Is the Gift of Tongues worth it?

[ArcanaFTW]

See above, I hate ECL and I would like to know before taking it.

[Winter83]

All the greatest linguists I've encountered in game had this. They learned languages really fast.

[Ecstatic]

From experience, my Gift of Tongues character with moderate intelligence seemed to pick up languages at a rate comparable to my wizard, so I would guess that the bonus is significant. Never tried stacking it on a high int character though.

[The Rambling Midget]

If you have 18+ INT, then yeah, totally worth it. That goes double if you're a Rakshasa. Otherwise, you'll cap out on languages pretty quickly.

[Rattus_norvegicus99]

I've had a wizard, super high int with the gift and yeah, its worth it, IF you have a desire or need to speak many languages.

[Realoms]

If you're a wizard or other high INT character, it may be worth it because you can learn quite a lot of the languages. On the other hand, your INT is so high it's likely unnecessary.

Low INT, as TRM said- probably not because the cap will get you fast.

But it adds an approximate, effective +6 to your int mod for the sake of language learning speed.

[The Rambling Midget]

The other issue is that languages seem to have gone out of style. Three or four years ago, one of my characters learned a language purely through immersion. Nowadays, not only does nobody teach languages, maybe one in a hundred characters even uses them.

Here, I speak of surface languages, of course. If you're a surfacer trying to learn UD languages by stealthing, you'll probably have a lot more luck.

[Nitro]

I recall reading on the old forum that it applies an invisible +12 to your INT for the purpose of tracking how quickly you learn languages.