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[g2knee]

Hello,

I'm just trying to make it so animal people cannot speak.  In my imagination, they are savage/primitive creatures somewhere between a wild animal and a cave man.

I can find their info in the raws, of course -- but I'm trying to understand how the [APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:ANIMAL_PERSON] works.

I can open "c_variation_default.txt", see animal people, and the argument
"[CV_NEW_TAG:CAN_SPEAK]"

Can I just remove this line, or do I have to do something else?

Sorry for the basic nature of my question, and thanks for the help!

[Teneb]

Hello,

I'm just trying to make it so animal people cannot speak.  In my imagination, they are savage/primitive creatures somewhere between a wild animal and a cave man.

I can find their info in the raws, of course -- but I'm trying to understand how the [APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:ANIMAL_PERSON] works.

I can open "c_variation_default.txt", see animal people, and the argument
"[CV_NEW_TAG:CAN_SPEAK]"

Can I just remove this line, or do I have to do something else?

Sorry for the basic nature of my question, and thanks for the help!

I think they also have INTELLIGENT, so no, removing CAN_SPEAK would not work. (INTELLIGENT implies CAN_SPEAK). Instead, you may want to add the following instead to where the rest of the CV_NEW_TAG stuff is: [CV_NEW_TAG:UTTERANCES]. UTTERANCES makes the creature speak in gibberish, like kobolds, and prevents them from having any friendly contact with any entities that is not their own.

[vjmdhzgr]

However [UTTERANCES] doesn't actually conflict with [CAN_SPEAK]. It instead allows them to speak, but makes their names gibberish, and makes diplomacy impossible. Just remove that [CV_NEW_TAG:CAN_SPEAK]. They don't actually have [INTELLIGENT].

[Teneb]

However [UTTERANCES] doesn't actually conflict with [CAN_SPEAK]. It instead allows them to speak, but makes their names gibberish, and makes diplomacy impossible. Just remove that [CV_NEW_TAG:CAN_SPEAK]. They don't actually have [INTELLIGENT].

Huh. I swore they actually had INTELLIGENT. In this case, yeah, removing CAN_SPEAK will do the trick.