Greater Translation Program
Tech power · Level 3
power-typeTechlevel3concentration
Tweaked from 5eYou already know this as 5e Tongues — This is your Tongues — same touch-to-understand-and-be-understood effect, just limited to officially 'registered' languages rather than literally any tongue. ✨
Touch a creature: it understands any registered language spoken to it and any speaker of a registered language understands it, for 1 hour.
Utility
●○○breadth · social/exploration only
TargetingSingle
Use whenbefore negotiating with an alien faction or unfamiliar species
ScalingFlat — no higher-slot scaling.
!Only covers registered languages — may not work for obscure or unregistered dialects at GM discretion.
mind-affectingdivination
Pairs witha diplomatic or social campaign · a face character build · Sending
This power grants the creature you touch the ability to understand any spoken registered language it hears. Moreover, when the target speaks, any creature that knows at least one registered language and can hear the target understands what it says.
- Casting Period
- 1 action
- Range
- Touch
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Concentration
- No