Re: Conlangs in RPGs...

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > Just put up a webpage on possible uses (or ways to avoid uses) of conlangs
> > in RPGs:
> > http://yhl.freeservers.com/rpgs/rpglang.html
>
> Old Hyksos (http://www.valdyas.org/hyksos.html is a language of magic
> created for use in the Dutch role-playing game Queeste. Over the years,
> I've made any number of languages and scripts for roleplaying games,
> but they're not on the web. Interestingly, in the last long campaign
> I GM'ed, I used Nepali as a foreign language, not a conlang. I wanted
> to give my players the impression of fluency ;-). It was quite fun,
> and even now we sometimes say to each other 'malai thaha chaine!', or
> 'hajur'.
<intrigued look>  What do those mean in Nepali?

Heh, now that the other Korean roleplayer moved :-( I can go to using
Korean instead of bad Turkish (though for desert people, bad Turkish
might be marginally more, hmm, veritudinous?).

Your magic-language is fascinating.  If I were playing in a RPG I would
actively *want* to play a mage and learn the tongue.  How did you decide
upon the lexicon, BTW?

Mind if I link to the page as an example of a magic-language?

YHL