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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 2954275" data-attributes="member: 9045">*chuckles*  No, nothing so complex.  Between the fact that I didn't want to create an entire full rulesystem within the guise of a skill (although Hero 4th Ed. did a pretty good job of outlining the concept you're asking about, but for modern Earth languages), plus the fact that as a Pick n' Mix I only had a page or so to work with, it's reasonably simple.The skill itself only deals with the skill and it's ranks.  It doesn't talk about the languages themselves, but how the skill deals with them.  Now, I'm all for a flexible DM, and a flexible DM could (and if the group wants it, damned-well should) give some kind of synergy bonus and/or decipher script chance or something for closely related languages, but such concepts were beyond the scope of the Pick n' Mix.  It's an interesting question, and I may further expand the skill along these lines by means of sidebar'ed suggestions if/when the skill crops up elsewhere.</blockquote>