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For example, can a lashunta telepathically communicate with a Marooned One (an intelligent undead) or an Anacite (an intelligent construct)?
Telepathy
A creature with the telepathy special ability can mentally communicate with any other creature within a certain range (specified in the creature’s description, though the range of telepathy is usually 100 feet) that knows a language. It is possible to address multiple creatures at once telepathically, although maintaining a telepathic conversation with more than one creature at a time is just as difficult as simultaneously speaking and listening to multiple people at the same time.Limited Telepathy
Limited telepathy functions in the same manner as telepathy, except that both the creature with the limited telepathy special ability and the creature it is communicating with must have a language in common.
Unead and constructs normally come with immunity to mind-affecting effects. Does that block telepathy?
There's a couple of things that give you telepathy with technolical creatures specifically;
Aballonian corporations initially distributed sapphire cones, but none of those businesses have a clear claim to the original device. While this aeon stone orbits you, you have limited telepathy you can use only with creatures that have the technological subtype and are within 100 feet of you.
It doesn't say anything about overriding immunities, so maybe it doesn't have to because immunity to mind-affecting effects doesn't apply to telepathy?
Alien Archive lists several creatures with both immunity to mind-affecting effects and telepathy:
Hallajin have even longer telepathy range with other hallajin.
Necrovites spend most of their time among the undead, and they have telepathy.
Frujai have telepathy and the mother plant presumably uses it to communicate with its worker drones?
Deh-Nolo like a lot of Dominion of the Black creatures have telepathy and immunity to mind-affecting effects.
There's a couple of things that give you telepathy with technolical creatures specifically;
I think its pretty clear that they work then, on the basis that specific trumps general.
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There's a couple of things that give you telepathy with technolical creatures specifically;I think its pretty clear that they work then, on the basis that specific trumps general.
So what about the general case? The examples I've given all imply that telepathy isn't blocked by being immune to mind-affecting.
Is the Aeon Stone just a nice thing that gives you pretty long-range telepathy without counting as a worn item? 100ft telepathy is a lot more than you get from other items so does that balance the restriction to technological creatures only? Or does the "restriction" actually mean that it overrides an immunity?
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Where is telepathy tagged as "mind-affecting"?Telepathy
A creature with the telepathy special ability can mentally communicate with any other creature...that knows a language.Limited Telepathy
Limited telepathy functions in the same manner as telepathy, except...must have a language in common.
Nowhere that I know of - but outside of spell descriptions, a lot of things aren't thoroughly tagged. It's not a strange idea that telepathy might be mind-affecting. But the prevalence of mind-immune enemies with telepathy suggests that it's not a problem.