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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 1193703" data-attributes="member: 771">I have no common tongue in my campaign and it has caused zero problems, and zero complaints.  Everyone speaks Tuornilian, the language in the kingdom where the campaign is based.  A few also speak Draconic or Melendotian (the language of the major human empire bordering Tuornil), and a couple of people speak a racial tongue or some other random language that no one else does.  The party has plans to head to Melendos when they finish wrapping up a few things locally, so a few more people are devoting points to Melendotian in preparation for that.  The rest plan to make it by on using their friends to translate.Also, we use a skill based language system similar to the Kalamar variant, but more generous.  Everyone gets one native tongue at rank 3 at no cost.  They also get Int bonus (x2) in language points at character creation and can spend skill points when those run out.  Costs are as follows:1 rank - "please, thank you, where's the bathroom?"2 ranks - speak slowly with heavy accent3 ranks - fluent (although still accented if not a native speaker)4 + increased eloquence, loss of accent if non-native plus literacy costs 1 point to acquire per language, and is otherwise assumed to be at the same level of proficiency as speaking.  Sometimes I'll waive the literacy cost for a language which is closely related to one already spoken and which shares the same alphabet.</blockquote>

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