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<blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 6675549" data-attributes="member: 53176">The Awakened Mind ability, Psychic Mind, explicitly does not need a language at all for you to communicate into their head. And quite frankly, I have never liked the &quot;voice in your head&quot; approach to telepathy. It's so boring, you have a direct connection to something's mind, you shouldn't be forced to use the medium of words. You should beam raw ideas, sensory input, and emotions instead.However, it should be obvious it is coming from you, even if you aren't &quot;talking.&quot;For the target to respond, they need to be able to understand a language. This is one of those things I would interpret as being &quot;The capacity to engage in the exchange of information&quot; rather than the hard rule of &quot;does it have a language in the stat block?&quot; Mostly because I think it would be fun to talk to animals, even if the conversation is very limited, or grounded around the sense of smell rather than sight or hearing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leatherhead, post: 6675549, member: 53176"] The Awakened Mind ability, Psychic Mind, explicitly does not need a language at all for you to communicate into their head. And quite frankly, I have never liked the "voice in your head" approach to telepathy. It's so boring, you have a direct connection to something's mind, you shouldn't be forced to use the medium of words. You should beam raw ideas, sensory input, and emotions instead. However, it should be obvious it is coming from you, even if you aren't "talking." For the target to respond, they need to be able to understand a language. This is one of those things I would interpret as being "The capacity to engage in the exchange of information" rather than the hard rule of "does it have a language in the stat block?" Mostly because I think it would be fun to talk to animals, even if the conversation is very limited, or grounded around the sense of smell rather than sight or hearing. [/QUOTE]

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