Timeline for What magic can decipher Linguist ciphers?
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| Mar 18, 2023 at 20:59 | comment | added | Drejzer | I'd say Comprehend Languages wouldn't work. CL seems to work like Google Translate. What would you get if you used CL to read "Гурл'ир сныыра сбэ бхэ гэнц"? It most likely would be "Gurl'ir snyyra sbe bhe genc" because that's the literal meaning of that text. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:23 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Oct 3, 2016 at 18:07 | history | edited | UrhoKarila | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clairfying an important point
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| Oct 3, 2016 at 18:00 | comment | added | Slagmoth | "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" :) | |
| Oct 3, 2016 at 17:45 | history | edited | UrhoKarila | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Went to wikipedia to check the definition of a cipher, and fell down a rabbit hole.
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| Oct 3, 2016 at 17:31 | comment | added | Spoo | So you could use it to decode the literal meaning of a secret message (provided its based on a language) but you could not then take the literal meaning of the secret language and further on use it to decode the actual messages meaning and intent. | |
| Oct 3, 2016 at 17:31 | comment | added | Spoo | Again, it says you know the literal meaning. It does not say you can use it to determine the literal decoded meaning. | |
| Oct 3, 2016 at 17:21 | comment | added | Slagmoth | I am also a Developer and study linguistics and don't even like Thieve's Cant as it would vary from town to town and even race to race, so I hear you. :) | |
| Oct 3, 2016 at 17:17 | comment | added | UrhoKarila | As a CS grad who's had classes in modern cryptography, of course, I have major objections to how 5e handles these ciphers because that's simply not how it works (in a modern setting). I feel like I gave up my right to complain as soon as I accepted that magic was justified, however. | |
| Oct 3, 2016 at 17:15 | history | answered | UrhoKarila | CC BY-SA 3.0 |