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<blockquote data-quote="hafrogman" data-source="post: 2225736" data-attributes="member: 8858">Common:The common tongue is ubiquitous, badly named and so mind bogglingly simple that even a half-orc with an intelligence of 3 can use it to communicate.&nbsp; The practical upshot of it's existence is that any PC can instantly understand anything said to him or her by any other PC or any member of countless other races.&nbsp; It is such an astounding coincidence that any single language could evolve that would be spoken by every single dwarf, elf, gnome, halfling, half-elf, half-orc and human that many adventurers claim it as the final clinching proof of the existence of the gods.The arguement goes as follows:&quot;I refuse to worship the gods&quot;, says the athiest, &quot;Because I cannot know that they exist.&quot;&quot;But,&quot; says the cleric, &quot;What about the common tongue?&nbsp; It's a dead give away, isn't it?&quot;&quot;Oh dear.&quot; says the athiest, &quot;I hadn't thought of that.&quot; and promptly gets smited (smitten?) by an angry diety.&quot;Oh, that was easy.&quot; says the cleric who goes on to prove that harm is broken and gets nerfed in the next edition.&nbsp;Meanwhile, the poor common tounge, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different adventurers has caused more and bloodier conflicts than any thing else in the dungeon.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hafrogman, post: 2225736, member: 8858"] Common: The common tongue is ubiquitous, badly named and so mind bogglingly simple that even a half-orc with an intelligence of 3 can use it to communicate. The practical upshot of it's existence is that any PC can instantly understand anything said to him or her by any other PC or any member of countless other races. It is such an astounding coincidence that any single language could evolve that would be spoken by every single dwarf, elf, gnome, halfling, half-elf, half-orc and human that many adventurers claim it as the final clinching proof of the existence of the gods. The arguement goes as follows: "I refuse to worship the gods", says the athiest, "Because I cannot know that they exist." "But," says the cleric, "What about the common tongue? It's a dead give away, isn't it?" "Oh dear." says the athiest, "I hadn't thought of that." and promptly gets smited (smitten?) by an angry diety. "Oh, that was easy." says the cleric who goes on to prove that harm is broken and gets nerfed in the next edition. Meanwhile, the poor common tounge, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different adventurers has caused more and bloodier conflicts than any thing else in the dungeon. [/QUOTE]

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