Re: Conlangs in RPGs...

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:47:58 +0900 Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
writes:
> Just put up a webpage on possible uses (or ways to avoid uses) of
> conlangs in RPGs:
> http://yhl.freeservers.com/rpgs/rpglang.html
> It's more of a survey-of-possibilities, definitely not comprehensive
> or
> how-to, though I tried to include enough links for an interested
> roleplayer
> to get started.  If anyone here is a roleplayer-conlanger I would
> love to
> hear suggestions for other resources/links, feedback, etc.  (In
> particular,
> I haven't *seen* roleplaying-based sites on this general topic,
> though I've
> seen particular roleplaying/conlang sites as well as oodles of
> conlang-specific sites, but I'm positive they must exist somewhere.)
> Yoon Ha Lee, avid roleplayer
> http://yhl.freeservers.com
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I don't have any resources to suggest, but your webpge is great!  I don't
remember how my brother and i dealt with language when we made our own
RPG system a long time ago (which incidentally is the source for
Rokbeigalmki month names), but more recently, for the LARP group that i'm
in i devised my own Goblin language (Gáb-we or Tí-Ér'-r'e-we) to chant my
spells in, because my character, while not actually a goblin, grew up in
the "goblinoid-friendly" country of Tiere (or Tí-Ér'-r'e in Goblin).   I
actually considered abandoning it, since it was really annoying to have
to remember all the rules for what sounds change into when geminated,
which syllables are stressed, which R-sounds are which, etc.,
*especially* when creaky-voicing the entire thing, but then people told
me that they liked it so i decided to stick with it.  (and just practice
more).  In the Shadowrun campaign that i was in this past semester, the
GM was pretty realistic with languages... whenever we ventured into
Aztlan ( = much of Mexico and other areas) he kept on teasing us with
"so, do any of you speak Spanish?" until between gaming sessions i
finally spent however many karma points to learn it :-) so that there
would be more than just one person in our group who can talk.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Word making is world making."
     ~ _The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis_
          by Avivah Zornberg