Sending Whispers to Players in different D&D languages

[Dax Doomslayer]

Hi Folks,
I must be missing something with this. I was wondering if there is a way to send a whisper to a player in one of the drop down menu languages (i.e. orc, goblin, giant etc). I can't seem to find a way to do this. Is it my general incompetence or is there no way to do so. Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

[Andraax]

You can't. It seems kinda pointless?

[JohnD]

A whisper meant for a particular player would be either understood by them, in which case you could say something along the lines of "In Elven the guard says to you...", whereas if the PC doesn't understand your message would be "The guard says something to you, but you don't understand his words.".

[Dax Doomslayer]

Right JohnD. I was wondering if there was a way to do it so I didn't need to look at the languages or ask. Not a big deal but I was just a little surprised it didn't work that way. Thanks for the input Andraax and JohnD.

[Bidmaron]

Dax, what exactly were you expecting it to do? You send the guy a whisper, and he gets it. Are you saying you wanted to send the whisper in elvish and let the system decide whether he understands it or not? So, stepping back from meta gaming, what is going on in game? Does the guy physically walk over to him and whisper in his ear? We are just trying to understand your use case here.

Usually, whispers are metagame messages from player-to-player or dm-to-player or vice vsersa conveying information that other players' characters should not know.

[Dax Doomslayer]

Hi Bidmaron,
Actually it is a party member scouting ahead and overhearing a group of bugbears at a door. He can't see in the room but hears them talking in goblin. It's just a way to keep the rest of the players from knowing what this person hears. Not a big deal - I was just surprised that this couldn't be done. Thanks.

[Bidmaron]

I don't recall anyone ever asking this question before (but I forget what I had for lunch yesterday, so maybe that isn't saying much). An extension could probably do what you are wanting (the chat language was once an extension itself, but it was so popular that it got incorporated into CoreRPG), but I am just not sure how many folks would ever use it. You have a valid use case, though. As others have said, there are workarounds that are easy to do.

[Dax Doomslayer]

Lol - yeah I'm always the one "off the reservation" with these corner cases. No worries as it's not really a big deal. I was just wondering if I was missing something but I guess I'm not! I really appreciate the response and confirmation.

[JohnD]

Are using voice communication or is this a chat game? If voice, just open up a private room and jump over with the player in question.

[Nickademus]

I see nothing unusual about the question. If text can go into chat that is filtered by languages known, whispers should as well. It makes sense. As for why whisper in a language? When you drag a story frame entry to the portrait of a character to send the text to just them, it appears on their end as a whisper. This means that any language-based text that is sent to a player would lose its language: not what is expected.