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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Damon Griffin" data-source="post: 1750145" data-attributes="member: 3568">(1) Do intelligent weapons sleep?  More precisely, do they have inactive, or "unconscious" periods, whether those periods are called sleep, meditation, the "inanimate cycle" or whatever?Physically they don't have the need for it, as they have no way to become fatigued, but the need for sleep is more mental than physical anyway.It seems harsh to have intelligent weapons continuously awake -- what's a thinking sword to do, sitting in its sheath for days, perhaps weeks on end, no one around to draw it?(2) Can intelligent weapons see?  This may seem like a stupid question, but obviously they can hear; at least, any of them with Speech as a mode of communication can hear. Many of them will have 'detect' powers, which (if they duplicate the spell effects) act as targeting senses, telling the weapon not only that there is magic within 60', but where it is.  That may be more like bat sonar than like sight.(3) For those intelligent weapons that have telepathy as a mode of communication, what are the parameters of that?  It does not appear that telepathy is a spell, or a psionic power (it's a class of psionic powers.)  In the MM it is listed as a (supernatural) characteristic of some monsters, but apparently both the range and the "power level" of the telepathy vary from one monster to the next, so how would it be determined for an intelligent weapon?</blockquote>