06-12-2017, 02:42 AM
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GURPS FAQ Keeper
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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Re: Alien Race that communicates via pheromones - how to stat it?
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Originally Posted by ericbsmith
Under no circumstances is Mute appropriate if they can communicate normally amongst themselves, any more than it would be appropriate to give a race with Ultrasonic Speech Mute and Deaf.
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No circumstances?
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Originally Posted by Space 221
Cannot Speak
see p. B125
Aliens with different mouth struc-
tures may be unable to pronounce
human languages, effectively giving
them the Cannot Speak disadvantage.
Others may actually be mute, unable to
produce sounds. In any society above
TL7, this can be mitigated by a com-
puter speech synthesizer, at a -60% cost
reduction. See Mitigator, p. B112.
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