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<blockquote data-quote="Aries_Omega" data-source="post: 3014765" data-attributes="member: 15693">Common is too commonIn my campaign world there is no &quot;common&quot;. Each human culture has it's own language. Granted it takes place in a &quot;western&quot; setting and even though the various human languages speak different languages they have one alphabet. But this alphabet means nothing unless you speak the language. This is like how in English, Spanish and say...French. They all use the same characters but c-a-t is cat in English but has no meaning in the other two. In Spanish it would be gato for example.Other races do not have it so hard though. I make a &quot;high elf&quot; make an Intelligence check to understand complex phrases said by a &quot;wild elf&quot; for example. Same language but different words for the same thing and so on. Kinda like a Californian speaking with a New Yorker...like what happened to me when I tried to get on a train going into the city and ticket booth woman was telling me the finer points of the city and that the next train departs to &quot;ron-konk-ama&quot; in 5 minutes. It took me about 5 minutes to understand anything about the city, yet alone about the train or what a &quot;ron-konk-ama&quot; was.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aries_Omega, post: 3014765, member: 15693"] [b]Common is too common[/b] In my campaign world there is no "common". Each human culture has it's own language. Granted it takes place in a "western" setting and even though the various human languages speak different languages they have one alphabet. But this alphabet means nothing unless you speak the language. This is like how in English, Spanish and say...French. They all use the same characters but c-a-t is cat in English but has no meaning in the other two. In Spanish it would be gato for example. Other races do not have it so hard though. I make a "high elf" make an Intelligence check to understand complex phrases said by a "wild elf" for example. Same language but different words for the same thing and so on. Kinda like a Californian speaking with a New Yorker...like what happened to me when I tried to get on a train going into the city and ticket booth woman was telling me the finer points of the city and that the next train departs to "ron-konk-ama" in 5 minutes. It took me about 5 minutes to understand anything about the city, yet alone about the train or what a "ron-konk-ama" was. [/QUOTE]

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