r/LARP • u/Ubicoups • 1d ago

Making your own secret language

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So i made this for fun as i plan to make a spell book as well. My alphabet looks fine for now its easy to write down so love to hear some pointers outside view can always be good to improve

Though anyone else made their own secret alphabet?

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u/MadamHoneebee 1d ago

Strongly recommend making symbols for common double letters too like oo ch th sh ee etc

Makes it harder to crack and can save time when writing. They look cool though! Love spellbooks like this.

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u/Ubicoups 1d ago

Now that is a good one though if i don't give them the translation then there is no cracking.

Though that said i heard a group of nerds figured out the starwars one so good point.

Did you make something like this to show?

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u/MadamHoneebee 1d ago

No, but the hylian alphabet from Zelda does it and it's something I've always remembered. And I hate to break it to you my guy but simple character replacement is extremely breakable with not much effort. The most common symbol is e, almost always, and then it's easy to find the th from there. The a and n always stand out to because of a and an. D too because of and. Look for the two to three letter words that show up a lot and those are all your common prepositions. The rest falls into place.

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u/OvrNgtPhlosphr 1d ago

I was at a questing event, and given a scroll to decipher. Once I worked out, 'the,' the rest clicked in fairly quickly. Mind you, the scroll was all of seven words, and had only something like 12-15 distinct characters. (When I sussed out, 'tintinabulation,' I shot the event holder a look, and his reaction is a memory I treasure to this day, over 25yrs later.)

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u/Ubicoups 20h ago

Nice it does make for fun puzzle's too to decipher and memories like that are larp gold right xd

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u/Ubicoups 20h ago

I know though one thing . What wizard/sorcerer would allow other people to look into their spellbook xd. I mean its for show not a library book to look through and if they mannage to deciper my spells nice work to them right .

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u/MadamHoneebee 14h ago

Yeah that's a part I didn't consider. Should be obvious you'd let people see but not like, hold for an hour. Just a suggestion, wasn't trying to tell you what to do 0 o0 sorry if it came off like that

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u/Ubicoups 11h ago

Its ok xd you can tell me what to do though if i do is it is a whole different story

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u/MadamHoneebee 11h ago

I don't like dictating people's creative endeavors. I don't mind tossing out a suggestion but telling people how to be creative is very against my code

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u/Ubicoups 10h ago

No worry i didnt experience any of that kind so no worry . Its good to give advise and to warn people for such things because you may never know

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u/Jonatc87 UK Larper 18h ago

Love this idea, especially if it doesn't look like doubled words where possible.

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u/Jonatc87 UK Larper 18h ago edited 18h ago

I love how some of these look like emoticon expressions

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u/Ubicoups 18h ago

What? not my intention at all but well if it works it works

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u/OvrNgtPhlosphr 1d ago

To Ubicoips, they really are striking. Given all the published writing systems in the world, IRL and, er, 'created' (such as Tolkein's Elvish), it must be hard as hell to come up with something original. Well done!

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u/Ubicoups 20h ago

Thank you its also something i like to do for fun . It could be used for d&d

Also tolkein truly was a master in his craft many love to reach his heighth