Speak With Animals 5e Familiar
I have seen people take feats instead of an ASI improvement just to get familiars in 5e.
Speak with animals 5e familiar. Speak with Animals of Its Kind. A searchable dd 5e spell list sorted by class and level. However while many literary familiars are intelligent and capable of speech 5es familiars are limited to the intelligence of the shape they take which is to say animal intelligence.
Speak with Small Beasts. Just not for traditional dungeon crawlers. Speak with Animals of Its Kind.
By the intelligence of the beasts the awareness and the knowledge is limited. However getting easy advantage on your attacks while transformed is an amazing option to have. Dungeons and Dragons DD Fifth Edition 5e Spell - Speak with Animals - You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for t.
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. 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 Druid may speak with their animal companion at all times in a way similar to the Speak with Animals spell qv The animal companion acts independently of the Druid and is a boon companion rather than a familiar or other similar spirit aide.
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. Is the communication from the Forest Gnome ability Speak with Small Beasts a one way or two way thing. You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration.
For some context here is the spell Speak with Animals which I must admit works against my desired interpretation of Speak with Small Beasts. 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. 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.