Speak With Animals 5e Familiar

The Find Familiar spell states that.

Speak with animals 5e familiar. Find Familiar is the most sought-after spell in the game. In addition say my DM let me have a Tressym as a familiar a beast with an intelligence of 11 that can understand but not speak Common. 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.

In combat it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn. 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. 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.

Back in 3E there used to be a trick system based on Animal Handling if I remember correctly. For example find familiar gives the caster a list of animals to choose from. 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. 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. If the master is 7th level or higher a familiar can communicate with animals of approximately the same kind as itself including dire varieties.

For some context here is the spell Speak with Animals which I must admit works against my desired interpretation of Speak with Small Beasts. If the master is 7th level or higher a familiar can communicate with animals of approximately the same kind as itself including dire varieties. The spell speak with animals allows characters to talk to animals form a bond and make them part of the group.

Speak with Animals of Its Kind. To communicate verbally or to comprehend with beasts you need to gain the ability for the particular duration. 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.