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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9609035" data-attributes="member: 29398">To the bolded: is that in fact the case?If yes, then you're quite right: the languages used aren't going to change much across the campaign area.&nbsp; Dwarvish here will be very close to Dwarvish there, &quot;Goblin&quot; here will be much alike &quot;Goblin&quot; there, and so on including the local Human tongue and Common.But I'm not sure the bolded is necessarily the case for a great many campaigns that get beyond about 5th level or so and start to do any significant travelling (which IME it's almost guaranteed that they will).&nbsp; If we look at modern Europe as an example, in most places if you go 200 miles in any direction the people will be speaking a different language.&nbsp; The same would have been true in pre-colonial British Columbia; there's still well over 30 (google says 35) different First Nations languages/dialects actively in use in BC today, I've no idea how many more have died out since colonization but the same principle would be true in any case: go 200 miles and you're in a different language zone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9609035, member: 29398"] To the bolded: is that in fact the case? If yes, then you're quite right: the languages used aren't going to change much across the campaign area. Dwarvish here will be very close to Dwarvish there, "Goblin" here will be much alike "Goblin" there, and so on including the local Human tongue and Common. But I'm not sure the bolded is necessarily the case for a great many campaigns that get beyond about 5th level or so and start to do any significant travelling (which IME it's almost guaranteed that they will). If we look at modern Europe as an example, in most places if you go 200 miles in any direction the people will be speaking a different language. The same would have been true in pre-colonial British Columbia; there's still well over 30 (google says 35) different First Nations languages/dialects actively in use in BC today, I've no idea how many more have died out since colonization but the same principle would be true in any case: go 200 miles and you're in a different language zone. [/QUOTE]

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