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<blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 5525192" data-attributes="member: 447"><p>Maybe we should just open the <em>Monster Manual</em>.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Griffons are magical beasts. [EDIT: Reading back, I notice the OP didn't mention any creatures that were animals. So for my part, I apologize for the pointless tangent.]</p><p></p><p>Or maybe the <em>Player's Handbook</em>.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I have no issue with teaching sufficiently intelligent magical beasts to read. [EDIT: I would, however, also require that the creature cough up at least two skill points (possibly four, as above, but griffons already understand Common, so might be said to "know" it already) -- and a magical beast straight from the MM has already spent them all, so AFAICT we're talking either HD increase or permanent INT increase. What's good for the barbarian....]</p><p></p><p>[FURTHER EDIT: Just for completeness's sake, I'll note that a druid's animal companion is treated as a magical beast only for effects that depend on its type; it also doesn't get an INT boost. I would posit that if a druid animal companion's type is changed to magical beast somehow (as with <em>awaken</em>, or by becoming some other sort of companion creature), it can't serve as a druid's animal companion anymore (<em>awaken</em> explicitly includes this restriction). Devoted Tracker specifically works only with paladin mount/ranger animal companion. I don't really see how the same creature could also be your familiar and your druid animal companion.]</p><p></p><p>[FURTHER FURTHER EDIT: And finally, to actually answer the OP's original question, if you do manage to end up with a literate mount, I guess it could read and benefit from a <em>tome</em> or <em>manual</em> the same as a literate PC.]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marius Delphus, post: 5525192, member: 447"] Maybe we should just open the [i]Monster Manual[/i]. Griffons are magical beasts. [EDIT: Reading back, I notice the OP didn't mention any creatures that were animals. So for my part, I apologize for the pointless tangent.] Or maybe the [i]Player's Handbook[/i]. I have no issue with teaching sufficiently intelligent magical beasts to read. [EDIT: I would, however, also require that the creature cough up at least two skill points (possibly four, as above, but griffons already understand Common, so might be said to "know" it already) -- and a magical beast straight from the MM has already spent them all, so AFAICT we're talking either HD increase or permanent INT increase. What's good for the barbarian....] [FURTHER EDIT: Just for completeness's sake, I'll note that a druid's animal companion is treated as a magical beast only for effects that depend on its type; it also doesn't get an INT boost. I would posit that if a druid animal companion's type is changed to magical beast somehow (as with [i]awaken[/i], or by becoming some other sort of companion creature), it can't serve as a druid's animal companion anymore ([i]awaken[/i] explicitly includes this restriction). Devoted Tracker specifically works only with paladin mount/ranger animal companion. I don't really see how the same creature could also be your familiar and your druid animal companion.] [FURTHER FURTHER EDIT: And finally, to actually answer the OP's original question, if you do manage to end up with a literate mount, I guess it could read and benefit from a [i]tome[/i] or [i]manual[/i] the same as a literate PC.] [/QUOTE]
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