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warn players if they won't speak common at start.
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 2:15 am
by Vandelai
Pretty simple, I would suggest that the character creation tool should throw a warning if the combination of selections you made for race and starting location will result in not speaking common at start.
Re: warn players if they won't speak common at start.
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:14 am
by dolifer
I think a combination of common sense and a little research is enough to get an idea whether you'll be speaking Common (e.g, most anything save humans from the Underdark; orcs, halforcs, and goblins from the Orc Camp; and so on). There are also always the ask channel and these fora if one is uncertain and in need of some quick help.
Re: warn players if they won't speak common at start.
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:34 am
by Yemin
dolifer wrote:I think a combination of common sense and a little research is enough to get an idea whether you'll be speaking Common (e.g, most anything save humans from the Underdark; orcs, halforcs, and goblins from the Orc Camp; and so on). There are also always the ask channel and these fora if one is uncertain and in need of some quick help.
There's a portion of character creation when you choose your main race that says:
You now speak elven/dwarven/orc/whatever.
Maybe an additional line to say, type language/lang to check your languages here would resolve everything.
I don't think the help files or the wiki say if wild elf is able to speak common at the moment do they? And so on.
I'm always a fan of efficient problem solving and removing the need to ever use the ask channel is mostly why I suggest this.
Re: warn players if they won't speak common at start.
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 3:55 pm
by Algon
I may be old fashion here...but I feel about 5 minutes of research in a player handbook can resolve just about any questions that anyone might have about creating a character.
Re: warn players if they won't speak common at start.
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 5:35 pm
by Yemin
Far as I know, there's a bunch of people who aren't familiar with dnd... I mean, I played the game and still didn't know much about gold, or wild elves. I'll be honest, I've never seen the PHB for 3.5 in my life. I played 3.5 using the SRd for 1 and a half games and moved on.
If the game requires player's know something, I think it would be more productive for it to be in help files or a game resource should probably link to it.
E.g. The deity help files are pretty good in this aspect.