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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1641931" data-attributes="member: 10201">I'm not sure how you have conversations, but mine involve communication in both directions. Based on the Telepathy ability description alone, i'd say that the communication is telepathic in both directions, but that the creature with telepathy hears what the other participants want her to hear. IOW, the pseudo-dragon doesn't read thoughts willy-nilly, but can &quot;hear&quot; those thoughts that the people it's talking to want it to hear. After all, why would the telepathy description even mention &quot;listening to multiple people&quot; if the ability didn't allow &quot;listening&quot;, as well as &quot;talking&quot;? That, coupled with the fact that it describes it as &quot;communicate with&quot; rather than &quot;talk to&quot;--the former strongly implies two-way, while the former almost explicitly denotes one-way.So, to answer the original question: IMHO, the pseudo-dragon can communicate silently with anyone who wants to communicate with it. You can't stop it talking to you in yoru mind, but you don't have to respond, mentally or otherwise, and it can only read those thoughts you want it to, so you can lie and keep secrets. Perhaps a Will save vs. some sort of skill check if you're trying to hide something while the pseudo-dragon is trying to trick you into revealing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 1641931, member: 10201"] I'm not sure how you have conversations, but mine involve communication in both directions. Based on the Telepathy ability description alone, i'd say that the communication is telepathic in both directions, but that the creature with telepathy hears what the other participants want her to hear. IOW, the pseudo-dragon doesn't read thoughts willy-nilly, but can "hear" those thoughts that the people it's talking to want it to hear. After all, why would the telepathy description even mention "listening to multiple people" if the ability didn't allow "listening", as well as "talking"? That, coupled with the fact that it describes it as "communicate with" rather than "talk to"--the former strongly implies two-way, while the former almost explicitly denotes one-way. So, to answer the original question: IMHO, the pseudo-dragon can communicate silently with anyone who wants to communicate with it. You can't stop it talking to you in yoru mind, but you don't have to respond, mentally or otherwise, and it can only read those thoughts you want it to, so you can lie and keep secrets. Perhaps a Will save vs. some sort of skill check if you're trying to hide something while the pseudo-dragon is trying to trick you into revealing it. [/QUOTE]

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