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These are the examples of difficulty for evoking ideas and intents across language barriers.
 
These are the examples of difficulty for evoking ideas and intents across language barriers.

Revision as of 19:16, 9 January 2011

Typically used with: Insight.

In short: read, write, and speak. For all you cunning linguists out there, the Linguistics skill brings you what you enjoy most: figuring out all them funny words! Linguistics can be used to get the gist of writing or speech that you otherwise don't understand. It is also used to communicate with beings who don't speak or understand your language.

When you buy a rank in Linguistics, your character also gets the added bonus of learning to speak, read, and write in a new language. Consult the information about your campaign setting or your GM for a list of languages available to you.

Difficulty

The difficulty for gaining information should be determined on a situational basis by the GM. Below are a few examples:

Example DL
A conversation or writing from recent years 20
A several hundred year old tablet 25
Ancient text in a forgotten alphabet 30
Conversation is muffled or text is slightly illegible (smeared, worn) +5


These are the examples of difficulty for evoking ideas and intents across language barriers.

Example DL
Audience speaks or writes in a language similar to your own (Often geographical differences) 10
Audience speaks and writes with vastly different characters and patterns than your own (Often racial differences) 20
Audience has little to nothing in common with how you communicate (primitive and emotive grunting, exclusively written or signed language, etc.) 30
Intended audience is hard of hearing +5

The GM might want to roll the Linguistics check in secret so the player isn't sure what the character interpreted is correct or not.

Time

Translating a full page of text generally takes 1–2 minutes. Communicating without a common language depends on the complexity of what you are trying to say. Plus, some people you just can't get through to.