Translation Program
Tech power · Level 1
power-typeTechlevel1concentration
Tweaked from 5eYou already know this as 5e Comprehend Languages — It's your Comprehend Languages — same read/understand-any-language effect, just reskinned as tech that needs your tech focus and only works on registered languages (and reach replaces touch for written text). ✨
For 1 hour you understand any spoken registered language and can read any written language within reach of its surface.
Utility
●●○breadth · campaign dependent
TargetingSelf
Use whenencountering a foreign language in dialogue, documents, or signage
ScalingFlat — no higher-slot scaling.
!Does not decode secret messages or decipher non-language glyphs like ancient Sith runes.
divinationmind-affecting
Pairs withmultilingual encounter-heavy campaigns · a face character or social build · exploration-focused playstyles
For the duration, you understand the literal meaning of any spoken registered language that you hear, as long as you have your tech focus. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be within reach of the surface on which the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text.
This power doesn't decode secret messages in a text, nor does it interpret a glyph, such as an ancient Sith rune, that isn't part of a written language.
- Casting Period
- 1 action
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Concentration
- No