I'm creating a 3rd level tabaxi ranger for a Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign. After walking through the character creation steps in D&D Beyond, my character ended up speaking 5 expected languages, and one unexpected language.
As a tabaxi, she knows Common and Draconic; because my favored enemies are humanoids, she knows Primordial (ideally I would have her learn Sahuagin, but the D&D Beyond character builder doesn't want to let me select it); and replacing the Natural Explorer feature with the Deft Explorer feature allows them to learn Halfling and Goblin.
After putting all of that in, looking at the language proficiencies of my character sheet shows that in addition to those 5 languages, she also knows Sahuagin. I can't find where I selected this option in character creation; I even went through the D&D Beyond character creator again from scratch, and the same thing happened. Where is this proficiency coming from? I don't mind it, but I can't figure out why it's appearing there.
One Reddit user discovered: "Very interesting, I just checked all of the humanoid favored enemy options and only Sahuagin auto-grants the Sahuagin language in addition to the language you otherwise gain from the feature. I’m about to go look into the source material to see if anything special is listed about them." and "Nope, nothing special about Sahuagin. I even checked the DDB forums to see if anyone else caught this, and apparently nobody has ever had this issue before. However, I have been able to replicate it, so it’s definitely not a one-time glitch."
I can confirm this. I'm guessing it's because Sahuagin isn't in the standard set of languages to choose from on DDB (judging by the dropdown for Languages via a Background), not even as an Exotic Language, so this makes sure you have the language?
In any case, you'd probably want to leave the Language selection blank instead of picking Primordial.
Cross posting this from Reddit, after they suggested my issue might be a bug.
I'm creating a 3rd level tabaxi ranger for a Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign. After walking through the character creation steps in D&D Beyond, my character ended up speaking 5 expected languages, and one unexpected language.
As a tabaxi, she knows Common and Draconic; because my favored enemies are humanoids, she knows Primordial (ideally I would have her learn Sahuagin, but the D&D Beyond character builder doesn't want to let me select it); and replacing the Natural Explorer feature with the Deft Explorer feature allows them to learn Halfling and Goblin.
After putting all of that in, looking at the language proficiencies of my character sheet shows that in addition to those 5 languages, she also knows Sahuagin. I can't find where I selected this option in character creation; I even went through the D&D Beyond character creator again from scratch, and the same thing happened. Where is this proficiency coming from? I don't mind it, but I can't figure out why it's appearing there.
Here's a link to the character sheet in reference: https://ddb.ac/characters/62213848/B3Rvpj
One Reddit user discovered: "Very interesting, I just checked all of the humanoid favored enemy options and only Sahuagin auto-grants the Sahuagin language in addition to the language you otherwise gain from the feature. I’m about to go look into the source material to see if anything special is listed about them." and "Nope, nothing special about Sahuagin. I even checked the DDB forums to see if anyone else caught this, and apparently nobody has ever had this issue before. However, I have been able to replicate it, so it’s definitely not a one-time glitch."
I can confirm this. I'm guessing it's because Sahuagin isn't in the standard set of languages to choose from on DDB (judging by the dropdown for Languages via a Background), not even as an Exotic Language, so this makes sure you have the language?
In any case, you'd probably want to leave the Language selection blank instead of picking Primordial.
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