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Speak with Animals D&D 2014

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Level
1st
School
Divination
Casting time
1A
Range
Self
Components
V/S
Duration
10 minutes
Ritual
Yes
Classes
Bard, Druid, Ranger

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 GM's discretion.

RollQuest summary Ritual. This spell can be cast as a ritual. The ritual version takes 10 minutes longer to cast and expends no spell slot, so it cannot be cast at a higher level; it requires a feature that grants ritual casting.

SRD 5.1, p.181 · CC BY 4.0

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