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Edit: This thread is now about humans and whether or not they suck
Game mechanics. Canonically every single race with greater intelligence than a Kobold can speak fluent common. We can’t in game because reasons.
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Wish we got a lore explanation to this and an actual acknowledgement by Blizzard. What are the origins of Common then, because it seems to be an ancient language, older than the humans.
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Same reasons most aliens speak English.
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It’s a relic of DnD. Every single race with a high enough intelligence score in DnD can speak common playable or non-playable. Then every single race other than Humans in the vast majority of cases will have their own language that they can speak as well.
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Yeah, but in DnD isn’t that a case of Humans being the most common race in the generic setting? That Common is a human-originated language that is used because humans apparently breed like rabbits only outdone by goblins in DnD?
To be honest I avoid humans as much as possible in any fantasy setting. So I don’t know the lore behind really anything about Humans. They’re the basic normie race for people with a passing interest in fantasy. I just always assumed it was for ease of writing out stories or playing the game. Would be kind of annoying to have a group of multi-cultural heroes but none of them speak the same tongue.
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You and me both, Sy. Never played a human in DnD and never will.
Hell yeah brother.
Same reason the tauren automatically knew orcish the day that the orcs arrived.
Speech is generally treated as being spoken in some kind of universal language that all speech-capable races can understand. To the point that proto-dragons, some of whom had just recently become intelligent enough to develop language, spontaneously started speaking and understanding broken Common and could communicate with Tyr instead of creating their own growly roar language.
The language barrier between the factions only exists to limit communication between the two halves of the playerbase. Even then it has loosened somewhat.
The Warcraft movie had an interpretation of the world that had a more realistic approach to language, which I thought was good world building. The orcs and humans couldn’t speak each other’s languages and had to rely on a translator who knew orcish, interacted with humans, and was established earlier to be very good with language.
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If you think this, then you have no idea why people play Humans.
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People play Humans because it’s piss easy to xerox your own face onto a character and call it a day. It’s the core of why I say a passing interest in fantasy. Why would I want to be me when I could get immersed in the head space of a Kaldorei?
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Or Japanese.
There’s an anime right now called Appare-Ranman that is set in Los Angeles with a premise of a cross-country race to New York, with Native American characters, characters from England, and of course all the Americans, but with the two main characters being from Japan, everyone in the setting speaks fluent Japanese when in the U.S. apparently.
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It only took 10 replies for my random poop-post to celebrate resubbing turn into an argument about humans
I love this forum
See also Attack on Titan.
Literally only 2 Asian people in the entire setting for most of the story. Everybody has European (notably German) names.
Everybody talks Japanese.
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The scarlet’s been typing for 14 minutes straight.
Chalk it up to a cornerstone of the genre. It bothers me a bit too.
Though I am more troubled/annoyed by the seeming free flow of information, and the blase manner in which NPCs treat fantastical happenings in their world. The only time I felt they did this remotely well was MoP where both NPCs as well as the story on the whole had the appropriate level of wonder at discovering a new continent that had been hidden for 10000 years.
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It’s scaring me.
At least with Attack on Titan being set on an fantasy world different from ours you can just pretend they’re speaking a fantasy language and just being presented in whatever dub language we’re watching it in for our convenience.
Appare-Ranman is just straight up set in the U.S…
The great wall of human potential inc.