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<blockquote data-quote="zyzzyr" data-source="post: 769241" data-attributes="member: 1867">Hi all,The question I was really posing was &quot;is there a way in a published ruleset to allow a druid to speak the languages he or she knows while wildshaped&quot;. I realize that there are umpteen ways of getting around this: mimeing, scratching out messages on the ground, etc. etc.But I think the answer is pretty much &quot;No, there is no rule or mechanic that allows you to do this easily.&quot;The next question is &quot;Does this make any sense?&quot;&nbsp; and the answer can only be a &quot;no&quot;.&nbsp; If you can take a feat that will let you cast spells while wildshaped, well, actually speaking while wildshaped is probably a lot less difficult (and far less powerful), and so a feat, or mechanic should probably exist.At that point, it's really a house rule, then.Now, if you disagree with this in any way (&quot;I don't see why you need to talk while wildshaped&quot;, &quot;Druids who are recluses shouldn't speak much anyhow&quot;, &quot;There are many ways around it, so why bother&quot;), that's fine, that's your prerogative.&nbsp;&nbsp; An argument of &quot;animals can't talk!&quot; would be a very tough one to make, considering awakened animals CAN clearly talk, and feats exist to let animal forms cast SPELLS for goodness' sake (if you allow those feats IYC).To me, it doesn't make sense to have spells but not language, so I hope they at least introduce a feat.&nbsp; &nbsp; Sure, I can house rule it, but as has been mentioned before, it's much easier to convince a GM to go with a published source as opposed to &quot;something I made up&quot;.So, thanks for the input! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />zyzzyr</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zyzzyr, post: 769241, member: 1867"] Hi all, The question I was really posing was "is there a way in a published ruleset to allow a druid to speak the languages he or she knows while wildshaped". I realize that there are umpteen ways of getting around this: mimeing, scratching out messages on the ground, etc. etc. But I think the answer is pretty much "No, there is no rule or mechanic that allows you to do this easily." The next question is "Does this make any sense?" and the answer can only be a "no". If you can take a feat that will let you cast spells while wildshaped, well, actually speaking while wildshaped is probably a lot less difficult (and far less powerful), and so a feat, or mechanic should probably exist. At that point, it's really a house rule, then. Now, if you disagree with this in any way ("I don't see why you need to talk while wildshaped", "Druids who are recluses shouldn't speak much anyhow", "There are many ways around it, so why bother"), that's fine, that's your prerogative. An argument of "animals can't talk!" would be a very tough one to make, considering awakened animals CAN clearly talk, and feats exist to let animal forms cast SPELLS for goodness' sake (if you allow those feats IYC). To me, it doesn't make sense to have spells but not language, so I hope they at least introduce a feat. Sure, I can house rule it, but as has been mentioned before, it's much easier to convince a GM to go with a published source as opposed to "something I made up". So, thanks for the input! :) zyzzyr [/QUOTE]

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