Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General D&D alphabets in the game and what they're hiding!

Oh wow! This is great!

Now I'm all intrigued! I remember that contract being held up at one point, and a few others, but didn't know they were legit like that!

This is maybe the first game when they could pull off Languages in a way that seems fun.

Secret Druidic Ogham is one I've always wanted to see. They got the perfect set up for it. I half expect to get Dwarven runes and Elvish runes, and the like, but the more esoteric stuff is cool. We do get those Gith tablets and all the speak with animals and speak with the dead, but the written stuff with glyphs and scrawl could take it next level.

That quill and inkwell we find right at the start on the beach hasn't really been put to use in any of my playthroughs. Bit of a tease there, like the rope I guess, but they could have whole system of secret dialogues and messages in bottles and such. I'd love if they ever do scribing scrolls and grimoires or enchanting to see some of these options. Or for the infernal and abyssal tongues to have some crazy sound to that like they did for Malebolgia's minions in the Spawn cartoons. "You may feel some pain..." heheh

Another thing that would be cool as all getup, is if they hired someone who can do a riff on common, but done completely in sign. Like to mocap them moving the hands and such. Or even just for some simple stuff like quick basic communications or commands. That way when everyone is sneaking or silenced they could use that instead of speech. Probably a little there would go a long long way just to making gestural and idling animations a thing we could sort of play around with on the fly.

Anyhow, good work cracking the Linear B on that one!
Now I'll definitely have to pay more attention hehe