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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 7251420" data-attributes="member: 6803643">As I don't have Xanathar's Guide to Everything, I can't give you a specific RAW on solitary woodsman in a tiny rural town and no connection to the outside world. That said, this is a ribbon feature based around organizations. A Rogue is a character that, despite being on their lonesome (definition of rogue), exists within a community of other rogues. Your example is an unclassed NPC character with a background like Outlander or Hermit, not a Scout, who is a part of an organization of Scouts who learned these languages. As for what I was speaking to, D&D 5e is about RAI, not RAW. It's a game of DM rulings, rather than PC-governed rules (unlike D&D 3.5e, Pathfinder, or D&D 4e). My statement above is a pretty standard extrapolation of the Thieves' Cant section of the Rogue class in the PHB. It's not a "this is awkward and needs a house-rule fix" issue; it's a "this is how the rule works at my table, given that Scout is a Roguish Archetype." I didn't change anything about the class feature. The DM is ALWAYS entitled to say that despite knowing Elven, you don't understand this dialect of Elven or the words in Elvish script make no sense to your Elf character. That's a classic D&D puzzle.I also am willing to bet that there will be a sidebar in Xanathar's Guide about how Thieves' Cant works for Scouts, detailing much of what I said above. I think there's at least a 50% chance of there being one, since people like you are confused. But it doesn't take too much thinking, from a PC perspective or a DM perspective.</blockquote>

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