So, we just hit level 3 and I have a lot of skill points. I took Aasimar and get 2 languages for each rank in linguistics and I'm the party face. Anyway, I'm looking for some language selection choices. GM hasn't read past book 1 yet, so didn't know off hand, except he thought Giant would be useful. He's fine with me asking for languages. Here's my current languages:
Common, Celestial, Sylvan, Dragon, Dwarven, Elven, Skald, Hallit, Aklo
So if I put a rank in linguistics I get 2, or 2 points for 4 languages. Anyone have any suggestions on top of giant?
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Based on what I as a player would know at the time of the AP's suggested level-up to 3, Abyssal, Aquan, Auran, Gnome, and Goblin would be among my picks if I wanted to talk to absolutely everything. None is really essential, however; it turns out that almost anything you encounter that speaks the above also speaks one of the languages you know.
If you use summon monster regularly it might be a good idea to invest in Ignan. Fire elementals can be good summons in this AP.
I would strongly suggest setting aside a Linguistics budget for future levels as well. At this point in the AP you have not yet encountered all the languages you're going to find people speaking, which cuts two ways. On the one hand, you'll want to learn them at some point. On the other, they're assumed to be rare in the Inner Sea, and could you have learned them before encountering them? You shouldn't really need more than a point per level, however, unless you really want to go into forgery.
I'm a winter witch, so can't summon fire elementals as that gives the spell the fire descriptor. Thanks for the advice, I'll pick up all except Aquan and Auran which I can get next level. I get a lot of languages and 2 per point invested so I'm sure I can budget in some skill points when needed.
I agree with the idea to hold off on some ranks. In later books, learning new languages should be viable on the second level gained in each book. I am just about to GM book 6, and the bard in the party has been doing just this.
Okay. If I were to make suggestions? Hallit and Skald would be handy, as you're the Party Face.
Ah. Missed that.
Small note: Linguistics is useful for more than just languages. You can also use it to forge papers and I think to translate documents from languages you don't yet know.
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Small note: Linguistics is useful for more than just languages. You can also use it to forge papers and I think to translate documents from languages you don't yet know.
Forgery was mentioned already, and as the character is a winter witch, translating written text should be no problem as long as the character has a couple of Linguistics ranks (which it does). Witches get ad-hoc bonuses to translating many of the AP's obscure texts.
LOL, I already have a +10 to linguistics: Eirwyn Le Snaedis.
Thanks for the advice all. All this talk of forgery is making me think I should invest in stealth and sleight of and or something! After Auran and Aquan next level I'll just sit back and plan on adding some skill ranks every book as needed. I was well aware of a couple non-ISWG languages(that book gets talked about a lot in the PFS group I attend), but the GM wouldn't let me take them yet, rightfully so I'd say:)