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A forum for discussing and organizing recreational softball and baseball games and leagues in the greater Halifax area.

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    Uneducated or monolingual would work better.
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    Uneducated is probably best. For all we know, a barbarian is conversational in 3 different "barbarian" languages and can communicate in 6.
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      Uneducated or monolingual would work better.
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      Neither effectively encompasses "inability to *understand*" the spell's language, though.
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        Uneducated is probably best. For all we know, a barbarian is conversational in 3 different "barbarian" languages and can communicate in 6.
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        Wouldn't the allegory for class _be_ job? Or maybe career?
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          Wouldn't the allegory for class _be_ job? Or maybe career?
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          Not really. D&D characters *have* jobs (unless they're unemployed), the class just describes a set of skills that would (hopefully) be useful for that job. Class is more equivalent to a university degree or trade school diploma - it usually suggests certain jobs, but those skills are usually useful and sought after in many different careers. Warriors can have many different jobs, like bodyguard, townguard, soldier/mercenary, robber, brigand, monarch, hunter, or something completely different like university professor and the character just takes their exercise regimen really seriously.
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            Power words are just [truespeech](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Truespeech) in 5e The way I understand it, the whole world knows this language Funny meme doe
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              Neither effectively encompasses "inability to *understand*" the spell's language, though.
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              *illingual* works if we're willing to make up words
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                Power words are just [truespeech](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Truespeech) in 5e The way I understand it, the whole world knows this language Funny meme doe
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                >the whole world knows this language That would be super dangerous. It's prolly more accurate to say "reality obeys this language"
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                  *illingual* works if we're willing to make up words
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                  "Illingual" sounds like the dopest rap album of 1989
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                    Not really. D&D characters *have* jobs (unless they're unemployed), the class just describes a set of skills that would (hopefully) be useful for that job. Class is more equivalent to a university degree or trade school diploma - it usually suggests certain jobs, but those skills are usually useful and sought after in many different careers. Warriors can have many different jobs, like bodyguard, townguard, soldier/mercenary, robber, brigand, monarch, hunter, or something completely different like university professor and the character just takes their exercise regimen really seriously.
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                    So they're more of just _skill sets_ (lol obviously). I guess my mental dissonance came from you saying "it's a class, not a job ...", when naturally, skill sets are critically important to jobs! I guess a bit of a Venn diagram type confusion. lol Saying "not" about overlapping circles can get interesting with interpretations.
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                      *illingual* works if we're willing to make up words
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                      Making shit up as we go is how language evolves, so that could work —though one could certainly argue that even a primitive system of clicks, grunts, gestures, etc. to convey meaning would negate that term's all-encompassing scope. I suppose, according to this silly pedantry I've stepped in, the more precise term would describe an inability to parse "languages used by the majority of current civilizations", or something like that. 😅🤷🏼‍♂️
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                        I was bummed in *Dragonlance* when our favorite Death Knight, Lord Soth, finally uses power word kill, points his finger and just says "die". C'mon!
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                          I was bummed in *Dragonlance* when our favorite Death Knight, Lord Soth, finally uses power word kill, points his finger and just says "die". C'mon!
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                          Like, at least be a little fancy with it and use "perish" or some other posh word.
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                            I was bummed in *Dragonlance* when our favorite Death Knight, Lord Soth, finally uses power word kill, points his finger and just says "die". C'mon!
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                            Should be "power phrase" instead of power word, so it could get super fancy
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                              I was bummed in *Dragonlance* when our favorite Death Knight, Lord Soth, finally uses power word kill, points his finger and just says "die". C'mon!
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                              Personally, I describe the word as basically being every language spoken at once, yet you hear it most clearly in whatever language you understand best, and more to the point, it speaks most clearly to your soul, which (on a failed save) cannot help but to obey and thus perish. Even on a save I try to describe just how creepy and horrifyingly eldritch it is.
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                                >the whole world knows this language That would be super dangerous. It's prolly more accurate to say "reality obeys this language"
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                                Yup, this phrasing is better. Thanks for correction
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                                  In dnd 5e, there's no RAW to support this. In PF2e, you don't need to understand the spell but you need to be able to hear it. So deafening yourself does in fact protect against Power Word Kill, RAW.
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                                  Honestly, deafening yourself should not protect you from power word kill. It's supposed to be a version of true speech. You are not saying it to the person. You were saying it to the universe. Whether or not that person can hear you is completely irrelevant to the situation. It's the universe and all of creation hearing you and answering that call.
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