Speak With Animals 5e Familiar

You might be able to persuade a beast to perform a small favor for.

Speak with animals 5e familiar. You can know the information from the beasts about the nearby locations monsters and also about they have perceived in previous days. Bats with bats rats with rodents cats with felines hawks and owls and ravens with birds lizards and snakes with reptiles toads with amphibians weasels with similar creatures weasels minks polecats ermines. Heel Come Fetch Play Dead Speak.

You gain the service of a familiar a spirit that takes an animal form you choose. You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration. The reason is that familiars allow a whole new section of movements that ignore many of the restrictions of the action economy in the game.

Theres the urban companion ACF that basically replaces the animal companion with a familiar and if youre nice you can allow improved familiar to work with it. For example find familiar gives the caster a list of animals to choose from. There are two approaches as i see it.

The Druid may speak with their animal companion at all times in a way similar to the Speak with Animals spell qv The animal companion acts independently of the Druid and is a boon companion rather than a familiar or other similar spirit aide. The Familiar is a summon that you can get through any class that attains find familiar theoretically with the Ritual Caster feat or Magic Initiate you can get a familiar no matter what. If the master is 7th level or higher a familiar can communicate with animals of approximately the same kind as itself including dire varieties.

A familiar cant attack but it can take other actions as normal. First one is to literally give them a voice and speech for the benefit of the spell. Bat cat crab frog toad hawk lizard octopus owl poisonous snake fish quipper rat raven sea horse spider or weasel.

Using these rules not only can characters of any class now summon familiars and animal companions but the familiars and animal companions that are summoned possess a much greater potential for versatility and power. The knowledge and awareness of many beasts is limited by their intelligence but at minimum beasts can give you information about nearby locations and monsters including whatever they can perceive or have perceived within the past day. Just not for traditional dungeon crawlers.