Your Table Doesn't Play in English

Picture a table in Munich. Five friends, a Thursday night, a campaign two years deep. The whole session happens in German: the threats, the bad accents, the argument about whether the paladin’s oath covers arson. Then the recap arrives, and it reads like a BBC correspondent summarizing their game from across the channel. If you play D&D in German, French, Portuguese, or anything else that gets called a “non-English market” in a planning doc, you already know this experience. Every tool in this hobby assumes your table speaks English. Character builders, VTT interfaces, AI note-takers: English in, English out, and if your session happens to be in another language, you get whatever falls out of the machine. ...

September 15, 2026 · 5 min · Loracle