Ever since playing Chants of Sennaar I've thought it would be cool to write logograms for dungeon languages that players could use for clues and to communicate with otherwise hostile monsters. This post by Throne of Salt re-ignited that desire and so I threw this together today. It's very minimal and sketchy but I was pleased with how many sentences I could form. (Sorry for my terrible handwriting) Notes These are specifically aimed at my preferred style of arcade-y OD&D underworld. My envisioned use-case is in handouts (e.g. treasure maps) or as graffiti. The list of morphemes was compiled accordingly. I would like to try creating a few more sets with the same basic vocabulary. Making separate languages for Orcs, Goblins, Gnolls, etc. is too big of a lift, so I like the idea that this is a shared writing system used for different spoken languages. But I could see this working as "vulgar dungeon-ese" and another, more abstract script for "deep dungeon-ese" or something. This also…
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