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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 2203656" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>In the shared DM campaign I'm currently running there is common but only PH races automatically know it, others know their racial languages as written in MM and other sourcebooks. So orcs speak orcish and goblins speak goblin.</p><p></p><p>We created Olde tongue out of whole cloth for a paladin PC at his creation and have weaved it a ton into the campaign as the language of the olde gods and in a lot of stuff in the ancient banewarrens from the time period when it was the world's common tongue.</p><p></p><p>Mongolic is another dead language on the world only known by some ancient dead (and my plane hopping character who knew it from another earth type world before he converted to 3e).</p><p></p><p>The paladin also used a lot of draconic which tied into his amnesia past as an evil warlord tied to the evil dragon cult we overthrew.</p><p></p><p>Abyssal I've had a lot of fun with in Demon god's Fane changing lots of the written messages there into olde tongue or abyssal. And I've been using google language translation for all in game abyssal references with German doing well for abyssal, it has a cool ring to it that feels right as a non-german speaker. The PC who picked up abyssal gets the translation back through google and it comes up a bit wierd translated twice but he gets the gist. Which is cool for a picked up language.</p><p></p><p>Celestial is used by 3/4 of the party so they almost have a secret language in front of NPCs when they want, excepting the dwarf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 2203656, member: 2209"] In the shared DM campaign I'm currently running there is common but only PH races automatically know it, others know their racial languages as written in MM and other sourcebooks. So orcs speak orcish and goblins speak goblin. We created Olde tongue out of whole cloth for a paladin PC at his creation and have weaved it a ton into the campaign as the language of the olde gods and in a lot of stuff in the ancient banewarrens from the time period when it was the world's common tongue. Mongolic is another dead language on the world only known by some ancient dead (and my plane hopping character who knew it from another earth type world before he converted to 3e). The paladin also used a lot of draconic which tied into his amnesia past as an evil warlord tied to the evil dragon cult we overthrew. Abyssal I've had a lot of fun with in Demon god's Fane changing lots of the written messages there into olde tongue or abyssal. And I've been using google language translation for all in game abyssal references with German doing well for abyssal, it has a cool ring to it that feels right as a non-german speaker. The PC who picked up abyssal gets the translation back through google and it comes up a bit wierd translated twice but he gets the gist. Which is cool for a picked up language. Celestial is used by 3/4 of the party so they almost have a secret language in front of NPCs when they want, excepting the dwarf. [/QUOTE]
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