Speak With Animals 5e Familiar

A familiar cant attack but it can take other actions as normal.

Speak with animals 5e familiar. While this isnt terribly limiting as far as game mechanics go it makes it more difficult for the player to express the interplay between master and familiar. The rules here expand the role of familiars and animal companions in your campaign by providing an assortment of new rules and options. Your familiar acts independently of you but it always obeys your commands.

Additionally as an action you can see through your familiars eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn gaining the benefits of any special senses that the familiar has. 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. You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration.

If you wanted to use that in 5E Id probably do something like an animal knows a number of tricks equal to your Animal Handling bonus min 1. 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. You gain the service of a familiar a spirit that takes an animal form you choose.

With how many classes can get these little creatures a good question to ask is what familiars work well. 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. First one is to literally give them a voice and speech for the benefit of the spell.

A searchable dd 5e spell list sorted by class and level. You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration. Speak with Small Beasts.

Heel Come Fetch Play Dead Speak. Bat cat crab frog toad hawk lizard octopus owl poisonous snake fish quipper rat raven sea horse spider or weasel. Im ignoring the interpretation of simple ideas for this thread.