Does the individual with whom you are attempting to communicate need to have a language (at least one recognized by the rules as being a language)?
For example, can you talk gibberish (or, to be more specific with what I have in mind and referring to my other rules question, the language of DANCE) to communicate with animals? My friend just pointed this feat out to me since I've been looking for a way to be able to communicate with my summoned monsters for a skald//summoner I made and I've been trying to figure out the best way to be able to command my summoned animals without needing to use Handle Animal to do it.
Side question: can you also use this when casting a language-dependent spell?
1. Well, the feat says the listener hears as if you were speaking in their native language. To me that seems to suggest there has to be a native language for the listener to understand.
2. I would say yes, but that linguistics check with no take 10 is essentially giving you an extra spell failure chance. Better than not being able to affect them at all I suppose.
So, just so I'm clear, a language is defined as any language listed under the Linguistics skill only, so even if animals can communicate with one another they do not in effect have a language?
Or is it that if the creature is mindless, then they don't have a language?
Or is it simply a matter of what the GM decides can constitute a language (creatures that are known to communicate with one another: bees, dolphins, etc. can have a language, but others might not)?
A good rule of thumb is to look at the list of languages on a creature's stat block. If they have a listing for that then they obviously have a language, if they don't then get ready to have a potentially tough time convincing your GM that whatever form of communication they do have is a language.
I can't find this feat. Got a link or source?
I can't find this feat. Got a link or source?
No link yet. It won't be posted on d20pfsrd probably for a month or so (it's from the new Occult Adventures book).
I can't find this feat. Got a link or source?No link yet. It won't be posted on d20pfsrd probably for a month or so (it's from the new Occult Adventures book).
In which case, this is a bit of a zombie revivification, but our gaming group got the book itself not too long ago, and my question is: could this be used on a single written document to translate it, with the +2 to the Linguistics check bonus for another document (or later on in a thick volume) in the same language? With the duration either being a set number of pages or 1 minute/level? With the same drawback, i.e., you can't read that specific work (written by a medical doctor, for instance, with handwriting only a pharmacist could decipher; or it's a technical manual equivalent full of jargon; a math textbook with mostly those sorts of symbols as well as another language; etc.) until you get more ranks in Linguistics?
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