Timeline for Can a Monk "turn off" the Tongue of the Sun and Moon feature?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 10:32 | comment | added | Pilchard123 | This raises an interesting question: if a creatture decides they don't want to understand an L13+ Monk, are they able to block the ability from working on them? | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:23 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 8:40 | comment | added | V2Blast | I could understand if you're making an argument that you don't think it's reasonable to interpret the ability as uncontrollable, but as Medix2 and Tanner Swett point out, the verb "can" isn't evidence that the monk can control whether others understand them. If the rules say "creature X can Y", the logical interpretation is that creature X controls whether Y happens, not that some other creature controls it. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 0:50 | comment | added | user-781943 | @DaleM "I suggest that the monk’s speech is the subject" ? "[The monk's speech] can understand what you say" ? | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 13:00 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | The subject of the sentence is "any creature that can understand a language"; that fact is beyond debate. The sentence might be talking about something else, but the subject is what I just quoted. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 8:30 | comment | added | Dale M | @Medix2 you are assuming that the other creature is the subject of the sentence. I suggest that the monk’s speech is the subject. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 5:17 | comment | added | Exempt-Medic | Where exactly does this feature say "can"? Where it does use "can" it refers to what other creatures can do, so why would the Monk have a choice? | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 4:03 | history | answered | Dale M | CC BY-SA 4.0 |