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- July 2, 2014 at 2:54 am #151375AnonymousInactive
Ok, let’s take a human character from Almeric with a Logic of 5 and 1 rank in Linguistics. Here’s how I understand the clarified rules.
Step 1. Human, so ‘Native Nation’. We’ll say he’s from Morotavia so he gains Milandisian. But because it’s ‘Native Nation’ I’ll get 2 in step 2.
Step 2. Pick one or in this case 2 languages. There are only 2 for Almeric, so he gains Low Coryani as well. There are no other languages, so while he could have picked up more, he only gets the 1. Ok. Current languages: Milandisian, Low Coryani.
Step 3. Add languages equal to passive logic. So, I pick 3 more languages. I’ve already got all of my starting nation’s so we’ll add Myrantian, Ssethric and Altherian.
Step 4. I’ve got 1 rank in linguistics, so 1 extra language, call it Udor for a total of 6.
If the character was from the Hinterlands where there are 4 starting languages he’d end up with a total of 7 languages and if he’d started in the Coryani Empire that only has 1 official language he’d get 1 from step 1, 0 from step 2 and then the rest, so 5.
Correct?
With a sweep of his hat,
Paul
July 2, 2014 at 3:40 am #263684AnonymousInactiveSome of your example are ok but one is wrong.
Your human from Almeric would have 6
and your human for Coryan would have 5
but your human from Hinderlands would only have 6 not 7.Step 1 is being misinterpreted.
Race: A character gains all Automatic Languages listed in their racial entry. If the race lists ‘Native Nation’ under Automatic Language, choose two
national languages during Step 2, instead of one. If your starting nation only lists one native language, you do not gain an additional language from this step.It’s saying that if Native Nation is one of the listed languages in your race you don’t make the selection in Step 1, instead you pick 2 in Step 2.
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