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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kibbitz" data-source="post: 424733" data-attributes="member: 3723">a) I have to be fiendish to be a GM?b) Hmm, shattering stereotypes? Well, I'm going to have to apologize for dropping my previous stand, and I'll have to ask readers to disregard my previous statements regarding the inability to take talking animals seriously. I've been thinking. How is an talking animal different from a non-talking animal?(i) It can communicate directly with us, without the need for magic. What would you make of it? Unless this is a common occurance (Tom the talking cat obviously from the Permaniacian breed which are naturally articulate, vs Tom the normal tabby) , this one is definitely special in some way. But how? Is it just a cat gifted with ability of humanoid speech, or is it more than just that?(ii) It's a novelty. It's something unnatural. People might kill it because they think it's demonspawn. People might worship it, thinking that it's an avatar of a god. Some might try and make money out of it. What would you do?With this amount of uncertainty, I don't think players will be thinking of Ed the talking horse at this juncture. Well, most. I know people who'd probably crack jokes about this. But nevermind them, they're incorrigible <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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