Arbon wrote:If the goal is added realism, this won't work because it's inherently unrealistic. Assuming that every species would be drastically less intelligent than the modern day, and humans the dumbest of all.
If the goal is to improve play, this won't really do much beyond making people jump through hoops and give more power to anyone with access to a translator. IE: Whoever grabs it first.
If the goal is to improve the quality of characters, this isn't going to change anything at all. Improving the characters means improving the people who play them, and extra restrictions aren't the same as role-playing experience. You can still be a very poor quality, horrible character, while fallowing every rule.
Pretty much this, and I have some things to add. I mean it in the nicest way possible when I say this is a bad idea that will hurt creativity and fun. I have a demoness character, and although I slightly roll my eyes when some non-demon Taj speaks it...
1. Their character might have a very good backstory-reason for being able to speak it.
2. I know some languages are physiologically dependent. (e.g. Skrellian, which requires bubble noises). However, just because a character can speak a language, doesn't mean their accent is perfect. Rather, it just means they can speak it well enough to be understood. We can understand Indian and thick Chinese english accents most of the time right? Same deal. It's not hard to make bubble-esque noises, even if you aren't made of jello like Skrells.
3. If we ban it, it prevents chars who ICly just "understand" the language from playing. E.G. I may not be able to make the noises, but I know that the demon word for kill is Borsak'Vlah (just an example, probs isn't true :3).
The biggest reason is what Arbon noted: speaking more than one language isn't unrealistic at all. The only hard part of learning languages is vocab imo, since grammer understanding is built into our brains.
The only reason we normally limit to 2 anyways is for balance as far as I know.
Scree wrote:To be honest this is probably only an issue because of people having language-offs over comms, and the occasional edgelord speaking demonic.
edit: maybe we can change the language descriptor to a subtle mock of people who pick demonic just to be cool and dark :p
I'm ok with that. I think the demon race chars usually look down on the non-demon-but-speaks-daemon speakers anyhow.
Antsy Coder. Characters: Muffy (drider), Jaslene (naga), Susan (slime), Miki (oni), Alythess (Demon)