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<blockquote data-quote="Silverglass" data-source="post: 1191702" data-attributes="member: 14071">Getting rid of &quot;Common&quot; altogether is a move that may lead to a lot of frustration among players and is one that I would not generally recommend.However you can work with the definition of what is &quot;Common&quot; to make it more logical. Perhaps it is a merchants language, or a derivation of Draconic, or the language of a long vanished world-spanning empire or a root language from which many other languages developed. All of those make sense and would give you a single language that can be used to comunicate simple concepts, but perhaps not complicated ones.Also there is nothing to say that every single person in the world does speak this common language, yes it may be something that all adventures know but there is no reason isolated races or communities would have it on their automatic languages list. This does allow times when the PCs have problems communicating without making it overshadow every session. So you have the best of both worlds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silverglass, post: 1191702, member: 14071"] Getting rid of "Common" altogether is a move that may lead to a lot of frustration among players and is one that I would not generally recommend. However you can work with the definition of what is "Common" to make it more logical. Perhaps it is a merchants language, or a derivation of Draconic, or the language of a long vanished world-spanning empire or a root language from which many other languages developed. All of those make sense and would give you a single language that can be used to comunicate simple concepts, but perhaps not complicated ones. Also there is nothing to say that every single person in the world does speak this common language, yes it may be something that all adventures know but there is no reason isolated races or communities would have it on their automatic languages list. This does allow times when the PCs have problems communicating without making it overshadow every session. So you have the best of both worlds. [/QUOTE]

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