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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 78405" data-attributes="member: 99">I am the GM for Speaks With Stone and so ultimately, this will be my call.  We had a discussion about it the other day that was very reasoned.  I don't get the sense that Speaks is trying to abuse the rules in any way.  I think he was just sort of asking, "What if...?"From a strictly scientific point of view, I think it could be argued that these spells are merely altering the form of the creature in question (or the intelligence in the case of Awaken).  They don't alter the DNA and therefore none of these traits could be passed on to the offspring.  In fact, this would suggest that a Wild Shaped Druid breeding with an animal could not even produce a viable offspring.But, in a world where there are such things as Half-Orcs, Half-Elves, Centaurs and other creatures that appear to be clear "combinantions" of two (or more) other species, I think it may be possible that in some circumstances a viable offspring could be produced that would carry at least some of the extraordinary traits of the parents.The question of whether this would be advisable is another matter entirely.  If human-like intelligence is added to a wild creature, you could see some decidedly unnatural results.  An Awakened pack of wolves might use their heightened intelligence to become uber-hunters and depopulate their territory of all game animals.  Or they might become rabbit farmers.Either of those outcomes may or may not be agreeable to any local Druids.  It seems to me that given the various attitudes of different Druids, there could be many opposing opinions about the matter.As such, I am going to devote a little more thought to the attitude about these things, at least for the organization that the PC Druid is a part of.  I welcome any further opinions on the matter from those on the board.</blockquote>

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