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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 1018193" data-attributes="member: 508">I'm still reading my way through the 3.5 Monster Manual, but the first thing that shocked me was: chuuls now speak Common (or Undercommon)?  They do?  That makes absolutely no sense to me.  Okay, sure, they're as intelligent as a human.  I have no problem with them understanding a spoken language or having nonvocal language skills, but somehow I find it difficult to believe something with the mouthparts of a giant lobster (with the addition of paralytic tentacles, no less), would have the necessary vocal apparatus to actually speak a human language.A crustacean language of clicks and pops, I could buy.  A sort of "Morse code" language based on clicking their claws together, I could buy.  "What are you doing in my pool?  Grrr!  I'll kill you!"...not so much so.  I think the chuuls in my campaign will continue to be mute.(And I thought it was bad enough in 3.0 when they suddenly decided that ropers could talk...)JohnathanP.S. - Despite the above gripe, for the most part I love what they've done with the 3.5 Monster Manual.  Of course, I'm only in the "D" listings, so further bursts of outrage may occur...</blockquote>