Pretty sure you'll find more than a few mythic figures with names based around killing X monster as well. If the kill was a big enough flex, it was something you could make a name around.
Pretty sure you'll find more than a few mythic figures with names based around killing X monster as well. If the kill was a big enough flex, it was something you could make a name around.
I guess they were the only knightly order to ever kill a dragon then. (Who wasn't even actually purple.)
Pretty sure you'll find more than a few mythic figures with names based around killing X monster as well. If the kill was a big enough flex, it was something you could make a name around.
I guess they were the only knightly order to ever kill a dragon then. (Who wasn't even actually purple.)
I would say the translator was more of a ranger than Lewis and Clark tbh
Perhaps so, but the claim was Mountain Men knew lots languages while history says otherwise
The larger challenge is being able to also read and write in those same languages. For simplicity's sake, D&D just handwaves multi-lingual literacy, but most people in the Middle Ages didn't know reading OR writing, let alone being able to do so in more than their native tongue. IMO, literacy beyond 1 language should be tied to the Intelligence stat. Then A) fewer people would dump stat INT, and B) you would actually be able to have some great mis-translation shennanigans. A symbol with a circle and wavy lines under it could mean a sauna, but it could also mean a cookhouse. A circle with wavy lines above it could mean a tavern or a communal latrine.
On another note, keep in mind that Comprehend Languages does not let anyone actually speak the language, so having a separate language ability does make sense. Though I find the Long Rest to change a tool proficiency or language proficiency to any other tool or language to be very questionable from a lore consistency perspective. This has also increasingly become the norm in 5e.
Well, to be fair, the existing lore of the Purple Dragon Knights is kind of dumb; you don't normally name a knightly order after a defeated enemy.
Hey now, quit making reasonable observations. It's a purely symbolic name and doesn't need any rationality.
Pretty sure you'll find more than a few mythic figures with names based around killing X monster as well. If the kill was a big enough flex, it was something you could make a name around.
I guess they were the only knightly order to ever kill a dragon then. (Who wasn't even actually purple.)
And wasn't killed by the Purple Dragon Knights.
The larger challenge is being able to also read and write in those same languages. For simplicity's sake, D&D just handwaves multi-lingual literacy, but most people in the Middle Ages didn't know reading OR writing, let alone being able to do so in more than their native tongue. IMO, literacy beyond 1 language should be tied to the Intelligence stat. Then A) fewer people would dump stat INT, and B) you would actually be able to have some great mis-translation shennanigans. A symbol with a circle and wavy lines under it could mean a sauna, but it could also mean a cookhouse. A circle with wavy lines above it could mean a tavern or a communal latrine.
On another note, keep in mind that Comprehend Languages does not let anyone actually speak the language, so having a separate language ability does make sense. Though I find the Long Rest to change a tool proficiency or language proficiency to any other tool or language to be very questionable from a lore consistency perspective. This has also increasingly become the norm in 5e.