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hope it's a quick recovery, take care.

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Sleep. Drink plenty of fluids. Like whiskey!

Does a successful Test in a language once mean you don't have to test for it ever again?

IE.
I know Elvish. I succeed in a test to know Sylvian.
I now know Sylvian for all future roleplays.

Nope. It's specific to that situation. You'll have to roll for Sylvan again. You pass a Test to understand just the gist of that specific phrase/words/runes, not to learn a new language.

Thanks for the feedback, I've improved the text now to make it clearer. =)

I'll soon add some Polyglot Trait or something like this for a permanent boost and/or Advantage in known languages. =)

(Asking clarify questions to help)

You are in a Sylvian speaking village.
You talk to the guard and your roll passes to know Sylvian.
You walk pass The guard and talk to the shopkeep. Do you roll again?
If I talk to the guard hours later do I need to roll again?
If you are in this village for a few days do you roll once per day or once per conversation?


I am guessing this is all based on your opinion at the time and whatever is needed to keep the game simple and not drowning in rolls.
I am completely ok with that. Just clarifying questions to ease my mind.

I did a quick edit of my character Zyra Emberfang to track languages...

Great questions — I really appreciate you checking in to get clarity.

The short answer is: it depends on the situation. What really matters isn't what you're doing (like speaking Sylvan), but why you're doing it — and whether there's uncertainty, risk, or an interesting consequence tied to the outcome.

You don’t roll just to "understand Sylvan." You roll because you’re trying to do something interesting or uncertain — like convincing a guard to let you through a restricted gate, or eavesdropping on a tense conversation in a language you only half-understand. In those cases, language becomes part of the obstacle that might complicate your success or raise the stakes. It’s not the language itself that’s risky — it’s the situation.

So, if you’ve already rolled once to get the gist of Sylvan and you're just chatting with the shopkeeper later, you likely wouldn’t roll again. But if hours later you’re interrogating a suspect in Sylvan and you need precise meaning under pressure, I might call for a new roll — or maybe give you Disadvantage if it’s a tricky dialect, or Advantage if you’ve already been immersed for a while and the stakes are lower.

The goal is not to bog things down with unnecessary rolls. The dice hit the table when the outcome matters, and both success and failure would push the story forward in an interesting way.

So don’t worry too much about how many times to roll for a language — just focus on what your character is trying to do, and we’ll handle when a Test is needed. I'm always happy to explain why a roll is (or isn’t) called for in the moment.

Hope that helps!

Looks great!

That was my assumption also.
Just wanted to make sure.
We are Perfect! No problems whatsoever!

I think individual threads have become hidden. At the very least, I can't find mine.

Gamersplane.com just updated, so access controls changed. I think I fixed it now. =)

If you're seeing some of our sub-forums as unread (even though you read them) please go back to the game page and click "Mark Forum as read", just below the threads

This should fix it for our game. There is a bug in Gamersplane.com that should be fixed soon.

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