8/27/2023 0 Comments 5e awaken targets![]() The Great Old One warlock's Awakened Mind feature description now reads: Most recently, the latest printings of the PHB as of November 2018 changed the wording, even though the change isn't noted in errata. ![]() In contrast, the telepathy ability that some monsters have ( MM, 9) does make two-way communication possible. The warlock can use the feature to speak telepathically to a creature, but the feature doesn’t give that creature the ability to telepathically reply. The feature is intended to provide one-way communication. The intent is for it to be one-way communication, but a DM could certainly rule that it's two-way telepathy, as in monsters.Īs quoted in GuerillaNerd's answer, the July 2015 Sage Advice column (whose answers are reprinted in the Sage Advice Compendium) officially confirmed this intent:ĭoes the warlock’s Awakened Mind feature allow two-way telepathic communication? Is it one way or two way communication? I read it as one, but others don't. However, as briefly mentioned in Brazol's answer, rules designer Jeremy Crawford clarified in a (now-unofficial) tweet in 2014 that it was meant to be one-way:įor the Warlock Old One Pact Telepathy power. "Communication with" a creature suggests that you might be able to communicate your thoughts to it, and that it might then be able to communicate back. You can communicate telepathically with any creature you can see within 30 feet of you. ![]() ![]() The description of the Great Old One warlock's Awakened Mind feature was originally ambiguously phrased (PHB, p. you and the target can share with one another through the link.Īs this ability is worded specifically for sending messages, I suspect that it's actually intended to do just that. In contrast to the wording of the ability in question, the spell telepathy for example is very clear about the communication being both ways: You don't need to share a language with the creature to communicate with it, but the creature must be able to communicate in at least one language. If the communication was meant to be both ways, I would have expected this to read: The focus is solely on the receiver of the warlocks message. Remarkably, nothing is said about the warlocks ability to understand the reply. You don't need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic utterances, but the creature must be able understand at least one language. You left out a part that from my point of view gives at least a hint what is intended. Starting at 1st level, your alien knowledge gives you the ability to touch the minds of other creatures. Warlock: No, I'm telling you what I think… mentally.Īs mentioned in this answer and this answer, it seems the intent really is to have the warlock's telepathy be one-way-the warlock capable of sending thoughts but not receiving them-, but it might be a worthwhile (and sanity-saving!) house rule to make the warlock's telepathy two-way anyway. I can only speak into your head not hear your replies. I put that thought from my head into your head. (He does.) Into your head I just projected the sentence You like puppies. Warlock: Now I will communicate with you telepathically. This means folks are free to ignore the voice in their heads, and that means the entire campaign could elapse with no one-except maybe the warlock's companions after much convincing-acknowledging the warlock's superpower at all, ascribing the warlock's telepathic intrusions to demonic influence, madness, magic, bad (or good!) pipeweed, or whatever. Telepathy that only allows sending thoughts just isn't that useful unless there's an offensive component… and, here, there isn't.
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