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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuroraGyps" data-source="post: 1537511" data-attributes="member: 1166">Actually, when I said Dr. Dolittle, I was only thinking of the "talk with the animals" part, not being an animal doc.  It is always a pobbiblity though.I'm not playing right now, I don't have a game group, but I got this idea and I thought I'd work it out a bit for when & if I meet some other players.  I figured different animal types would "speak' different and a PC would hear what the animal was saying in their head, while the animal speaks in their regular way, i.e. bark, growl, etc.    Some ideas are:mammals sound almost human, with smaller animals speaking faster than larger onesbirds speak fast too and kind of stacattofish speak REALLY SLOWwild animals have a more limited vocabulary, pets (and other animals that dwell near/ come in contact with people) have a larger oneI think alot of this depends on observation of different animals.  I look at my cat and I think I know how she'd speak if she could.  Squirrels, they always look like they've had too much caffine. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Plus, every animal should have some kind of personality.Languages, I'm not sure about.  I think that maybe since the PC "hears" what's being said in their mind, that maybe their brains translate words into what they speak.  Also, the animals might use certain race specific words if they've dwelled around where it's spoken. Ya know, I got this whole idea from a dream?  Probably had it because of all the reading (mostly fantasy) I do.  I won't knock it though... last RPG idea I got was a technopath for Star Trek.  She could talk to computers by just talking to them and thought pretty fast.  In the dream she shook Data's hand and he said, "I can hear you in my head."  So, in the game, my PC had a huge crush on Data and wanted to meet him alot. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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