Knowledge Points and Languages

Characters also start with a pool of points equal to their Smarts die. These can be spent on Languages or Knowledge skill Ranks.

Races Automatically know their Racial Language at Native and Orcish (if Horde) or Common (if Alliance) at Fluent levels

For ½ Point you can gain fluency a Dialect of a language you already know.

For ½ Point you can gain basic understanding of a new language.

For ½ Point you can gain fluency in a language you know to a basic level

For ½ Point you can speak a language you know fluently at a native level

for ½ Point if you are illiterate, you can learn the script of 1 language

For 1 Point you can learn a new language to Fluent Level

For 1 Point you can buy at d4 or raise a Knowlege Skill one die type

For 2 point you can step a Knowledge skill higher than your smarts.

Example of Knowledge Points Blood Elf Rogue, Cassamaria Moonshadow has a smarts of d6, she has a pool of 6 Points to spend.   In her history she grew up as apprentice to her father a High Elf clothier, working out of Loerderon. She knows enough Common to get by, but she was young and hasn’t used it much During the Third war and the scourge invasion of Loerderon her father is killed and she is sent home to Silvermoon City, where she ends up scraping by on the streets. The walls of Silvermoon could not hold back the lich kings army and Quel’thalas was overrun by the dead. She lived in the forests among other survivors like freedom fighters. When the blood elves joined Thralls new Horde she took the opportunity to travel, leaving her homeland for Durotar, and learning the ways of the new Horde, Her quick martial skills endeared her to the orc people and she fell in love with them and their ways. She now calls a hut in Orgrimmar home and has been trained to ride a great Worg.

Lang: Thalassian (Native)   [0] Lang: Orcish (Fluent).        [0] Knowledge: Tirisfal d4       [1]   Lang: Common (Basic)      [½] Knowledge: Undead d6      [2] Knowledge: Orc Culture d6 [1] Lang: Orcish (Native).        [½]

Basic Understanding

You can communicate in this language on a rudimentary level. To understand the speaker make a smarts roll modified by the following

Speaker is Basic -2

Speaker is Fluent -1

Speaker is Native 0

Subject is Simple 0

Subject is Focused -2

Subject is Complex -4

Fluent

A speaker can speak in the language without a problem but has an accent that will give away a cross species disguise.

Native - At Native Level you don’t have an accent and can converse at all sorts of levels.

Roleplaying Languages

Included on the following table is a list of languages or accents that represent

Language	Spoken By	Notes	Script	Roleplay
Common	Humans, Alliance, Some Forsaken		Common	Light Generic American Accent
Dwarvish	Dwarves		Runic	Put on a thick scottish accent.
Thalassian	Blood Elves, High Elves, Some Forsaken	Counts as knowing Darnassian to Basic level	Darnassian	Sophisticated but Sarcastic
Darnassian	Night Elves, Dryads, Ancients, Sons of Cenarius	Counts as knowing Thalassian to Basic level	Darnassian	Sophisticated, Proper, Flowing
Gnome	Gnomes	Gnome scripts also allow for advanced mathematics	Common	Nasal and Pitched up,
Draenei	Draenei		Eredic	Eastern European
Gilnaen	Worgan, Some Humans		Common	Cockney, Londoner
Orcish	Orcs, Horde	Common language of the Horde	Common	Throaty
Zandali	Trolls		Glyphic	Thick Jamaican accent
Taura-he	Tauren		Pictoforms	Deep, Slow
Forsaken (Gutterspeak)	Forsaken	Counts as knowing Common to Basic level	Common	Guttural and Raspy
Goblin	Goblins, Merchants	Often Goblin is a recognised trade language.	Common	Thick Queens/Brooklyn accent
Low Common	Gnolls, Kobolds,	Counts as knowing Common to Basic level	None	Broken English
Demonic	Demons		Eredic	Deep and Hollow
Draconic	Dragons, some Elves		Runic	Deep and Sophisticated
Kalimag	Elementals	Serves as a sort of a Common for the Elemental realms	Runic	Depends on the Element
Najia	Naga		Darnassian	Syllabic Hissing
Ursine	Furbolg		None	Huffy and Growley
Treant	Dryads, Ancients, Sons of Cenarius		Darnassian	Creaking cracking sounds interjected in deep tones
Nerglish	Murlocs Makura		None	Garbled as though you were talking and gargling at the same time