Animal Friendship 5e - D&D 5th Edition Spell Book

Classes That Can Cast Animal Friendship 5e

The following classes gain access to casting Acid Splash 5e as part of their normal class spell availability:

• Bard
• Druid
• Ranger
• Additional Note: Nature Domain

Animal Friendship Usefulness

Animal Friendship 5e is probably a mid-tier spell in terms of overall value, at best. Charming animals like bears or wolves may have some value, though if you face something like an owlbear, the spell's value - if it succeeds - increases quite a bit.

As with so many other spells in D&D 5e, the main problem with spells like Animal Friendship 5e is that at least half of the spell's overall value likely comes from roleplay encounters. If you happen to adventure into a forest with powerful animals, or can charm animals to help you find important things in your adventure, etc. then Animal Friendship may be an amazing spell. However, if you don't come across animals, your 1st-level spell slot is almost certainly better spent with a damage or healing spell of some kind, such as hellish rebuke 5e or cure wounds 5e.

The main thing to keep in mind is that spell usefulness is mainly based on the adventure your group is currently facing, and your dungeon master's use of encounters. Most 5e groups get into a lot of combat encounters, which is why more heavily roleplay-based spells like animal friendship aren't often as valuable as primarily combat-based spells.

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Combine Animal Friendship 5e with the Following Spells

When it comes to combat, the more time you can buy yourself to charm animals, the more likely you are to turn the combat encounter into just a host of benign animal friends. You can use spells like mage armor 5e and haste 5e to increase your AC against enemy attacks, while using cause fear 5e and charm person 5e to keep any non-animal enemies away from you.

Basically, if you just stay alive long enough, assuming you have enough spell slots, you should be able to successfully use animal friendship on just about any animal who attacks you. The spell requires a successful Wisdom save to resist, after all - which, of course, most animals are not very good at succeeding with.

Animal Friendship 5e Counters

In probably 99.9% of cases, animals (and their companions) have no way of removing an animal friendship 5e effect. Imagine a pack of wolves - they aren't going to cast silence 5e on you, naturally. Also, though the charm effect from animal friendship breaks if you or one of your companions attacks the charmed animal, technically, that effect does not break if an ally attacks the charmed target. That is to say, one wolf can't give another wolf a gentle nibble to free them of the charm effect.

So, with no dispel magic effects or magical counters at hand, a charmed animal (and its animal friends) are pretty much helpless against the animal friendship 5e spell. 

The only counter you may have to watch out for is if you use animal friendship 5e on an enemy ranger or druid's animal companion, as they may have some magical effects of their own that they can use to counter your spell. 

Animal Friendship-Type Spells in Eternity TTRPG

Eternity TTRPG has its own independent TTRPG known by the same name: the Eternity TTRPG Game System. In Eternity TTRPG, spells are not classified into primarily combat-based spells or roleplay-based spells, as they often are in D&D 5e. Instead, any spell or ability from any class may be used in a roleplay situation as players deem that the effect "fits." Furthermore, spells and abilities may be used creatively, with no "set" way for them to be used, by definition.

The only restrictions on roleplay use of spells and abilities is that the creative use of it may not be more "powerful" than it would be in combat (in a direct way), or the effect must roughly match the spell's name or original intended use.

Below is one spell, as an example, that could be an Eternity TTRPG Game System equivalent for the animal friendship 5e spell.