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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6422735" data-attributes="member: 4937">A1: 1.A2: The raven speaks a language of its master's choice.&nbsp; So far as I can tell, the fiendish template does not add any additional language ability to the creature.&nbsp; A DM could of course house rule that fiendish creatures without prior language ability speak or at least understand Infernal as part of gaining 3 intelligence, and that would be a quite reasonable ruling, but strictly speaking, the rules don't provide for that.&nbsp; Even if you have that rule, there is no requirement that a fiendish creature gains an additional language ability above what it would already possess.&nbsp; A3: Since a raven doesn't have sufficient intelligence to gain a bonus language, even if fiendish and a familiar, I see no reason it should be able to speak or understand 2 languages.&nbsp; Arguably, the familiar of a high level caster ought to be able to learn to understand multiple languages because its intelligence rises sufficiently high.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, since familiars gain no skill points (per se) even this is a bit of a stretch.&nbsp; Personally, I would limit that knowledge to languages that the master already knows and limit it to one additional language understood at 17th level or higher (since it already speaks 1 language of its master's choosing and the language 'of its own kind').&nbsp;&nbsp; Now that I think about it, I make the assumption for the purpose of playability that all familiars can understand (but not speak) one language (usually common).&nbsp;&nbsp; In the case of a Raven, I would allow it to speak any language it knows.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6422735, member: 4937"] A1: 1. A2: The raven speaks a language of its master's choice. So far as I can tell, the fiendish template does not add any additional language ability to the creature. A DM could of course house rule that fiendish creatures without prior language ability speak or at least understand Infernal as part of gaining 3 intelligence, and that would be a quite reasonable ruling, but strictly speaking, the rules don't provide for that. Even if you have that rule, there is no requirement that a fiendish creature gains an additional language ability above what it would already possess. A3: Since a raven doesn't have sufficient intelligence to gain a bonus language, even if fiendish and a familiar, I see no reason it should be able to speak or understand 2 languages. Arguably, the familiar of a high level caster ought to be able to learn to understand multiple languages because its intelligence rises sufficiently high. However, since familiars gain no skill points (per se) even this is a bit of a stretch. Personally, I would limit that knowledge to languages that the master already knows and limit it to one additional language understood at 17th level or higher (since it already speaks 1 language of its master's choosing and the language 'of its own kind'). Now that I think about it, I make the assumption for the purpose of playability that all familiars can understand (but not speak) one language (usually common). In the case of a Raven, I would allow it to speak any language it knows. [/QUOTE]

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