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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 9608884" data-attributes="member: 6804070">YEa, but that's one of the great things about D&D, you can make your own rules and content. This predilection to only value rules and content from WotC is just so strange to e. Especially on ENWorld where we share so much custom content.Dudette you totally missing everything important. Let's start with the at least 3 other examples already provided in this thread. The least of which was 1 page for just the languages table. And the other person who said they would expect their version to be 5 pages. So sure, 20 pages is certainly too much, but 800 words is probably not enough. But this actually isn't the important part.As for your publishing example, that shows that publishing content for WotC is not simple and straight forward. It shows that there are many more people, and costs involved, than just paying 25 cents per word. And my points that it's not about the words, but the opportunity cost. Publishing anything about one things means they don't publish something else.And no, I know very little about WotC's publishing process. But I do know my own publishing process as I've published multiple products over the years, most of the D&D related. It's never as simple as you made it sound initially. You process outline shows that.You are completely ignoring my other points that are even more important than the size or process. First, you admit this would only be used by a small number of folks. Not that you need me to support your idea, but if you want me to you're going to have to show my why it's a good business decision for WotC to spend resources on it.(Edit: and you completely ignored my whole section on Comprehend Languages and what it does to a detailed language system.)I would also like to know, if a detailed language system is so important to world building and D&D, then why don't you publish your own version of it? There are several folks here who agree with you and perhaps might even collaborate in developing such. And since you believe publishing is so easy, you can publish it yourself and make a ton of money since it's so important to D&D that surely you will sell a million copies.And you think a detailed language system would be more popular than character options? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't every survey done here on ENWorld or by WotC point to more character options always being one of the top wants?I stand by my point, adding a detailed language system would be a bad business decision for WotC to spend any words on. But it's a great opportunity for homebrew. And even a good opportunity to publish on the DMsGuild.Thanks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> As I've said, I think this is a great topic for people to write their own content and always encourage people to share!</blockquote>

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