Alternative language learning
Hi all,
I recently had some thoughts about the Speak Language skill. I felt that it seemed like a potential sink for skill points, and is obviously limited to specific class' in-class lists. It seemed a little odd to me as well, that certain people can only learn so many languages, despite their potential skillset.
So, what I was thinking, kinda inspired by Pathfinder's "Linguistics" skill, that the Speak Language skill gets scrapped altogether and is instead lumped into two existing skills. Diplomacy and Decipher Script.
Diplomacy is being able to communicate with people, influencing their attitude towards you. Surely spoken language skills are needed here? With my proposed alteration to the skill, every 2 ranks invested in Diplomacy allows a character the ability to speak another language, and understand someone else speaking that language.
Decipher Script allows a character to crack codes, identify magical texts and similar acts of cryptography. I kinda feel there's not much point if you don't then understand other languages. Much like my alteration for Diplomacy, every 2 ranks in Decipher Script grants a character another language that they can understand in written form, but not necessarily speak fluently or conversationally.
Obviously, this is just idea pitching. Does anyone have any suggestions for alterations to the above, or have similar ideas of their own?
I recently had some thoughts about the Speak Language skill. I felt that it seemed like a potential sink for skill points, and is obviously limited to specific class' in-class lists. It seemed a little odd to me as well, that certain people can only learn so many languages, despite their potential skillset.
So, what I was thinking, kinda inspired by Pathfinder's "Linguistics" skill, that the Speak Language skill gets scrapped altogether and is instead lumped into two existing skills. Diplomacy and Decipher Script.
Diplomacy is being able to communicate with people, influencing their attitude towards you. Surely spoken language skills are needed here? With my proposed alteration to the skill, every 2 ranks invested in Diplomacy allows a character the ability to speak another language, and understand someone else speaking that language.
Decipher Script allows a character to crack codes, identify magical texts and similar acts of cryptography. I kinda feel there's not much point if you don't then understand other languages. Much like my alteration for Diplomacy, every 2 ranks in Decipher Script grants a character another language that they can understand in written form, but not necessarily speak fluently or conversationally.
Obviously, this is just idea pitching. Does anyone have any suggestions for alterations to the above, or have similar ideas of their own?