Re: Conlangs in RPGs...

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
>
> 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.)
>
> Also, as a note, I leave for the U.S. tomorrow, so will probably be out of
> it for a while.  I do expect to have lots of catchup conlang reading waiting
> for me when I'm back in the swing of things...:-)
>
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'.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org