grow every time someone makes a new player race for some splatbook. Technically Black Speech is also an Elven tongue, since it was created, specifically, to be used by Orcs who are, themselves, twisted elves. [/QUOTE]

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