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All my elves for PFS all hail from Jinin, but for some reason, none of them can legally speak the main language [Tien] without picking up Linguistics. You'd think being there for hundreds of years would force an entire nation of misplaced Elves to learn the language of their neighbours. Especially when the Emperor himself has a Minkaian name.
Yeah, it's kinda not fair.
Giving you the language for free would be a mechanical advantage.
Making you spend the point on linguistics to learn common would have the same net effect.
Letting you know tien and elven would leave you at tables who can't talk to you, and you'd be taking orders from a venture captain that you can't understand.
They could at least add it to the bonus languages available to elves. That way, you still need a higher Int to know it, but you don't need to use up precious skill points learning a language everybody in your home nation speaks.
All my elves for PFS all hail from Jinin, but for some reason, none of them can legally speak the main language [Tien] without picking up Linguistics. You'd think being there for hundreds of years would force an entire nation of misplaced Elves to learn the language of their neighbours. Especially when the Emperor himself has a Minkaian name.
Yeah, it's kinda not fair.
Aaaaand I just realized I ignored this problem when I built my tiefling. Now he has an illegal language. Since "all human languages" is bizarrely not an entry in the tiefling bonus languages, I have to figure out how to have him learn the language he's been speaking his entire life.
Aaaaand I just realized I ignored this problem when I built my tiefling. Now he has an illegal language. Since "all human languages" is bizarrely not an entry in the tiefling bonus languages, I have to figure out how to have him learn the language he's been speaking his entire life.All my elves for PFS all hail from Jinin, but for some reason, none of them can legally speak the main language [Tien] without picking up Linguistics. You'd think being there for hundreds of years would force an entire nation of misplaced Elves to learn the language of their neighbours. Especially when the Emperor himself has a Minkaian name.
Yeah, it's kinda not fair.
Try the bookstore at your local shrine to Desna; you should be able to find well-written translation dictionaries.
As far as languages? I wonder more about why there's limits on the bonus languages selection. I know it's a matter of balance to make sure that things don't get out of hand with 'I speek anything', though.
But on a semi-related note, if I dropped enough bonus points into Int on level-ups to get a new bonus (my barbarian will be the smartest ever!), would she pick up a language as well, or is that only starting out?