BBEG idea: You go into the creature's lair and start having the fight of your life. You're low on HP, the BBEG looks indestructible, and then you reveal the BBEG's motivation. It turns out they're just really tired of not being able to get their DnD group together for a session that last longer than three minutes. So you call your boss like, "Hey, man, you may as well go home. I think this is gonna take a while." You start talking, airing out life's troubles. Later the BBEG is driving you home (because there's no way you're trusting the slightly-off shop owner whose shop the BBEG was lairing in to do so after he nearly hit you in the head with a baseball bat) and you're in the start of a friendship.
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Out of universe, it makes sense why it only gives the literal meaning. That keeps benefits to actually knowing the language and doesn't make it too big for a 1st level spell.
But in universe? It has to be intentionally hampered to be like that. With real-world things like Google Translate it makes sense why you'll get more literal meanings. But with magic, it's already highly accustomed to dealing with the intent behind someone. Enlarge/Reduce spells don't have to deal with the technicalities of microbes and whatnot. They just deal with the intent of the spell.
But comprehend languages doesn't go that way. It would logically be easy for spells, based on intent, to go from meaning->meaning. BUT NO! Comprehend Languages decided to go meaning->literal->literal. It adds a step to the process. In other words, it should logically speaking be easier to make a spell that translates the true meaning of the words of another language in the meaning in another language rather than having to find a way to butcher the process.
Opinion on this, Comprehend Languages gives you the ability to understand languages in the same way a non-native language speaker would speak it. It's like misinterpreting "The Door is Ajar" to "The door is a jar" or "There's a frog in my throat", as long as you know that the literal meaning probably isn't the actual meaning it should be fine right? I mean, literal meaning just makes it hard to understand similes and metaphors I think.
BBEG idea: You go into the creature's lair and start having the fight of your life. You're low on HP, the BBEG looks indestructible, and then you reveal the BBEG's motivation. It turns out they're just really tired of not being able to get their DnD group together for a session that last longer than three minutes. So you call your boss like, "Hey, man, you may as well go home. I think this is gonna take a while." You start talking, airing out life's troubles. Later the BBEG is driving you home (because there's no way you're trusting the slightly-off shop owner whose shop the BBEG was lairing in to do so after he nearly hit you in the head with a baseball bat) and you're in the start of a friendship.
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— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fan δ —
making a smoothie for meta
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
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— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fan δ —
making a smoothie for meta
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
This statement is a lie, but I never lie
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Ability scores: 12
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*Abjuration Wizard appears*
Me: The f is this?!
“Magic is distilled laziness. Put that on my gravestone.”
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This! Is! Sparta!
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No, this is Patrick!
I am also here.
Am snek.
Oh I love that quote. My favorites others would probably be "East? I thought you said Weast!" and "That was an oval. It has to be a circle!"
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Belolonandalogalo, Sunny | Draíocht, Kholias | Eggo Lass, 100 Dungeons
Talorin Tebedi, Vecna: Eve | Cherry, Stormwreck | Chipper, Strahd
We Are Modron
Get rickrolled here. Awesome music here. Track 48, 5/23/25, Immaculate Mary
those are good quotes
I am also here.
Am snek.
Opinion: In-universe, Comprehend Languages is a terribly designed spell.
Out of universe, it makes sense why it only gives the literal meaning. That keeps benefits to actually knowing the language and doesn't make it too big for a 1st level spell.
But in universe? It has to be intentionally hampered to be like that. With real-world things like Google Translate it makes sense why you'll get more literal meanings. But with magic, it's already highly accustomed to dealing with the intent behind someone. Enlarge/Reduce spells don't have to deal with the technicalities of microbes and whatnot. They just deal with the intent of the spell.
But comprehend languages doesn't go that way. It would logically be easy for spells, based on intent, to go from meaning->meaning. BUT NO! Comprehend Languages decided to go meaning->literal->literal. It adds a step to the process. In other words, it should logically speaking be easier to make a spell that translates the true meaning of the words of another language in the meaning in another language rather than having to find a way to butcher the process.
Anyways thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
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Belolonandalogalo, Sunny | Draíocht, Kholias | Eggo Lass, 100 Dungeons
Talorin Tebedi, Vecna: Eve | Cherry, Stormwreck | Chipper, Strahd
We Are Modron
Get rickrolled here. Awesome music here. Track 48, 5/23/25, Immaculate Mary
Opinion on this, Comprehend Languages gives you the ability to understand languages in the same way a non-native language speaker would speak it. It's like misinterpreting "The Door is Ajar" to "The door is a jar" or "There's a frog in my throat", as long as you know that the literal meaning probably isn't the actual meaning it should be fine right? I mean, literal meaning just makes it hard to understand similes and metaphors I think.
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My hovercraft is full of eels!
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Belolonandalogalo, Sunny | Draíocht, Kholias | Eggo Lass, 100 Dungeons
Talorin Tebedi, Vecna: Eve | Cherry, Stormwreck | Chipper, Strahd
We Are Modron
Get rickrolled here. Awesome music here. Track 48, 5/23/25, Immaculate Mary
Agh, there's a snake in his boot!
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It was me, I was wearing the boot
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To infinity and my mom
To beyond and dnd
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Am snek.