18.5.1 Why not make languages work like a skill?

Indeed...

If, as your character developed and you spread out into the world and encountered all sorts of exotic races (both player and NPC) you also needed to learn other languages as skills (just as you are honing, say, your skills in swordplay or magic), I think it could work nicely. It doesn't really significantly interfere with community building unless you are dumped into a situation where you and your buddies want to play together right off the bat, but because you chose different races you can't communicate for 3 weeks. This is, obviously, bad... but also, through better design, avoidable.

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