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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4948006" data-attributes="member: 22424">Well, if language is just a codified means of transferring information, then a cipher can be considered to translate that information from one language to another, albeit a custom language that is not widely understood. Certainly, there's an argument for that applying to simple ciphers (the Caesar cipher, for example, merely translates into a language of all-new words - the grammar even remains the same).Of course, this is perhaps less true of more complex codes. But would a fantasy world have an equivalent of the Enigma cipher? (Or, conversely, would they not have spells/rituals developed precisely to break such codes?)(Hmm... I think that gives me the seed for that Eberron one-shot I was wanting to run...)I'm just thinking out loud of course (or it's message board equivalent). I think the answer to all of the above is &quot;that would be a DM call&quot;... and that means you go with whatever makes for the most fun. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 4948006, member: 22424"] Well, if language is just a codified means of transferring information, then a cipher can be considered to translate that information from one language to another, albeit a custom language that is not widely understood. Certainly, there's an argument for that applying to simple ciphers (the Caesar cipher, for example, merely translates into a language of all-new words - the grammar even remains the same). Of course, this is perhaps less true of more complex codes. But would a fantasy world have an equivalent of the Enigma cipher? (Or, conversely, would they not have spells/rituals developed precisely to break such codes?) (Hmm... I think that gives me the seed for that Eberron one-shot I was wanting to run...) I'm just thinking out loud of course (or it's message board equivalent). I think the answer to all of the above is "that would be a DM call"... and that means you go with whatever makes for the most fun. :) [/QUOTE]

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