{"id":253,"date":"2020-08-04T14:23:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T14:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d20modern.gpconsult.dk\/?page_id=253"},"modified":"2020-08-04T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T14:25:20","slug":"speak-language","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/d20modern.gpconsult.dk\/?page_id=253","title":{"rendered":"Speak Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trained Only<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Speak Language skill doesn&#8217;t work like a standard skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A character automatically knows how to speak his or her native language; the character does not need ranks to do so.<\/li><li>Each additional language costs 1 rank. When a character adds a rank to Speak Language, he or she chooses a new language that he or she can speak.<\/li><li>A character never makes Speak Language checks. A character either knows how to speak and understand a specific language or doesn&#8217;t.<\/li><li>To be able to read and write a language that the character can speak, he or she must take the Read\/Write Language skill for the appropriate language.<\/li><li>A character can choose any language, modern or ancient. (See the list below for suggestions.) The GM might determine that a character can&#8217;t learn a specific language due to the circumstances of the campaign.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Language Groups<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There are thousands of languages to choose from when you buy ranks in Speak Language or Read\/Write Language. A few are listed here, sorted into their general language groups.<br>A language&#8217;s group doesn&#8217;t matter when you&#8217;re buying ranks in Speak Language or Read\/Write Language. Language groups are provided because they pertain to the Smart hero&#8217;s Linguist talent.<br>This list is by no means exhaustive &#8211; there are many more language groups, and most groups contain more languages than those listed here.<br><strong>Algic:<\/strong> Algonkin, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Shawnee.<br><strong>Armenian:<\/strong> Armenian.<br><strong>Athabascan:<\/strong> Apache, Chipewyan, Navaho.<br><strong>Attic:<\/strong> Ancient Greek*<em>, <\/em>Greek.<br><strong>Baltic:<\/strong> Latvian, Lithuanian.<br><strong>Celtic:<\/strong> Gaelic (Irish), Gaelic (Scots), Welsh.<br><strong>Chinese:<\/strong> Cantonese, Mandarin.<br><strong>Finno-Lappic:<\/strong> Estonian, Finnish, Lapp.<br><strong>Germanic:<\/strong> Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Yiddish.<br><strong>Hamo-Semitic:<\/strong> Coptic*, Middle Egyptian*.<br><strong>Indic<\/strong>: Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit*, Urdu.<br><strong>Iranian:<\/strong> Farsi, Pashto.<br><strong>Japanese:<\/strong> Japanese.<br><strong>Korean:<\/strong> Korean.<br><strong>Romance:<\/strong> French, Italian, Latin*, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish.<br><strong>Semitic:<\/strong> Akkadian (aka Babylonian*), Ancient Hebrew*, Arabic, Aramaic*, Hebrew.<br><strong>Slavic:<\/strong> Belorussian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Ukrainian.<br><strong>Tibeto-Burman:<\/strong> Burmese, Sherpa, Tibetan.<br><strong>Turkic:<\/strong> Azerbaijani, Turkish, Uzbek.<br><strong>Ugric:<\/strong> Hungarian (aka Magyar).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">* This is an ancient language. In the modern world it is spoken only by scholars, or in some cases by small populations in isolated corners of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trained Only The Speak Language skill doesn&#8217;t work like a standard skill. A character automatically knows how to speak his or her native language; the character does not need ranks to do so.Each additional language costs 1 rank. 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