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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6744384" data-attributes="member: 22424">And we're back around full-circle, because it very often doesn't silo encounters, because you end up with:The bard intimidates to the orcs in Orcish.The bard negotiates terms with a summoned celestia in Celestial.The bard asks the elven lord's court for support in Elven.The bard chats up the barkeep for quests in Halfling.Because the character who is the face of the group is also the character who has invested in (or just been given by the system) knowledge of all those languages. Only it's even worse, because if it was all in Common then at least the ranger, cleric, thief, and paladin could interject in some of those encounters, instead of being totally excluded because they didn't choose the specific language.Now, your previous argument that a skilled DM would split the party (or any of your other examples) is right - if the skilled DM does that then you have indeed got a situation where each character gets to shine. But in the split party situation they still get that chance to shine even if every encounter uses Common.I just don't see what adding the different languages gives you that you don't get simply from having that skilled DM.</blockquote>