How to speak when wildshaped?

[Bagpuss]

Where's my Tuna! Get me my Tuna!

 

[el-remmen]

Speak with Animals?

 

[nittanytbone]

See if your DM will let you get a hat of speak with animals to loan to a friend.

 

[DarkJester]

This is for one of my players, I'm the DM. He wants to be a dire lion all the time and he has two normal lion animal companions (one via the feat wild cohort). He'd like to be able to stay in lion form all the time, even possibly in town (which will make for some interesting scenes ..hehe).

I'm debating simply giving him the ability to speak while wildshaped in exchange for plant and elemental wildshapes. He has no interest in changing into either of those types anyways.

 

[Salthorae]

Honestly the ability to speak when Wild Shaped is cool, but not too powerful. I wouldn't make him give up two different WS types (Plant AND Elemental) just to be able to talk. After all, he never knows when that Air Elemental 100' (perfect) fly speed will come in handy.

Effectively to be able to talk he'd be giving up an Epic Feat (no, I don't know why it's a 12th level druid ability, but also an Epic feat requiring Know (Nature) 24 ranks, it just is...)

I'd say that' more than a fair trade off...

 

[Musrum]

This is for one of my players, I'm the DM. He wants to be a dire lion all the time and he has two normal lion animal companions (one via the feat wild cohort). He'd like to be able to stay in lion form all the time, even possibly in town (which will make for some interesting scenes ..hehe).

I'm debating simply giving him the ability to speak while wildshaped in exchange for plant and elemental wildshapes. He has no interest in changing into either of those types anyways.

If you ar e the DM then you can allow your player to research a spell.

Here is one that my DM and I developed for my Druid. (-> indicates DM delta)

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Freedom of Speech
Transmutation -> Illusion (figment)
Level: Drd 1
Components: S -> V
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Personal
Effect: Intelligible sound, usually speech
Duration: 10 min./level -> 1 min./level (D)
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

You can make your voice (or any sound that you can normally make vocally) heard without using your vocal tract. Thus you can speak normally (a free action) whilst gagged, underwater, paralyzed or polymorphed into a creature that cannot normally speak. You can speak in any language you know. With respect to such voices and sounds, anyone who hears the sound perceives it as comming from you, and recognizes your voice if they are familiar with you.
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You then create a Magic Item from this (with wilding clasp) an you are done...

 

[Hypersmurf]

Speak with Animals?

Won't work - while Wildshaped, you retain your Humanoid type, so you don't count as an Animal...

That is, won't work for talking to the rest of the party. It'd let you talk to your Companion.

-Hyp.