Loremaster Language List

[joriandrake]

"Bonus Languages

A loremaster can learn any new language at 4th and 8th level."

Then the list of languages continues, and it has Druidic on it.

Well, Druidic has rarely been used in the games I played in, except one that was basically a sylvan/druidic campaign anyway. As Loremaster, a class that focuses on learning secrets, it is plausible it has an ability to learn Druidic, but I would like to know if this isn't some mistake.

So the question is: Is it true that a Loremaster can learn Druidic (and other, setting specific secret languages) at level 4 and 8?
Even if not having any Druid or Ranger level?

[joriandrake]

bump

[blackbloodtroll]

Seems like it. You may piss off some druids though.

[VRMH]

You can learn it. But where'd you find someone to teach it to you?

[blackbloodtroll]

Ex-druids.

[joriandrake]

VRMH wrote:

You can learn it. But where'd you find someone to teach it to you?

there is no such requirement to learn sylvan, elemental, fiendish, celestial, draconic, and other languages, so it wouldn't be fair to pick druidic specifically to raise this question

blackbloodtroll wrote:

Seems like it. You may piss off some druids though.

yeah, mabbe, but now I see a reason to get 4 levels in this otherwise weak class, to get druidic, drow sign language, or any other secret language for a character revealed on lvl 4

A wise person who knows such a language but is not supposed to would keep it to itself and not talk about it, or in it. Using it only to understand such language spoken if they are near.

[VRMH]

VRMH wrote:

where'd you find someone to teach it to you?

joriandrake wrote:

there is no such requirement to learn sylvan, elemental, fiendish, celestial, draconic, and other languages, so it wouldn't be fair to pick druidic specifically to raise this question

Sure it would be. It's not that odd to find a book "How to Learn Draconic in Thirty Days", but any publisher who prints a Druidic Dictionary will likely find their business suddenly overrun by fire ants.

And bears.

[Ryu Kaijitsu]

it can be taught ex-druids, and as said unless the GM is damn picky and out to make your life hard, no one needs to run and find a dragon or a nymph to learn draconic or sylvan either

Loremasters learn secrets, this is the focus/fluff of the class itself, the secrets can come from multitude of sources, even an old log or memoirs of a druid

[Michael Radagast]

I picture Druidic as Ogham, you know, the old Irish tree alphabet? So it must be written somewhere, yes? Loremasters - being linguistic specialists and also interested in old/forgotten/lost relics, ruins, etc etc - could easily have stumbled onto an elaborately carved staff, or tree, or shield, anything that has enough of the language to decipher. No druids required.

That being said, would knowing druidic get you Bluff/Disguise bonuses to pretending you're a druid?

[Ryu Kaijitsu]

Doubt that Michael, only druids would know druidic 99% of the time so you may only fool those and not any other people, and to try to fool druids would be a very risky idea, as you most likely won't have animal shape or companion or similar druidic spells. I guess a good disguise would help fool drow however, if the language you learned is their sign language.