besides, it's not as if we're going to write all their dialogue in Romanian
I think we had discussed that point before and agreed that it would be too much of a real pain, OOCly, for people if NPC's just spoke balok. Would be ridiculous really.
uh, who said all npcs? i said the nobles and that's what this topic is about. Not the common nps. JUST THE NOBLES. please read posts and thread titles before responding, thanks.
Seem ridiculous to me the nobles would speak common.They may know how to speak common but i think it would be looked down on by the theirs peers if they did. Only reason i mention it is because if they are being changed anyways, it would not be any extra work to make them behave more upper class rather then regular Vallaki citizens.
Nobles, more than any other NPC's would know how to speak more than one language. It'd make more sense for nobles to speak common than uneducated peasants. And the consensus was that NPC's would use common when talking to PC's. There are actually two schools of thought when it comes to languages in Ravenloft, the first one claims that characters who enter Ravenloft learn the language of the place they are brought in instantly, somewhat magically, the work of the Dark Powers. The other one is the opposite, people don't understand anything which is good for the feeling of isolation, but tends to make games a lot more painful for the players.
We more or less combined the two by having NPC's speak a common tongue that is understood by all plus their native language. It wouldn't be consistant if some NPC's spoke balok and others spoke common, so all NPC's speak common. Same thing in Dementlieu and in the other new domains.