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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matita" data-source="post: 7012594" data-attributes="member: 6826003">So in a game I'm playing a friend of mine is playing a revised ranger and he has an animal companion in the form of an Ape (his name is Mongo and we all love Mongo very much.) So much in fact we want to talk to him very very much. I'm playing a Wizard with the Tongues spell prepared so I was talking in a group chat with some of the other players and brought up how I wanted to talk to Mongo to get more of the characters backstory (as he's very secretive) the player was okay with this idea so it's all set next time we have down time in game I cast tongues and chat it up with Mongo, however another player made it very very apparent he doesn't feel the Tongues spell should work on animals.   I think it should as the spell doesn't state the creature needs to know any previous languages, and the 5th edition spell doesn't state it can't work on animals like it did in 3rd edition.  We play again in two weeks and I'm going to ask my DM and ultimately it's up to him but what do you guys think? --- Here's the spell:Tongues: 3rd Level Divination Casting Time: 1 Action, Range: TouchComponents: V,M (Clay model of a Ziggurat), Duration: 1 hourThis spell grants the creature you touch the ability to understand any spoken language it hears. Moreover, when the target speaks, any creature that knows at least one language and can hear the target understands what it says.</blockquote>