Casting languages

[Baron Hazard]

Had a PC that used warcraft Orcish. XD

[Taran]

Had a PC that used warcraft Orcish. XD

Yug yug

[Melendwyr]

I've had people using Quenya (was already fluent in Sindarin, so that wasn't an option) and a constructed language.

[Starjammer]

I once devised a system of onomatopoeic sound effects, like KA-POW! or KER-SPLAT! (Yeah, like '60's Batman.)  The prefixes were specific to the element being invoked and the suffixes were the descriptive verbs. I could even pull spells on the fly just by knowing which two sounds to mate up with each other.

[solbergb]

If I was a wizard it would be Russian.  Most folks I know it would be French, although my wife would go with Latin (taking high-school language courses and never using it for 30 years will put you just about in the right place for pseudo-language magic).

Well, either that or a computer language.  Except I either know them too well or not well enough.   I've met some folks that might have gone with Esperanto.

[Quantus]

Pseudo-versions of Something, but never devoted enough to get really particular.  Mostly I make up words whose roots sound like the correct topic, which means they tend toward latin-sounds.  But I've crammed enough anime in my brain that sometimes Ill go for a more eastern feel. 

Though honestly I prefer non-verbal triggers for spells, just to break from the classics. 

[Haru]

Though honestly I prefer non-verbal triggers for spells, just to break from the classics.

How about a wizard casting in sign language?

[Quantus]

Should work great, Id think, so long as they dont actually try to talk to deaf people

[Haru]

Well, you could change the signs so they are similar but not exactly the words you want to use.

[Cadd]

How about a wizard casting in sign language?

Ok, that's my next spellcasters magic-language! Awesome idea!

My baby warden casts in Russian, just for the feeling of force in the language

[Quantus]

Well, you could change the signs so they are similar but not exactly the words you want to use.

Hell, you could probably train it up so it only counted while you were wearing a certain pair of Gloves or some such.  In fact, you could have several sets of gloves as focii for different spells/fields.  Like a Fire Magic set, an Illusion set, etc.