Speak with Animals
1st-level, Divination (ritual)

- Casting time: 1 Action unless cast as a ritual
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: 10 minutes
For the duration, you can comprehend and verbally communicate with Beasts, and you can use any of the Influence action’s skill options with them.
Most Beasts have little to say about topics that don’t pertain to survival or companionship, but at minimum, a Beast can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever it has perceived within the past day.
References:
- Ritual Caster
- Paladin (Oath of the Ancients)
- Paladin (Oath of the Ancients)
- Cleric (Nature Domain)
- Barbarian (Path of the Totem Warrior)
- Beast Speech
- Magic Initiate (Druid Spells)
- Bard (Magical Secrets)
- Mark of Handling
- Witch (Green Magic)
- Pact of the Tome
- Warlock
- Ranger
- Witch (Technicolor Magic)
- Martyr (Burden of Rebirth)
- Bard
- Druid
- Fey-Touched
- Bard (College of Lore)
- Cleric (Nature Domain)
- Barbarian (Path of the Wild Heart)
Sources
Player’s Handbook (2024) p. 318. Available in the SRD and the Free Rules (2024)