Linguistics

==Linguistics==
The following are changes to the Linguistics skill from its listing in Paizo material.
===Rule Changes===
Learning Languages
Whenever you would learn a new language (such as from putting a rank into Linguistics, or taking the Cosmopolitan feat), you instead gain a single Language Point, hereafter referred to as LP.
To learn a language, you must meet its prerequisites and spend at least one week studying it in certain conditions. At the end of this week, you may spend LP equal to its LP cost make a Learn Language Check. The DC of a Learn Language Check is (1d20 + your Linguistics bonus + the number of weeks you have spent studying that language + two times the number of related languages you speak). Success means you can now freely speak that language, and read and write in it, if it has a written form. Failure refunds your LP, but means you cannot attempt to learn that language again until you spend another week studying it or gained another rank in Linguistics.
At 1st level, you gain a number of LP equal to (your Int modifier), and may spend these LP and any you get from ranks in Linguistics without making learn language checks during character creation. Languages gained from your culture are learned automatically and do not cost any LP.
See Languages.
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