Hello.
       I agree, players should not have to learn a new 
language.  But that's not what I'm talking about.  A 
naming language is used by Designers of games to 
create a world that seems real.  Tolkien invented a little 
more than a naming language for his world, so that all 
his place and people names sounded like they fit 
together.  With a naming language, game and 
adventure desigers for DR can create such a world.
       You could make the rules for a naming language 
simple enough that any Adventure master who wants to 
create an adventure can make some cool sounding 
names.  Maybe the rules can be posted online.

>===== Original Message From Joe Revesz 
<jrevesz@...> =====
>Stephen wrote:
>
>>        Speaking of a common language....
>>        I have a freind who is an amateur  (soon to be
>> professional) linguist, and he might be able to come 
up
>> with a naming language for Talania.  A naming
>> language is a very basic grammer for coming up 
with
>> names for things.  How does that sound?
>
>My personal opinion is that this is unnecessary for 
DragonRaid.  Regular
>RPGs, fine.  While it would be nice to have an actual 
set of rules for this
>common language, having the players learn it would 
take away from time and
>effort spent memorizing WordRunes, which they really 
do need to use in the
>game.
>
>Although, (not that I want to do this) wouldn't it be 
easier to assign
>actual foreign languages as racial languages?  For 
instance, French for
>Elves, German for Dwarves, Japanese for Gnomes, 
etc.  Of course, this causes
>havoc for our overseas players.  And, this is a cheap 
alternative to getting
>the permission to use things like Tolkien's Elvish and 
Runes.
>
>Joe
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