<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>And in terms of Languages, I am going to assume that all of you have both your native language and Westron (Latin) as a default at Language 10 level - no points will need to be spent on these. Only if you want other languages will you need to buy them, and as mentioned above, writing will also need to be bought.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Levels for languages are: -</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color:
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4 (0.5 pt).</b><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Equivalent to a 0+ score
on the Foreign Service Institute proficiency scale.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You recognize the language when you hear it,
understand important commands (Stop!), know a few useful phrases (“How much
does it cost?”, “Do you speak Esperanto?”), and can follow simple replies
(“Five credits”, “No”.).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You cannot
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6 (1 pt)</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>FSI 1.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You could survive in the language.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If your listeners are patient, and speak
slowly and simply, you can get directions, find the time or date, order a meal,
rent a hotel room, buy groceries or a train ticket, and answer basic questions
such as: “What is your job, birthday, nationality, marital status, current
address, reason for being in our country...?”</div>
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purposes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You understand clear
conversation with only an occasional need to ask for a definition.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You can usually make yourself understood,
though your speech is hesitant and heavily accented, your grammar is poor, and
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10<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(4 pt).</b><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>FSI 3.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Practical fluency.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You have no
trouble understanding clear conversation, and can follow technical material
with a little effort (assuming you could follow it in your native language!).
You can use the language for most things you can do in your native language
without special preparation - carry on conversation, study skills, grovel
properly, insult someone, propose marriage....<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Your accent is obvious but not particularly thick, and your grammatical
errors are never bad enough to prevent understanding and only rarely
embarrassing.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If you are literate, you
can read newspapers, novels and similar material with understanding. Poetry,
slang or other nonstandard usage can still give you trouble.</div>
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12<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(8 pt).</b><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>FSI 4+.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>In casual speech you have a slight accent, and make an occasional
mistake, but you can pass for a native in short, formal situations like a
checkpoint questioning.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You understand
poetry, literature and other artistic uses of the language, and can follow
current slang, colloquialisms and cultural references.</div>
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14<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(12 pt).</b><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>FSI 5.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>You have a second native language.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>You automatically think in the language when using it regularly, can use
it to do mental arithmetic and regularly dream in it.</div>
<div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span> <br></span></div><div>If you are interested in other languages, let me know and I can provide a listing. <br><br></div><div>--<br>Regards,</div><div><br><br></div><div>Michael Cole<br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, 7 December 2013 3:15 PM, Michael Cole <mcole222@yahoo.com.au> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8574786006"><div><div
style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><span>No longer used.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>Take a Phonetic Script skill (either Angerthas (runic) or Tengwar (cursive letters)) to be able to read and write in a language that you have. You would almost certainly have Script (Tengwar) - you would probably only have Script (Angerthas) if you were dealing with stone-masons or dwarves a lot.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br
clear="none"><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>In terms of Points, for scripts: -</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">
</div><div class="yiv8574786006MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="">§<span style="font:7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><b style=""><span style="">Phonetic Script 4
(0.25 pts)</span></b><span style=""><span style=""> </span>You know the shapes and
conventional order of the letters, can follow instructions like `Push the
button marked A', can sound out isolated words, and can write your name or
other simple words or phrases you have practiced in advance.</span></div>
<div class="yiv8574786006MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="">§<span style="font:7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><b style=""><span style="">Phonetic Script 6 (.5
pt)<span style=""> </span></span></b><span style="">You can read and understand simple connected text,
albeit very slowly (under 30 wpm).<span style="">
</span>Complicated sentences are beyond your ability to read and understand at
the same time, though you can read them aloud for others to interpret.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style=""><span style="">Phonetic Script 8<span style=""> </span>(1 pt)</span></b><span style=""><span style=""> </span>You read
slowly (under 120 wpm) and need to make an IQ roll to understand texts with a
complex structure, such as technical specs, legal documents, or poetry.</span></div>
<div class="yiv8574786006MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="">§<span style="font:7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><b style=""><span style="">Phonetic Script 10 (2
pt)</span></b><span style=""><span style=""> </span>You read as fast as you can speak (about 180
words per minute) and understand any written material you could follow if it
were spoken aloud.<span style=""> </span>This is the level
taught by most basic literacy programs or primary schools, and the level of
most well educated readers before the spread of printing.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><b style=""><span style="">Phonetic Script 12 (4
pts)</span></b><span style=""><span style=""> </span>You read silently, and faster than you can
speak. Reading
does not require any special effort, and can be carried on while performing
some other light activity.<span style=""> </span>This is the
level of literacy taught by modern school systems.</span></div>
<div class="yiv8574786006MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="">§<span style="font:7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><b style=""><span style="">Phonetic Script 14 (8
pt)</span></b><span style=""><span style=""> </span>You read very quickly, and are familiar with
many variant scripts and orthographies.</span></div>
<div></div><div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div>--<br clear="none">Regards,</div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div>Michael Cole<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv8574786006yqt1060915190" id="yiv8574786006yqt14766"><div class="yiv8574786006yahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, 7 December 2013 2:42 PM, Karl David Brown <karl@rpgreview.net> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px;"> <div class="yiv8574786006y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8574786006"><div><div>What about literacy ? Default or an advantage?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Karl D. Brown BSc
(Hon) MPhil<div>PhD Candidate & Senior Research Assistant</div><div>Surgical Research Unit</div><div>Centre for Eye Research Australia </div></div><div class="yiv8574786006yqt1914518342" id="yiv8574786006yqt58664"><div><br clear="none">On 7 Dec 2013, at 11:48, Michael Cole <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mcole222@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:mcole222@yahoo.com.au">mcole222@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;">Karl,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I use a software package - Gurps Guru. <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.sjgames.com/gameaids/gurps/GURU1_1.zip">http://www.sjgames.com/gameaids/gurps/GURU1_1.zip</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">There are some sheets here - <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
target="_blank" href="http://www.sjgames.com/general/gm-aids.html">http://www.sjgames.com/general/gm-aids.html</a> - I haven't used any of them.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In terms of the elf - are
you Sindar or Noldor - different packages.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In brief, it will be roughly: -<br clear="none">DX + 1, [IQ + 1 for Noldor], Alertness +2, Aligned to Good, Attractive Appearance, Disease Resistance, Enemy - Sauronic Creatures, Less Sleep, Star Sight, Musical Ability, Rapid Healing, Telescopic Vision, Temperature Tolerance, Unaging. Roughly 30-40 pts, but I'll finalise the details this afternoon.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">For Liz' benefit, the Dwarf package is 40 pts: -<br clear="none">ST+1, DX-1, HT+2, Chauvinistic, Extended Lifespan, Extra Encumbrance, Extra Fatigue (x2), Hard to Kill, Longevity, Preference for Good, Proud,
Reduced Move, Reduced Jumping, (Racial) Toughness.<br clear="none">Quirks - Never Share Beards, Intolerance for Orcs, Suspicious of Elves and Goblins.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div> </div><div>--<br clear="none">Regards,</div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div>Michael Cole<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv8574786006yahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, 7 December 2013 10:04 AM, "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:karl@rpgreview.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:karl@rpgreview.net">karl@rpgreview.net</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
ymailto="mailto:karl@rpgreview.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:karl@rpgreview.net">karl@rpgreview.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px;"> <div class="yiv8574786006y_msg_container">Just quickly,<br clear="none">Anyone have a good form-fillable gurps 3rd character sheet?<br clear="none">Michael, can you post the details of the elf
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