Timeline for Does a severely reduced intelligence ability score impair your ability to communicate?
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| May 2, 2021 at 7:13 | comment | added | gto | @Axoren My argument is that being polymorphed into a low INT creature would make you unable to think complex thoughts. My "maritime law" comment (below the answer) was simply an off-the-cuff example of a topic that the polymorphed individual probably wouldn't be able to grasp due to its inherent complexities and subtleties. | |
| May 2, 2021 at 5:27 | comment | added | Axoren | @gto Wouldn't this imply that if someone knew the finer points of maritime law that they would suddenly forget them because their INT score cannot accommodate those thoughts? This opens up a bigger can of worms by making concepts the character has already breached intellectually inaccessible. Essentially Polymorphing would make you forget things. How is one supposed to reasonably decide on what things they already know that can't be remembered? and how is that going to affect play? | |
| May 2, 2021 at 4:13 | history | edited | gto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added section about character vs. player impairment.
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| Apr 30, 2021 at 22:07 | history | edited | gto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Changed "person" to "character."
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| Apr 18, 2021 at 21:23 | comment | added | gto | @Mołot Yes, I'm quite familiar with Penny Patterson's work with Koko the gorilla, but an INT of 7 hardly counts as impaired. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there are some party members with that stat! Your other examples are exactly the kinds of concepts I intended to express that a low INT creature would be able to communicate; but I don't expect them to be able to discuss, oh, say . . . the finer points of maritime law. | |
| Apr 18, 2021 at 21:15 | history | edited | gto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added missing period.
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| Apr 18, 2021 at 19:22 | comment | added | Mołot | Please remember that in real life primates taught sign languages were able to talk about things as abstract as "where do dead ones go after they die?" BTW the answer was "to a comfortable hole". Lower than human INT didn't appear to significantly higher what concepts she could communicate, just the way she did it. Elephants (int 3) are able to perform burial rituals and understand sorrow of other species. Rats (int 2) can communicate which one will test the food for safety, scout and report. This answer is based on incomplete knowledge of real life animals communication. | |
| Apr 18, 2021 at 14:34 | comment | added | gto | @BaconyRevanant Please note that I've elaborated on the part of my answer regarding Speak with Animals. | |
| Apr 18, 2021 at 14:22 | history | edited | gto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Elaborated on the Speak with Animals spell.
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| Apr 18, 2021 at 14:04 | comment | added | RevanantBacon | You say Speak With Animals allows greater levels of communication than telepathy would, but Speak With Animals does not grant any additional mental faculties to any animals you talk to, so anything that can be communicated through one method would be able to be communicated through the other. | |
| Apr 18, 2021 at 10:13 | comment | added | TheBumba | Correct, that's why the Druid wildshape feature specifies that you keep your mental faculties, while the Polymorph specifically says that your mental scores are replaced by those of the animal as well as the other ones. Honestly i can't understand why you had a downvote. | |
| Apr 18, 2021 at 9:39 | history | answered | gto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |