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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 8126890" data-attributes="member: 92511">The &quot;it's up to the DM/how do you want it to work&quot; is the ultimate correct response.FOr me, it is definitely NOT language dependent. You are dealing in direct thought to thought, mind to mind, communication. The mind of the recipient receives what you are &quot;thinking&quot; and comprehends it...and can reply back as long as the telepath maintains contact with it. As for &quot;images&quot;, I would say it's a definite affirmative. Specifically, for intelligent creatures that might not have discernable (or a very alien) language and/or things like &quot;intelligent animals.&quot; That is, you send your thoughts/intentions through pictures...and the recipient can respond in kind. So ideas, plans, information, can be shared and gleaned, but not a &quot;word for word&quot; translation. But with any creature that has -what we understand as- language, even if it is not shared, your thoughts are transferred in a kind of &quot;universal translator&quot; way.To rousing/waking up companions, I would say, sure, why not. IF they are unconscious for some reason or natural sleep, a mental &quot;jostling&quot; which, if they are unconscious in a battelfield/having taken a serious beating, you might have to &quot;scream&quot; in the their head to get a response. If we're talking about those unconscious from damage, but not yet dead, I'd probably say they can be brought to consciousness but unable to function/act...or the Pathfinder rule that you can take ONE simple action -move or 1 attack- results in you losing consciousness again. In the case of magical sleep, I Might require/allow an additional save (with or without bonus, maybe) to wake up...though really a psychic jostling could/should probably be considered en par with physical jostling...so, yeah, ya know what, nevermind. You could wake up a mind that is under magical sleep -as from a spell of innate ability. IF it's induced by poison, disease, ingested something or some such that would be IN your body, then no...but if it's just your mind making you asleep, sure.Psychics are a homebrewed class of my homebrew setting/world. Psychic energies are their own specific energy form (if you want to call it its own type of &quot;magic,&quot; have at it). So telepathy functions as a mentally-generated (by the individual psychic, not some universal force) energy waves of a particular frequency, and adjusting/fluctuating that frequency allows direct thought-to-thought contact...which is why/how creatures that do not share language can communicate, and/or effect (attack, probe, deceive/telepathically induced illusion, etc...) other minds.Yeah...I think that about covers where my telepathy is/does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 8126890, member: 92511"] The "it's up to the DM/how do you want it to work" is the ultimate correct response. FOr me, it is definitely NOT language dependent. You are dealing in direct thought to thought, mind to mind, communication. The mind of the recipient receives what you are "thinking" and comprehends it...and can reply back as long as the telepath maintains contact with it. As for "images", I would say it's a definite affirmative. Specifically, for intelligent creatures that might not have discernable (or a very alien) language and/or things like "intelligent animals." That is, you send your thoughts/intentions through pictures...and the recipient can respond in kind. So ideas, plans, information, can be shared and gleaned, but not a "word for word" translation. But with any creature that has -what we understand as- language, even if it is not shared, your thoughts are transferred in a kind of "universal translator" way. To rousing/waking up companions, I would say, sure, why not. IF they are unconscious for some reason or natural sleep, a mental "jostling" which, if they are unconscious in a battelfield/having taken a serious beating, you might have to "scream" in the their head to get a response. If we're talking about those unconscious from damage, but not yet dead, I'd probably say they can be brought to consciousness but unable to function/act...or the Pathfinder rule that you can take ONE simple action -move or 1 attack- results in you losing consciousness again. In the case of magical sleep, I Might require/allow an additional save (with or without bonus, maybe) to wake up...though really a psychic jostling could/should probably be considered en par with physical jostling...so, yeah, ya know what, nevermind. You could wake up a mind that is under magical sleep -as from a spell of innate ability. IF it's induced by poison, disease, ingested something or some such that would be IN your body, then no...but if it's just your mind making you asleep, sure. Psychics are a homebrewed class of my homebrew setting/world. Psychic energies are their own specific energy form (if you want to call it its own type of "magic," have at it). So telepathy functions as a mentally-generated (by the individual psychic, not some universal force) energy waves of a particular frequency, and adjusting/fluctuating that frequency allows direct thought-to-thought contact...which is why/how creatures that do not share language can communicate, and/or effect (attack, probe, deceive/telepathically induced illusion, etc...) other minds. Yeah...I think that about covers where my telepathy is/does. [/QUOTE]

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