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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 7409316" data-attributes="member: 57112">Echoing (pun intended) the comments above about deafness functionally being blindness for creatures with echolocation-based blindsense.A non-Deaf person being temporarily-deafened might have some difficulty with verbal components, but based around the established fiction of where most spellcasting classes get their power from I would highly doubt anyone other than maybe a Bard or a Warlock struggling with it in such a way as to even begin considering mechanical implications, and in fact, the established fiction of the Sorcerer really makes me feel like the exact pitch/sounds being made are all that important to any spellcaster (Bards would probably disagree from a philosophical standpoint, but probably less-so from a mechanical one), at least not nearly as much as the ability to cast with a sound (hence why Silence stops spellcasters, and why some creatures without what we would traditionally consider mouths and/or vocal chords are still capable of producing magic).Someone who is Deaf from birth would almost certainly not have any problems; either they'd have long ago picked up enough speech training to get by as casters, or they'd have have worked out, as a Deaf community, a way to develop more intricate somatic components that have a similar effect (a trade-off I'd be more than willing to make as a DM for a player who wanted to play a from-birth Deaf PC, automatically failing all sound-based perception checks for being able to write off verbal components).</blockquote>

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