Yeah, you could easily reflavor component-requiring Animal Friendship as “just feeding the animal and somehow flawlessly avoiding harm”, just to make it ambiguous whether this is actually magic or just mundane.
Good news! The 5e Artificer is the perfect class for spell flavoring and it’s actually written into their class. From Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, page 11:
Yeah, you could easily reflavor component-requiring Animal Friendship as “just feeding the animal and somehow flawlessly avoiding harm”, just to make it ambiguous whether this is actually magic or just mundane.
I wish artificers were this instead of true casters.
Good news! The 5e Artificer is the perfect class for spell flavoring and it’s actually written into their class. From Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, page 11: