Good point, but it doesn't hurt to try. Might save arrows and gain a few recruits who want to join the "Good Guys."

If she survives, Valeria could reach Turanian

See.  She speaks fluent Turanian swearwords

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Attack and Damage assumes point blank Shot applies. If it doesn't, subtract 1 from Attack and damage rolls.

Hmm, not so sure.  They were very rude you know.

Marathon, I don't think you can see the fight Valeria is in from where you are, so I'm assuming you are shooting to kill off the wounded bandits you can see. Please confirm.

I will shoot whichever hostile are in range.

There has been a lot of posts since I last posted so I may have missed some.

All of the PC's speak Common -- which for our purposes, as you are all in the Aquilonian army, means the language of Aquilonia. If you're not from Aquilonia, you have an accent, but you are all fluent enough to get by. You also speak your native tongue -- from whatever land you hail from. These are at no cost and part of the base build.

For characters with higher INT scores, the option for more languages is possible. You might consider learning Turanian -- you are in Turan and have been for weeks at least. It is the language the bandits spoke and will be useful.

In considering languages and home lands, this link will be useful:

https://hyboria.xoth.net/races/human_races.htm

Until you tell me you have learned it, you will not understand the locals, only the Aquilonian speakers -- army command, traders, etc.

Ooh does this mean if I made Valeria a native speaker of one of her other languages other than common, then she could have another language?

As long as you're prepared to live with the consequences of where you choose to come from - Zingaran Dog! (Actually I had zingarandog@hotmail for many years as a gaming email.)

https://hyboria.xoth.net/rules/languages.htm

Might be better for languages :)

 New player here. Hello folks. Demius is a Pict scout.

Welcome to the party Demius of the Wester Mark

I was thinking of Cimmerian rather than Zingaran so that'd be Barbarian Bitch but thinking about it, she has enough for now.

Next question about languages... if she comes across people with different languages and spends skill points on Linguistics next round (even as a cross class skill) does that mean she's learned the language?

I have a free language slot so I'll use it for Turanian. It'd make sense for Marathon to learn the language so he can communicate with the locals.

In general, I hope that when you level up you will advance skills that you have actually had an opportunity to learn as part of the play. If you learn a new language, for instance, there should be someone who speaks that language to teach you.

I had already taken Common (which I now know is Aquilonian), Hyrkanian (Kesta's native tongue), and Turanian.  Since I get the first two free, I'll add Hyperborean.  Geographically, it makes the most sense for Kesta to have picked up.

I have already taken Common, Argossian, Cimmerian, Hyrkanian and Turanian but I hadn't really thought about her origin.  I based her on another Valeria who was a pirate on the Inland Sea but this Valeria is a cook.  I could have her as Aquilonian but I wonder which origin would match the picture on her description?

 Hello,
 New player to the game, here. I will try and mest
h ASAP with the rest of you.

 Is Kesta a known officer or nco?

We're we not supposed to assemble?

Kesta is indeed your squad leader and the muster is for squad leaders -- I wasn't going to turn you away, first day confusion, etc. But she's right. She declared herself squad leader and no one objected.

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Ah that is fine.  I was confused I thought we were mustering for assignments.  Guess I missed that part of returning to the barracks :)

Another newbie...  Currently waiting on character approval.

Bretan's parents are Turanian, so, I see his starting languages as Turanian and Aquilonian.

So he speaks Aquilonian with a slight Turanian accent.  We'll see what trouble that gets him into.

:)

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