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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Twowolves" data-source="post: 1705773" data-attributes="member: 18093">I don't really know why I'm putting in my 2 cents, now that you got an official answer, but here goes. 3.5 is based on earlier editions of the game, and in cases like this, I'd look to those rules to see how it used to be done. Speak w/ Dead once took 10 minutes to cast, required incense (I believe), and you didn't even need a corpse, just a piece of the body. In this sense, it very much seems to me to have been meant as a séance-type spell. I remember one character having a collection of pinky fingers for just this purpose. Now that it requires a "mostly intact corpse" that magically yaps at you, it is more restricted in that you can't have a keyring of body parts to strike up a conversation with at will. Needing a body (as in the recent "Hellboy" movie) instead of a lock of hair is the extent of the change as I see it. Limiting it to yes or no answers only completely ignores the whole magic of the spell: returning a fragment of the previous soul to answer questions. Allowing a skeleton to verbally answer a handful of questions based on it's limited perspective during it's previous life is right in line with a 3rd level spell. Keep in mind a 4th lvl spell lets you ask yes or no questions about anything, not just what 5000 year old Joe Schmo knew, and a 5th level spell lets you have a chat with your freakin deity for crying out loud!edit: I see it still takes 10 minutes to cast, but my points are still mostly valid.</blockquote>

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