speak-with-animals

Speak with Animals

1st-level, Divination (ritual)

  • Casting time: 1 Action unless cast as a ritual
  • Range: Self
  • Components: V, S
  • Duration: 10 minutes

You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration. 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. You might be able to persuade a beast to perform a small favor for you, at the DM's discretion.

Classes: Barbarian (Path of the Totem Warrior); Bard (College of Lore); Bard (Magical Secrets); Bard; Cleric (Nature Domain); Cleric (Nature Domain); Druid; Paladin (Oath of the Ancients); Ranger

Source: Player's Handbook p. 277. Available in the SRD