magical beast questions

[Uthak]

I'll make this simple.

can you use speak with animals to talk with a magical beast?

[Jeraa]

Uthak wrote:

I'll make this simple.

can you use speak with animals to talk with a magical beast?

Magical beasts are not animals. They are magical beasts. Speak with Animals only works with animals.

[Sithis of Fangwood]

While Jeraa is correct, I can see one sensible caveat (for home games, at least).

Many magical beasts (and some polymorphed creatures, like Wildshaped Druids) are capable of communicating with animals similar to their kind.

If you're effectively speaking the same language as they'd be speaking, I don't see why cross communication wouldn't be possible.

Otherwise it'd be super easy to use a 1st level spell to effectively detect whether an animal was natural or not.

But, technically, as magical beasts and polymorphed creatures aren't "animals", the spell would not work on them.

[Shadowlords]

I thought magical Beasts could speak

[Nefreet]

Not all can.

[Jeraa]

Shadowlords wrote:

I thought magical Beasts could speak

Even with the ones that can, you aren't guaranteed to share a language.

[Shadowlords]

Jeraa wrote:

Shadowlords wrote:

I thought magical Beasts could speak

Even with the ones that can, you aren't guaranteed to share a language.

So then spells like share language or comprehend language come into play, if they speak another language then defiantly speak with animals will not work.