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Typically used with: Intellect.

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.

Difficulty

The difficulty 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

The GM might want to roll the Linguistics check is 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.