You imbue plants within 30 feet of you with limited sentience and animation, giving them the ability to communicate with you and follow your simple commands. You can question plants about events in the spell’s area within the past day, gaining information about creatures that have passed, weather, and other circumstances.
You can also turn difficult terrain caused by plant growth (such as thickets and undergrowth) into ordinary terrain that lasts for the duration. Or you can turn ordinary terrain where plants are present into difficult terrain that lasts for the duration, causing vines and branches to hinder pursuers, for example.
Plants might be able to perform other tasks on your behalf, at the GM’s discretion. The spell doesn’t enable plants to uproot themselves and move about, but they can freely move branches, tendrils, and stalks.
If a plant creature is in the area, you can communicate with it as if you shared a common language, but you gain no magical ability to influence it.
This spell can cause the plants created by the entangle spell to release a restrained creature.
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Posted Dec 31, 2019I have some great ideas for this...
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Posted Jun 7, 2020Can you give inspiration to a plant ?
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Posted Jul 28, 2020please say what they are because I've pretty much just threw this in my "never gonna use" pile
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Posted Aug 22, 2020Potential dialogue here:
"I am the PC and I speak for the trees. The trees say shut the f*ck up, bard."
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Posted Oct 20, 2020A few uses I can think of:
1. Info from local flora about local fauna - "hi little mushroom, what monsters live in this dungeon that you are aware of"?
2. Add flavour to your Druid character - carry around a pet plant / grow moss on your armor etc. surveilence during absence/sleep
3.Good source of info during a "who done it" type quest - people say "the walls have ears" but they never suspect the plants
4. Need to confirm if your mark entered a specific building? ask your friendly neighborhood street grass
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Posted Dec 6, 2020I used this to give my druid an existential breakdown when someone set fire to a forest. She needs to know: Are plants always sentient, or can the spell grant sentience? Both have horrifying implications.
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Posted Jan 25, 2021The pet mushroom on a piece of armor is a GREAT idea, friend.
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Posted Jan 27, 2021As with everything - it depends on the DM.
Although given this spell exists it suggests that plants are sentient but may not be to the degree you may be expecting.
Low tier sentient: "nom nom nom, good sun ray today".
Mid tier: need more food, the ground is too wet.
High tier: what's up? Sorry I don't have eyes. The weather's cold in winter but not to the point where it snows.
Convenient plot devices tier: ye, I saw a dwarf with an eyepatch going to and from the bar quite frequently the past few days, usually an hour after sundown. He carries a sword and a crossbow with him and is usually accompanied by 3 others.
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Posted Jun 27, 2021Mushrooms are fungi. Fungi are not plants.
If Crawford wants to rule the spell works on it; so be it. But fungi are as different as animals from plants. lol Who knows he might rule it works on bacteria too. He's from 4e.
You do you boo. Houserule it or not. It's your game. But it's important to know the science. 😉
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Posted Jun 28, 2021Myconids are fungus monsters categorized as Plants. It seems to be that for the purposes of creature classification and effects like this, fungus are plants.
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Posted Jun 28, 2021Why is this not a Warlock Archfey spell?
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Posted Nov 23, 2021"What happens if I cast it on furniture?" ~player from my latest campaign
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Posted Dec 2, 2021This should be very useful for my Radiant paladin subclass, with a few modifications.
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Posted Dec 22, 2021Why doesn't this have a ritual tag, as speak with animals does?
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Posted Jan 3, 2022In any situation where there's a mystery to someone's identity or to where they went, you can ask literally any plant in the area what happened to them
DND doesn't exactly take place in Tokyo so unless your DM is sending you through the desert, the north pole or the marianas trench, you're going to find a plant somewhere.
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Posted Jan 20, 2022Sentient pile of mulch
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Posted Jan 31, 2022The answer is simple, and the same for Speak With Dead. You're pretty much never in a rush when you want to cast those, so them being ritual spells would make them free ability to speak with everything. They would add too much extra planning to the DMs
Animals are at least sentient by default, and Speak With Animals is a 1st level spell, so the DM can easily predict that you might use it
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Posted May 20, 2022If you cast this spell and also speak with the dead you can interrogate furniture, which can be very useful!
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Posted Nov 13, 2022this is kinda a terrible example, there's tons of greenery in Tokyo, more than in most us cities
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Posted Mar 12, 2023Does this work on fungi?