[bburky]

This reminds me of the time my party argued about how much modern information theory we were allowed to use in D&D. We wanted to maximize the amount of information to communicate using Sending which states that it sends "twenty-five words or less". Can I use a form of encoding and a compression algorithm? Or can we make up words and can they be arbitrarily long?

[pavel_lishin]

Codes have been around since forever; isn't the problem that you have to make sure the receiving party knows the algorithm, too?

[johncolanduoni]

Encryption yes, but compression encodings haven't.

[Thiez]

Well if players want to get pedantic, in typing, a word in "words per minute" in considered 4 or 5 characters, so as the DM, clearly it's your prerogative to use that definition.

[oconnor0]

Of course, since it's magic, you could easily rule that total data transferred is equivalent to 25 words or less regardless of compression or not.

[JulianMorrison]

Speak in German?

[darklajid]

As a German: I feel that while this would potentially increase the average length of the words you "send", it probably will keep or even decrease the amount of information transferred..