Translate

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.

Retry

Linguistics attempts cannot be retried without spending a fate point.