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I realize that I can take Read Lips so I can understand what my fellows are saying. I am looking for other ways I might be able to communicate. To that end:
Can I use Bluff to attempt to deliver crude signed messages to my party members?
Does the Pathfinder Society have a crude sign language (See Page 9 of Sargava, The Lost Colony)?
I know Deaf is one of the less than optimal curses, but it best fits what I want the character to be.
I realize that I can take Read Lips so I can understand what my fellows are saying. I am looking for other ways I might be able to communicate. To that end:
Can I use Bluff to attempt to deliver crude signed messages to my party members?
Does the Pathfinder Society have a crude sign language (See Page 9 of Sargava, The Lost Colony)?I know Deaf is one of the less than optimal curses, but it best fits what I want the character to be.
Deaf is awesome. Every spell you have is silent. Ping yourself with silence and walk up to an enemy caster. Plus the other options it gives you.
Well you can always read and write
Tongues has a similar issue, but they only understand that language. Incombat they could not even read lips. Your friends need to spend ranks.
Languages are the purview of the GM. A lot of GMs (including mine, fortunately) allow reading lips as a language. In our party, it gets interesting because the summoner's eidolon is very chatty and the GM ruled that my oracle couldn't read it's lips due to its strange facial structure (similar to a Shetland pony). Hijinks ensue pretty much all the time, especially since the oracle isn't mute and tries to hide his deafness so that people won't think he's crazy. (He can't hear because his normal hearing was replaced by overheard comversations from across time and space--he hears those instead. It provides some justification for a Time mystery oracle having the ancient lorekeeper archetype--his vast, seemingly random knowledge is from overhearing the byproduct of all of these overreacts conversations.)
Anyway, read lips is handy if your GM allows it. I'm considering burning a couple of feats or a level to get a tiny familiar who can tap out morse code on the oracle's hand when it hears something important. I'll ask the GM if I can train that as a language or spend a Linguistics point on it.
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Just to clarify, you're aware that the deaf curse doesn't make you mute, right?
As far as you understanding others, you could always use Eldritch Heritage (Arcane) to get a raven familiar that's emphatically linked to you. You could even eventually use improved familiar to telepathically communicate with others through your familiar.
Empathic link is not sufficient for more than emotional communication. Improved familiar would be nice, but it's pretty steep--three feats for a relatively feat-starved class.
Also, the iPhone's autocorrect is clearly a work of evil.
If you took Improved Familiar You could get a Pseudodragon which, according to the bestiary "can communicate telepathically with any intelligent creature"
Edit: And even if your barbarian dumped intelligence to 2, you can still use the pseudodragon to listen to him and then use your voice.
Yes, that's been mentioned a few times in the thread. Reading lips is one way, though, and not terribly efficient when multiple people are talking unless your party just handwaves such difficulties away. Having a familiar who can hear and communicate with you on a level higher than empathy would be quite helpful.