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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1703931" data-attributes="member: 1465">I very much agree with you Mouseferatu.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I was just about to post that the reason why the spell says &quot;it must at least have a mouth&quot; is probably that you should not allow to use the spell to speak with a severed finger for example.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> If you start ruling that the skeleton cannot speak because it doesn't have a tongue, you can rule as well that you cannot speak with any corpse because it doesn't have blood pressure to make the muscles of the tongue move etc... or IOW you cannot speak with any corpse because dead corpses cannot speak&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Just think that &quot;must have a mouth&quot; means that if someone died decapitated and the head was buried away from the body, you cannot use speak with dead on both the head and the body, but just the head. I think it's fair, personally.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1703931, member: 1465"] I very much agree with you Mouseferatu. :) I was just about to post that the reason why the spell says "it must at least have a mouth" is probably that you should not allow to use the spell to speak with a severed finger for example. :p If you start ruling that the skeleton cannot speak because it doesn't have a tongue, you can rule as well that you cannot speak with any corpse because it doesn't have blood pressure to make the muscles of the tongue move etc... or IOW you cannot speak with any corpse because dead corpses cannot speak :D Just think that "must have a mouth" means that if someone died decapitated and the head was buried away from the body, you cannot use speak with dead on both the head and the body, but just the head. I think it's fair, personally. [/QUOTE]

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