New official language fonts for 5E

[Moon Wizard]

For those that have purchased the Basic Rules, Player's Handbook, Player's Customization Pack or Lost Mines of Phandelver official products from the store, we got permission to include the official language fonts as an extension you can enable in your campaign. The fonts included in the 5E ruleset by default are ones available freely online that are similar. Official support for speaking in different languages (including different fonts) is coming in v3.1.3.

Cheers,
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[epithet]

That's more than a little bit awesome.

[The Rouse]

Nice!

Will this be translatable to only those PCs who list the language as a language on the character sheet? Can two elves speak elvish to another with out the dwarf knowing they are talking smack about him, if he doesn't know elvish?

[Moon Wizard]

The Rouse,

Yes, this is how it works.

If the none of the player's characters can speak the language in question, then the text will be scrambled before display (in either the default chat font or the font defined for the language).
If the language has a custom font defined, the translated text will be displayed as well (if at least one of the player's characters can understand).

Regards,
JPG

[Zacchaeus]

Nice!

Will this be translatable to only those PCs who list the language as a language on the character sheet? Can two elves speak elvish to another with out the dwarf knowing they are talking smack about him, if he doesn't know elvish?

Why on earth would elves be talking smack about a Dwarf? :)

[whiteTiki]

This is Awesome!!!
Great work and thank you guys! Can't wait for the official 3.1.3 release.

This will really save me a lot of DM preparation time, as I was doing this before (The translations are in spanish):

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After some Photoshop I upload them to the Images & Maps Section, then create a note with a link to this image and share it with the players.

[ddavison]

Those are great hand-outs.

[The Rouse]

Why on earth would elves be talking smack about a Dwarf? :)

Why wouldn't they...have you ever seen a dwarf? Horrible, smelly nasty things, who drink too much and talk too loud.

[The Rouse]

Nice role-play improvement!

[GunnarGreybeard]

Another reason for me to run my next campaign in text chat.

[kane280484]

Awesome. Since we talk about odd languages here: Is there a guide somewhere how can I set up Polish font in FG?

[damned]

as in for things other than "chat"?

[kane280484]

Chat would be ok, other things are not necessary, but one letter in Polish sometimes makes different meaning, thus I wonder is it possible to set up Polish chars in chat.

[Moon Wizard]

It would require an extension to replace all the fonts in the ruleset with Polish versions.

Regards,
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[Trenloe]

Here's an example extension that replaces some FG fonts, you could modify this to use Polish True Type Fonts (TTF): https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?25600-Using-FG-at-the-tabletop&p=227962&viewfull=1#post227962

[demonsbane]

This is Awesome!!!
This will really save me a lot of DM preparation time, as I was doing this before (The translations are in spanish):


Now I can read your glyphs! ;-)


Another reason for me to run my next campaign in text chat.

My preferred mode as well.

[rob2e]

There seems to be two selections for this extension? Regular and (FR)? Is that French? What is that?

[Redemption77]

FR Im pretty sure is referring to Forgotten Realms

[rob2e]

Ah, so fonts are different in Forgotten Realms than in "Regular" D&D?

[Zacchaeus]

Ah, so fonts are different in Forgotten Realms than in "Regular" D&D?

Indeed.

[Moon Wizard]

Yes, straight from Wizards of the Coast, there are different font sets for standard D&D vs. Forgotten Realms D&D. I read the official font usage guidelines.

Regards,
JPG

[rob2e]

I see. OK cool.

[LordEntrails]

Moon,
Is there a way to use the language capability in story entries? I though that if I put the language in as the speaker, it might do it, but at least for all of the entries I've tried so far these doesn't work. I'd like it so that I can create text entries that have a language associated with them, that way when I click them into chat, it gets converted etc.

Here's a pic of what I was hoping, but how it shows up in chat.
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[ddavison]

You can't pre-encode it within your story entries. The best you can do at this time is to assign a speaker (the name of the NPC still), manually select the text from the dropdown and then click on the speech bubble and it will render it to chat in that language. Perhaps you could put a DM note right above it to remind you which language to set.

[LordEntrails]

Ok Doug, thanks for the info.

[TMO]

You can't pre-encode it within your story entries. The best you can do at this time is to assign a speaker (the name of the NPC still), manually select the text from the dropdown and then click on the speech bubble and it will render it to chat in that language. Perhaps you could put a DM note right above it to remind you which language to set.

I see, so I can put anything I want as the assigned speaker, correct? It seems so based on my quick test. I thought the assigned speaker had to be an actual NPC in the game. But it appears like I could simply put the word "scroll" and then follow your instructions. Nice!

[Zacchaeus]

I see, so I can put anything I want as the assigned speaker, correct? It seems so based on my quick test. I thought the assigned speaker had to be an actual NPC in the game. But it appears like I could simply put the word "scroll" and then follow your instructions. Nice!

Yes, the output to chat is whatever you place as the speaker in the text frame within the story. You can also have the speaker be whatever character you have selected in the Combat Tracker if you select the option 'select GM voice to Active CT'. You can then change the language and have that character speak in that language.