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<blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5692838" data-attributes="member: 78958">&quot;A creature that has a language&quot; ought to be easy to adjudicate: every creature that can speak or understand a language hasusually&nbsp; a line or two in their writeup. &quot;XYZ speak Common and Abyssal&quot;, &quot;UVW cannot speak, but can understand Common and Undercommon&quot;, &quot;Most RST speak only RSTan, but exceptionally intelligent individuals can learn other languages&quot;, that kind of thing.Animal intelligence means the creature cannot learn a language. Simple verbal commands the creature can learn to understand, but this is independent of language: it's a part of the Handle Animal skill. &quot;You can use this skill on a creature with an Intelligence score of 1 or 2&nbsp; that is not an animal, but the DC of any such check increases by 5.&quot;Since Telepathy only works on creatures with a language, and Ankhegs don't have a language, it wouldn't work, period. Charming the Ankheg in the first place wouldn't be a problem, though. I'd probably also allow the character to keep the Ankheg from eating his friends - but to order it about, against specific foes and the like, would require Handle Animal checks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Empirate, post: 5692838, member: 78958"] "A creature that has a language" ought to be easy to adjudicate: every creature that can speak or understand a language hasusually a line or two in their writeup. "XYZ speak Common and Abyssal", "UVW cannot speak, but can understand Common and Undercommon", "Most RST speak only RSTan, but exceptionally intelligent individuals can learn other languages", that kind of thing. Animal intelligence means the creature cannot learn a language. Simple verbal commands the creature can learn to understand, but this is independent of language: it's a part of the Handle Animal skill. "You can use this skill on a creature with an Intelligence score of 1 or 2 that is not an animal, but the DC of any such check increases by 5." Since Telepathy only works on creatures with a language, and Ankhegs don't have a language, it wouldn't work, period. Charming the Ankheg in the first place wouldn't be a problem, though. I'd probably also allow the character to keep the Ankheg from eating his friends - but to order it about, against specific foes and the like, would require Handle Animal checks. [/QUOTE]

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