Animal Shapes and Speech for spellcasting

[Victor Zajic]

Animal shapes emulates Beast Shape III, which let you take the form of a diminuative to huge animal, or medium sized magical beast. Can anyone think of any forms that would be be able to speak, so that you could keep casting spells?

[Cevah]

Ravens and Parrots are traditional speaking animals.

Polly want a cracker!

/cevah

[LazarX]

Victor Zajic wrote:

Animal shapes emulates Beast Shape III, which let you take the form of a diminuative to huge animal, or medium sized magical beast. Can anyone think of any forms that would be be able to speak, so that you could keep casting spells?

You want to cast spells in animal form.... Take the Natural Spell Feat. That won't give you speech, but it will let you cast spells.

You are otherwise limited to the sounds an untrained animal would make. And this includes Ravens and Parrots.