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<blockquote data-quote="Cristian Andreu" data-source="post: 7683263" data-attributes="member: 23822">I think you are overstating the issue of translation consistency in Castilian. Yes, there are instances of different terms used, such as how they have &quot;Dragones y Mazmorras&quot; in the Peninsula and we have &quot;Calabozos y Dragones&quot; here in Latin America. But for the most part, this has rarely proven to be a significant issue; other than the infamous &quot;Arco-X&quot; first print of the AD&amp;D 2e translation (which is now so hard to find it's actually considered a collector's item, which I've seen on sale for over 500 USD), D&amp;D books in Castilian work perfectly fine. I've been playing with both English and Castilian books for the past 20 years and I've never stumbled upon a problem that goes beyond &quot;This term here is slightly different&quot;.Hit Points have always been &quot;Puntos de Golpe&quot;; Hit Dice have always been &quot;Dados de Golpe&quot;; AC has always been &quot;Categoría de Armadura&quot;; the Rogue has gone through &quot;Ladrón&quot;, &quot;Bribón&quot;, and then back to &quot;Ladrón&quot; but that's mostly because it also changed names in the original English books. That's how it was with Ediciones Zinco back in AD&amp;D, and it's been used by Devir in both 3e and 4e. For some reason it changes some terms with Pathfinder where it's &quot;Clase de Armadura&quot; rather than &quot;Categoría&quot; and &quot;Pícaro&quot; rather than &quot;Ladrón&quot;, but even in those cases the differences are pretty inconsequential, especially since we consider the terms are well-defined and consistent within their respective rules systems.With every language we will encounter that there are many ways of translating a term. Yes, Castilian is characterised for being a particularly florid tongue, extremely poetic and effusive, which is why it's great for expressing complex thoughts and emotions, yet somewhat clumsy at explaining technical information and bad at term agglutination; a science book always needs more pages in Castilian than it does in English, and names like Stonebellow Thunderingforge are very hard to pull off in the Tongue of Cervantes. But the fact you could technically translate a term like Feats into Dotes/Cualidades/Dones/Aptitudes/Hazaña/Proeza is not a thing specific to our language, but rather a standard phenomenon of translation. That's why the more precise term for what is done with these works is not really &quot;translation&quot;, but rather &quot;interpretation&quot;, since it needs to take a lot more than just literal meaning into consideration.Besides, a Castilian version of the game, even if it was poorly translated, would be better than having no translation at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cristian Andreu, post: 7683263, member: 23822"] I think you are overstating the issue of translation consistency in Castilian. Yes, there are instances of different terms used, such as how they have [I]"Dragones y Mazmorras"[/I] in the Peninsula and we have [I]"Calabozos y Dragones"[/I] here in Latin America. But for the most part, this has rarely proven to be a significant issue; other than the infamous [I]"Arco-X"[/I] first print of the AD&D 2e translation (which is now so hard to find it's actually considered a collector's item, which I've seen on sale for over 500 USD), D&D books in Castilian work perfectly fine. I've been playing with both English and Castilian books for the past 20 years and I've never stumbled upon a problem that goes beyond [I]"This term here is slightly different"[/I]. Hit Points have always been [I]"Puntos de Golpe"[/I]; Hit Dice have always been [I]"Dados de Golpe"[/I]; AC has always been [I]"Categoría de Armadura"[/I]; the Rogue has gone through "Ladrón", "Bribón", and then back to "Ladrón" but that's mostly because it also changed names in the original English books. That's how it was with Ediciones Zinco back in AD&D, and it's been used by Devir in both 3e and 4e. For some reason it changes some terms with Pathfinder where it's "Clase de Armadura" rather than "Categoría" and "Pícaro" rather than "Ladrón", but even in those cases the differences are pretty inconsequential, especially since we consider the terms are well-defined and consistent within their respective rules systems. With every language we will encounter that there are many ways of translating a term. Yes, Castilian is characterised for being a particularly florid tongue, extremely poetic and effusive, which is why it's great for expressing complex thoughts and emotions, yet somewhat clumsy at explaining technical information and bad at term agglutination; a science book always needs more pages in Castilian than it does in English, and names like Stonebellow Thunderingforge are very hard to pull off in the Tongue of Cervantes. But the fact you could technically translate a term like Feats into Dotes/Cualidades/Dones/Aptitudes/Hazaña/Proeza is not a thing specific to our language, but rather a standard phenomenon of translation. That's why the more precise term for what is done with these works is not really "translation", but rather "interpretation", since it needs to take a lot more than just literal meaning into consideration. Besides, a Castilian version of the game, even if it was poorly translated, would be better than having no translation at all. [/QUOTE]

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