
Choose one of the following options for what appears: You summon fey spirits that take the form of beasts and appear in unoccupied spaces that you can see within range. The only thing you’re assured of is how many creatures show up. They don’t even let you dictate how powerful the summoned creature(s) will be. Unlike, say, find familiar, these spells don’t give you the privilege of choosing what kind of creature shows up. It behooves any player whose PC learns conjure animals (or conjure woodland beings or conjure minor elementals) to read the spell description very closely, because it doesn’t necessarily do what you think it does.

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So one of the things I’ll talk about is how to keep this from happening. Rather, it’s the fact that this hitch encourages casters to summon as many creatures as possible, causing combat to bog down badly-over and over and over again. It’s not necessarily that the spell is excessively powerful in fact, as we’ll see, it comes with a built-in hitch that can have just the opposite effect.

And, in fact, the tactics relating to conjured creatures are player tactics as much as they are creature tactics, if not more so.Ĭonjure animals-along with the closely related spells conjure woodland beings and conjure minor elementals-is sometimes referred to as a “broken” spell.

Today’s post is as much for players as it is for Dungeon Masters, because creatures summoned by conjure animals are as often found fighting alongside player characters as against them.
