Gift of Tongues - Universal Language Learning

[magistrasa]

As it is, you can only learn languages if you have a phrasebook, if you're of a certain race, or if you have a class. Gift of Tongues lets you learn more languages, and faster, but there's always going to be a few that can't be learned outside of taking a class, or being a drow.

I think it would be interesting if people with the Gift of Tongues could learn language through exposure - no need for phrasebooks whatsoever - which would open them up to the option of learning the class/race exclusives: Animal Language, Thieves' Cant, and Sign Language. It'd go a long way towards some fun avenues for disguise and infiltration roleplay, since people tend to jump to conclusions whenever they think they know what class or race you are.

[Irongron]

I don't want to remove phrasebooks, or to allow the 'hiidden' languages to be more easily learned.

Rejected.