Speak with animals is a 1st level spell, while speak with dead is 3rd level. That's a huge gap, especially considering it would let Rangers cast a 3rd level spell 2 levels earlier than full casters, and a whole 6 levels earlier than their normal Spellcasting allows. If you really want your Ranger to have speak with dead, then it would be much more balanced to replace Primal Awareness's speak with plants, or just to get your DM to add it to your spell list.
Would swapping out speak with animals for speak with dead in the ranger trait primal awareness be unbalancing?
Yes.
Speak with animals is a 1st level spell, while speak with dead is 3rd level. That's a huge gap, especially considering it would let Rangers cast a 3rd level spell 2 levels earlier than full casters, and a whole 6 levels earlier than their normal Spellcasting allows. If you really want your Ranger to have speak with dead, then it would be much more balanced to replace Primal Awareness's speak with plants, or just to get your DM to add it to your spell list.
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So, going by level would detect evil and good be better or protection from good and evil?
If you really want to replace it for whatever reason, detect evil and good would be equivalent. Protection from evil and good wouldn't fit with the rest of the spells or the feature in general.
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