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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5930284" data-attributes="member: 21076">The playtest wasn't built to prohibit it. With as many kobolds as there were it would have been easy to say that a few of the kobolds had learned broken common and been able to communicate. These are decisions and judgments the DM is free to make. Adapt and tweak things.It is going to take some time for DMs to learn this flexibility if they are used to the rules telling them exactly what they can and cannot do. And it will be good if upon release of this version there is a good chunk of material devoted to getting DMs comfortable with this style.If I had been running for your party and your party had made genuine efforts to communicate with the kobolds I would likely have had a few give confused quizzical looks, hesitate and then send back for another kobold who did know common (or enough common to communicate). Actions like this by the DM are not prohibited. It is just a style that needs learned as one shrugs off the restrictions that are associated with rules trying to cover every single situation.</blockquote>