# D & D on the Straight Dope setup thread. (In Middle Earth FA63)

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**Created:** [February 26, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-on-the-straight-dope-setup-thread-in-middle-earth-fa63/439276 "2008-02-26T20:17:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-on-the-straight-dope-setup-thread-in-middle-earth-fa63/439276/1447 "2009-01-21T14:46:34Z")

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> [@Middle Earth FA63 D&D Game: Fifth Adventure - War in Goblin Gate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-earth-fa63-d-d-game-fifth-adventure-war-in-goblin-gate/475898/637):
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> **How does knowledge of languages work in this system? I know in 3.5 each race and some classes had choices of additional languages they commonly know, and really any character could choose any language they wanted to mechanics-wise if the GM allowed it.**

Languages are treated unlike 3.5 or AD&D 1st Ed. The Dwarves are both veterans of Goblin wars and have some goblin but goblins speak many different dialects and even languages and use a corrupt, base dialect of Westron to communicate. Most goblins know some Westron.

Gil-Gandel knows most of the local (western) goblin languages and dialects as a bard. Miron knows some, mostly those of Mordor. Bitur is actually reasonably familiar with the local Goblin Gate and Gundabad variants but not Moria. Gwaelur is stronger with some Mordor variants and Moria.

The Hobbits and Humans know none. Not even Brin.

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