GnomeWorks
Adventurer
KB - could you be more specific about communications aids? Also, how do you plan on going about attempting to collect information (ie, going through taverns, talking to people on the street, going to merchants' shops, etc)?
Kahuna Burger said:(ooc: scrolls of both animal messenger and wispering wind would be possibilities for this plan, and animal messenger is on the ranger list as well as the bard, but it would require a caster level check. A feather token: bird would do the trick without a roll but is more expensive. Wands of the two spells don't seem to be standard, though one would think items of this nature would be in large demand in a port city.)