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I made up a Half-Elf to play in the playtest adventure. I took Elven Stride (+5 feet of movement) and Low Light Vision from the half-elf feat. Because the character's Human half is Taldan, I went to look at my language list. It is Common/Taldane and 1 bonus feat from my "available list" which is your ethnicity or region. Since my ethnicity is Taldan and has no other language associated, and my region is Taldor, and so isn't on the regional list, what are my options for my bonus languages? I gook Elven, but that seems cheating (getting three benefits from Half-Elf). But it is on the Common Languages list, which is supposed to common everywhere.
Is that okay? What "list" exactly is a Taldan supposed to choose from?
Thank you.
page 34 sidebar (Human ancestry) wrote: Languages
Common
One additional language, selected from those to which you have access
Everyone has access to all common things, by definition, so you can select any common language. Regional languages are all uncommon, but you can pick anything from the Common Languages table on page 40 (which includes Elven).
Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote: page 34 sidebar (Human ancestry) wrote: Languages
Common
One additional language, selected from those to which you have access
Everyone has access to all common things, by definition, so you can select any common language. Regional languages are all uncommon, but you can pick anything from the Common Languages table on page 40 (which includes Elven). This was really unclear to us: "languages to which you have access", but the GM ruled that since our Taldan wizard had the scholar background, choosing from that other table was fine. I had initially thought that it specifically meant those regional languages.
Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote: page 34 sidebar (Human ancestry) wrote: Languages
Common
One additional language, selected from those to which you have access
Everyone has access to all common things, by definition, so you can select any common language. Regional languages are all uncommon, but you can pick anything from the Common Languages table on page 40 (which includes Elven). Thanks. That makes getting "Elven" on your language list a lot less special LOL
The wording on this is really unclear. Why not say "selected from those available from your ethnicity or common languages on p 40?
I feel silly, because I had initially missed this and wondered the same thing.
Page 41:
"REGIONAL LANGUAGES
The table below lists the languages of languages of Golarion’s
Inner Sea and regions where they’re widely spoken. Regional
languages are uncommon. However, if your character hails
from a language’s region, she has access to that language.
Note that in the Inner Sea region of Golarion, the language
mechanically referred to as Common is the same as Taldane,
the language that originates from the Empire of Taldor, which
formerly controlled much of that area."
This was something that confused me as well when I was making a half-orc druid.
So apparently such a character can start with four languages (Common, one other language from the common languages table, Orcish from the half-orc ancestry feat and Druidic from the druid class) before even reaching 14 intelligence.
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