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Just a friendly reminder to give everyone a chance that tries to roleplay with you, despite their quality of writing (unless of course they’re just being trolls or abusive, but that’s another thing entirely). 

If someone has the courage to walk up and throw roleplay at you, it really is the least you can do to roleplay with them in return.  Time and time again I’ve experienced amazing roleplay with people some might not give the time of day due to poor spelling, grammar, etc.  A person’s ability to know lore, as well as creating a fun scene and character has absolutely zero to do with their ability to write flawless and in multiple paragraphs. Some people simply struggle with spelling or grammar, some have learning disabilities, and some may not even know English all that well. None of those have any bearing on their ability to roleplay, just their ability to write.

Last night an example of this prompted me to write this up.  Standing around with @morghannah and roleplaying, an injured paladin came running up seeking healing. His writing was awful. We didn’t shy away and instead our characters helped take him to the Cathedral to find a priest at his character’s request.  From there it became hilarious as his character recalled how he’d been injured (his ‘profane desire and mating’ with a Death Knight led to it).  After he was healed, all the characters returned to the Reinhardt clinic where he began to recall the story of his life to Conwulf.  I could tell he absolutely could not wait to tell someone his character’s backstory, and our characters listened. His lore and story was GOOD. He’d put a lot of thought into it. After that, his character got up and began to profusely thank our characters for being there for him, which transitioned OOCly as he confessed he’d seen Reinhardt members roleplaying for a while now and he never had the courage to approach because his English is terrible, he’s new to roleplaying, and everyone writes so well.  We made his day.   Not only that, we had a lot of fun, laughs, and got development for our own characters in the process. 

Vulgar is a conlang (constructed/fictional language) generator created to help literally generate a language for you. No, really. No tricks, and it’s super simple to use. It’s my favourite tool right now for writing fantasy, even as someone who loves creating his own languages, it’s an amazing starting point.

Want a random conlang, straight away, with no prep or fuss? Just visit http://vulgarlang.com/index.html and click “Generate New Conlang”… and that’s it. Scroll down and through your brand new, generated, completely original conlang. 

If you’re a little more advanced in terms of conlanging and want to specify IP phonemes to be used, you can add them too, but even with no knowledge of linguistics you can create a language at the click of your fingers.

This version of Vulgar is completely free, sure…. but! the guy who created it has not only made an amazing thing (which I repeat, is absolutely free at it’s most basic point), but is also planning on updating it more and more!

Under the “Buy” tab on the Vulgar website, he links to his email, where you can offer to pay for the full version of Vulgar, which is a total steal right now at a sale price of only nineteen dollars. Considering professional conlangers and linguists could charge you, like, a metric fuck ton of money for the same data you’re getting here for just nineteen, that’s a major steal.

Not to mention, buying the alpha build now gives you free access to all of it’s updated versions, which I can guarantee are just going to get better and better! I’ve already bought it and I adore it, and this is a tool the likes of which we in the conlang community have never seen in such an awesome way.