Speak With Animals 5e Familiar

For example find familiar gives the caster a list of animals to choose from.

Speak with animals 5e familiar. Just not for traditional dungeon crawlers. Given that all humanoids are animals In reallife yes that is true but in game terms humanoid and beastanimal are 2 very different types of creatures. Speak with Animals 5e.

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 only agency the player has is choosing the number of creatures and the cr cap you can actually still get things below that cr. Speak with Small Beasts.

Tricks would be like. 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. With how many classes can get these little creatures a good question to ask is what familiars work well.

Find Familiar While your familiar is within 100 feet of you you can communicate with it telepathically. For some context here is the spell Speak with Animals which I must admit works against my desired interpretation of Speak with Small Beasts. However getting easy advantage on your attacks while transformed is an amazing option to have.

If the master is 7th level or higher a familiar can communicate with animals of approximately the same kind as itself including dire varieties. Speak with Animals of Its Kind. By the intelligence of the beasts the awareness and the knowledge is limited.

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. Im ignoring the interpretation of simple ideas for this thread.