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#1 Fralex Sep 04, 2014 20:20:26	On page 73 of the Player's Handbook, there's an illustration of a hanging banner with some writing in Runic at the bottom. I was curious what it said, so I referred to a sticky note I always KNEW would come in handy one of these days that listed all the runes and their English alphabete translations. In case anyone else was wondering what it said: "This is Photoshop’s version of Lorem Ipsum. Proin gravida nibh vel velit auctor aliquet. Aenean sollicitudin, lorem quis bibendum auctor, nisi elit consequat ipsum, nec sagittis" For those who don't know, "Lorem Ipsum" is the name for a string of vaguely Latin-sounding gibberish used when someone wants to fill up an area with text but doesn't care what it says. Who knew they had already started using Photoshop to draw their banners in medieval times?
#2 Grazel Sep 04, 2014 20:58:25	Fralex wrote:
#3 pilgaard Sep 04, 2014 23:08:53	Nice . Thanks for providing the translations.
#4 DemoMonkey Sep 05, 2014 8:31:31	I was really hoping it translated to "Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine".
#5 alienux Sep 05, 2014 8:23:23	DemoMonkey wrote:
#6 awaken_D_M_golem Sep 09, 2014 15:35:48	What obscurities ?!     So it goes --- Runic: This is Photoshop’s version of Lorem Ipsum.   Then it goes --- Runic + Latin: Urban designers or originator of the economic crisis. I really health care, lorem any man to drink in the author, the only problem click it, or arrows.   Somebody wanna clean up the Latin?     And does somebody wanna take credit for putting this in the PHB?
#7 Grazel Sep 09, 2014 20:19:05	That is the cleaned up Latin, the point of Lorem Ipsum is that it's latin words at semi-random, it's not supposed to make sense and is only filler text. I find it funny that the Latin used comes accross as a mix of political statement and sexual innuendo.   From Wikipedia's entry on Lorem Ipsum: The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed such that it is nonsensical, improper Latin
#8 Dreamstryder Sep 10, 2014 0:52:06	You'd think, knowing it might grace the main instruction book of the end-all edition of a prominent game for a bunch of "nerds", that they'd put a secret message in there.
#9 Artifact Sep 10, 2014 0:57:52	The secret msg for nerds can be found in the disclaimer.  Very, very fine print for these old eyes .