So I'm running a Shadow Sorcerer in an upcoming Curse of Strahd campaign, and I know next to nothing about the setting. I'm joining in at Lv6, so my character in theory is at least somewhat established in the world, but what languages are actually spoken by beings/people/entities (mostly thinking upper or lower planes) in the setting? would be unfortunate to have this opportunity for a bloodline-sourced esoteric knowledge of a language literally never come up. I was thinking Abyssal (because the abyss is the ultimate shadow) and either draconic because, duh, magic user, or celestial for that really striking contradiction. But again, I don't really want to look up "relevant languages" because I'm not trying to come up on plot spoilers.
You will not regularly speak any language other than Common in that campaign, so it doesn't really matter. That said, elves and a dragon once dwelt in the valley of Barovia, and you might yet find a few who speak those tongues. I'll say no more.
Yes there are plot points and contacts that might depend on knowing a certain language. However, only a poorly designed campaign (or bad GM) would have a major event fail because the PCs don't know a particular language.
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-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
You will not regularly speak any language other than Common in that campaign, so it doesn't really matter. That said, elves and a dragon once dwelt in the valley of Barovia, and you might yet find a few who speak those tongues. I'll say no more.
This is precisely what I'm looking for. I don't want to take, say, abyssal, if demons aren't a thing that are dealt with in the campaign. Thanks!
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So I'm running a Shadow Sorcerer in an upcoming Curse of Strahd campaign, and I know next to nothing about the setting. I'm joining in at Lv6, so my character in theory is at least somewhat established in the world, but what languages are actually spoken by beings/people/entities (mostly thinking upper or lower planes) in the setting? would be unfortunate to have this opportunity for a bloodline-sourced esoteric knowledge of a language literally never come up. I was thinking Abyssal (because the abyss is the ultimate shadow) and either draconic because, duh, magic user, or celestial for that really striking contradiction. But again, I don't really want to look up "relevant languages" because I'm not trying to come up on plot spoilers.
You will not regularly speak any language other than Common in that campaign, so it doesn't really matter. That said, elves and a dragon once dwelt in the valley of Barovia, and you might yet find a few who speak those tongues. I'll say no more.
In most campaigns it doesn't really matter.
Yes there are plot points and contacts that might depend on knowing a certain language. However, only a poorly designed campaign (or bad GM) would have a major event fail because the PCs don't know a particular language.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Barovian is a language... So is Vistani.
Which if you follow the main campaign starts you would not be able to justify.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
This is precisely what I'm looking for. I don't want to take, say, abyssal, if demons aren't a thing that are dealt with in the campaign. Thanks!