Was planning on making the Skeleton Alchemist in Ghost of Saltmarsh an NPC that would sell players various alchemist potions. Looking at you potion of water breathing. They would have to hunt down the ingredients. Unfortunately, the stats say he can't speak as other skeletons.
I guess I can either homebrew he can speak or maybe he knows thieve's can't as we have a rogue?
Give the skeleton a huge, fat toad who lives in his ribcage. The toad can read the skeletons mind, and can speak for him. Sometimes he says the wrong things, and the skeleton starts poking him through his ribs.
Or a parrot, like Cotton in pirates of the carribbean.
Or you could lean into it and make him rattle his bones in such a way that it sounds like words if you listen close. Could make for funny misunderstandings, too.
He could communicate by writing things down I guess.
Don't be afraid to just change absolutely anything you want to, at any time, providing you're consistent. There's no problem at all with skeletons speaking. I like the frog-in-ribcage Thoruck suggests above, or you could have a great big leech sit in his jaw, which serves as his tongue, or the skeleton's voice could just be a sibilant whisper heard telepathically at the back of your mind.
If it’s an Alchemist, couldn’t it communicate by spells such as minor illusion or something? Like subtitles. I know that Alchemists don’t get that spell, but there’s no reason the skeleton couldn’t have picked it up somewhere somehow.
Was planning on making the Skeleton Alchemist in Ghost of Saltmarsh an NPC that would sell players various alchemist potions. Looking at you potion of water breathing. They would have to hunt down the ingredients.
Unfortunately, the stats say he can't speak as other skeletons.
I guess I can either homebrew he can speak or maybe he knows thieve's can't as we have a rogue?
Is there a situation a skeleton can speak?
Yes, the DM decides that it can.
Skeletons are supernatural, so why can't they have a supernatural source for its voice? :)
Give the skeleton a huge, fat toad who lives in his ribcage. The toad can read the skeletons mind, and can speak for him. Sometimes he says the wrong things, and the skeleton starts poking him through his ribs.
Or a parrot, like Cotton in pirates of the carribbean.
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Or you could lean into it and make him rattle his bones in such a way that it sounds like words if you listen close. Could make for funny misunderstandings, too.
He could communicate by writing things down I guess.
Don't be afraid to just change absolutely anything you want to, at any time, providing you're consistent. There's no problem at all with skeletons speaking. I like the frog-in-ribcage Thoruck suggests above, or you could have a great big leech sit in his jaw, which serves as his tongue, or the skeleton's voice could just be a sibilant whisper heard telepathically at the back of your mind.
If it’s an Alchemist, couldn’t it communicate by spells such as minor illusion or something? Like subtitles. I know that Alchemists don’t get that spell, but there’s no reason the skeleton couldn’t have picked it up somewhere somehow.
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