List Of your favorite Custom Perks

CoyoteGestalt · 02-14-2016, 09:00 AM

Specialized Fluency: You have Accented spoken fluency in a language, or Accented literacy, or Broken spoken fluency and literacy, but only for communicating about a single, specialized subject area. This perk is suitable for students and scholars who learn enough of a foreign language to communicate about their academic specialty, but not for daily functions. It can also represent, for example, mercenaries and adventurers who learn to operate foreign-made (or alien!) equipment but don't know the language as used outside of weapons manuals, clerics who only know the liturgical components of a language, or linguists learning a dead language from very limited sources. (This last can be relevant when they later meet up with time- or world-jumpers who learned the language normally!)

An alternative version of this perk could be added to existing Broken fluency to increase your fluency and literacy to Accented within your specialty, or perhaps to allow either Broken literacy or Broken fluency within your specialty in two closely related languages.

Obviously, this is only a meaningful perk if the character is at some point going to need to interact with people who do speak the rest of the language! If everyone in the world has only ever known as much as you do, then you probably need to buy the language at full price, since you don't face a meaningful limitation in the context of the game.

02-14-2016, 09:00 AM	#23
CoyoteGestalt Join Date: Jan 2009	Re: List Of your favorite Custom Perks Specialized Fluency: You have Accented spoken fluency in a language, or Accented literacy, or Broken spoken fluency and literacy, but only for communicating about a single, specialized subject area. This perk is suitable for students and scholars who learn enough of a foreign language to communicate about their academic specialty, but not for daily functions. It can also represent, for example, mercenaries and adventurers who learn to operate foreign-made (or alien!) equipment but don't know the language as used outside of weapons manuals, clerics who only know the liturgical components of a language, or linguists learning a dead language from very limited sources. (This last can be relevant when they later meet up with time- or world-jumpers who learned the language normally!) An alternative version of this perk could be added to existing Broken fluency to increase your fluency and literacy to Accented within your specialty, or perhaps to allow either Broken literacy or Broken fluency within your specialty in two closely related languages. Obviously, this is only a meaningful perk if the character is at some point going to need to interact with people who do speak the rest of the language! If everyone in the world has only ever known as much as you do, then you probably need to buy the language at full price, since you don't face a meaningful limitation in the context of the game.