Language Dice for OSE
I have a post about using GLOG spell dice for languages! Here's my port of it to OSE!
At character creation, determine your Language Dice pool. This is determined by your intelligence score, according to the following table (replacing the table for Intelligence in the Player's Book).
| INT | # of Language Dice |
|---|---|
| 3 | 0 |
| 4-5 | 1 |
| 6-8 | 2 |
| 9-12 | 3 |
| 13-15 | 4 |
| 16-17 | 5 |
| 18 | 6 |
When a PC encounters a language, they may roll their Language Dice to see if they know it. The result depends on the number of 1s rolled. Any 6s rolled in this process are removed from the pool.
| # of 1s | Spoken Fluency | Written Fluency |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | None | None |
| 1 | Limited | None |
| 2 | Limited | Limited |
| 3 | Fluent | Limited |
| 4 | Fluent | Fluent |
| 5 | Native | Fluent |
Archaic or obscure languages require an additional success.
PCs may replenish their pool by one by spending at least one month of downtime studying languages. They may also upgrade their fluency of a language they've already rolled for by one level by spending a number of months in study equal to their current level.