Similar to the old Thieves' Cant from 3.5. Often when running scenarios it would be useful to have the equivalent of Drow Sign language to communicate with other Pathfinders.
And yes I know there's the Discern Secret Message using Sense Motive, but I'm looking for a way to communicate silently with other Pathfinders that only Pathfinders would know.
Perhaps some of the Literaticians in the Society could solve this problem?
Im not sure but in the PF novel Prince of Wolves one of the characters has no tongue so she signs alot. The one of the main characters whose name is on the tip of my brain but i cant remember recongnizes some of it and asks how she learned the Pathfinder sign language.
Not sure if there is an official sign language or if it is just i the novel.
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Seekers of Secrets (page 25) has some guidelines for the cyphers, sign language and other codes pathfinders use to communicate with each other covertly. Nothing is an actual language, so it's up to GM interpretation as to what can be communicated, but pathfinders do get a +2 bonus on Bluff and Sense Motive checks to transmit/discern a secret message.
This is exactly what I was looking for: Pathfinder Sign
This is all that I'm asking for: Pathfinder Hand Signals
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My wife has been considering an oracle with the tongues curse, preventing easy communication in combat. She thought about handing out signal whistles to people and telling them to blow it if they need healing but she didn't see them get hurt. I thought that was pretty clever. :)
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This is all that I'm asking for: Pathfinder Hand Signals
If that's all your are asking for, have the players at your table memorize those 43 hand signals. Problem solved.
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I wouldn't let sign language solve the problem of Tongues.
If you want to make the bluff/sense motive check to discern secret message check as an Oracle with the Tongues curse, that's fine.
Or if you want to roleplay pantomiming and such, that's great too.
But there isn't a language, sign or otherwise, that will overcome the tongue's curse (that is unless someone else in your party understands the language the oracle can speak while in combat or other stressful situation).
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(that is unless someone else in your party understands the language the oracle can speak while in combat or other stressful situation).
If my brothers lived here in the Twin Cities with me, you can bet we'd each have a Tongues-curse oracle (one melee, one support/healing, and one controller) set to the same language and play them together. ;)
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I know thesis only tangentially related, but I didn't think that it warranted a separate thread.
What, precisely, is the "Common" language in the world of Golarion?
In other settings which I have played, it is a constructed language, used mostly for trade. Others, it has a name, like, the Overking's Common Tongue. Sometimes, it's both.
Is it Taldan, or something? Is there an in-character name for it used in novels or anything?
The thing is, there's a lot of Pathfinders. And the whole kerfuffle with the Shadow Lodge proves that there's a lot of former Pathfinders. (Fewer now, but still.) So a secret language that everyone in the Society knows would stay secret for exactly zero seconds.