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Re: [dq-rules] Greater Summoning (cross post)

Rodger,
While not even remotely active anymore, I dealt with something similar many years ago. We decided that there was probably a different language for each type of animal, with some mixing for similar types. Predatory animals probably knew a smattering of the language of their prey, since that helped them hunt.
Also, these languages were probably low on vocabulary and of simple grammar for most animals but got more complex as they followed the evolutionary ladder. Thus reptiles were of few words with no emotions as we understand them, more like states of being. Birds and amphibians had a few more and started to incorporate simple emotions. Mammals had more complex communications and eventually primates had actual language and structure.
What got even more interesting was when we started discussing the mode of communication. Reptiles generally had only body language, for example. Birds obviously sang (as did whales and other large/ intelligent swimmer types.
One amusing anecdote was the day one of the players started role playing squirrel sign language.
This is what happens when you role play with people who either have biology/psychology/philosophy degrees or are in process. I miss those days. 

Marty

On Dec 19, 2005, at 2:12 PM, rthorm wrote:


(This is cross posted from the dqn-list, since there hasn't been much
activity over here either.  Appologies to those of you who get this in
your inbox twice.)

So we actually met for another session of my campaign this past
weekend. It's been a very intermittent schedule we've been keeping (I
think the previous session was in June), but I'm hopeful that we will
be playing more regularly in the coming year.

One of my players has a Greater Summoner, and he wanted to know how I
would interpret the following about Camio, one of the demonic presidents: 

"Camio is a great linguist and will willingly teach his summoner the
languages of birds and mammals and also teach him to understand what
has passed in a place by reading the speech of running waters."

My on-the-spot interpretation is that there is one bird language, and
one language for each of the subcategories of mammals (felines, great
land mammals, riding animals, etc.) These languages only go to a
maximum of Rank 4 however.

Have any of the rest of you dealt with this? How have you interpreted
this?

Let's have some discussion in this group again,

Rodger
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