
Many will be equally as content to talk to you, whether it’s for helpful or manipulative reasons. Of course, not all dragons are prone to attack you. True to its name, dragons are a possible enemy you’ll encounter in Dungeons and Dragons.

Understanding the languages of your enemies will come in handy. Expect to spend several weeks or more in-game (depending on your Intelligence stat) learning the language. Just like in real life, learning a language in-game takes time, though. Assuming your DM permits it, you can seek out a speaker of the language you wish to learn and ask them to train you in your downtime. Once you’ve finished creating your character and started playing, learning languages becomes a process.
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It’s called Linguist, and it will allow you to learn three additional languages. Rogues may also learn the Thieves’ Cant, a language that combines the dialects and terms from other languages.Īdditionally, there’s a feat that may help you with learning languages if your goal is to learn as many as possible. As an example, Druids learn Druidic, a language that is initially restricted only to Druids. Particular classes sometimes grant you access to languages, too. Choosing certain backgrounds may also give you additional languages to select. Your character’s race will indicate the languages you start off with automatically elves, for instance, will know Elvish. It is also the edition I’ve played more recently.įor the most part, you get your languages during character creation.

All this discussion of languages gives us one question to be answered: how do you learn them? To answer that question, I’ll be looking at the rules as according to fifth edition, as that’s the one played more often these days.
