We welcome DMing questions, DMing advice or tools to help DMs old and new. The aim of this subreddit is to serve as a platform for learning to DM. But i don't thnk that's the fault of the summoning mechanic and more of the specific options available.Īnyway, if a spell is meant to be unreliable, it should say so clearly AND give you something pretty darn powerful for that element of randomness.Before Submitting a Question, Please Check our Rules Remove All Need Advice See Advice Only See Resources Only Join the Discord After that my go-to was Giant spiders or Giant Frogs for the range grapple options. Me and the Warlock took out two slavers caravan with nothing but my wolves and me and some Eldritch Blasts. When I had a Druid I quickly realized there wasn't much that 8 wolves couldn't solve. Now, granted, some options are just too good. I mean, the PHB already has animals for Conjure Animals. Players who want to play the Summoner don't want to gamble with what they can summon, they want to be able to be strategic and pick the right creature for the job.Īnd if the player can take care of the stats it's a lower burden on the DM. It also totally fails at its intended archetype of the Summoner. It's just a recipe for arguments at the table and wasting spell slots. Not only does it mean the spell is just badly worded (why doesn't it specifies it instead of this ambivalent thing?) but if you pick say 'One X type of creature of challenge rating 2 or lower' then the DM can screw you over and just give you a single 1/4 creature instead, or give you a fish out of water and so forth. If they wanted to use natural language, they should have been prepared to explicitly define every intent. Natural language is, and always will be, open to interpretation. We all know it's the player's choice, but the same sort of logic being used to argue the point in the excerpt above could easily lead you to the conclusion that it isn't. For instance, a Druid's Wild Shape says "Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before" but doesn't explicitly say it's the player's choice. This is a large part of the problem with 5e's use of natural language in spell descriptions, wherein Crawford acts as if he used formal language.
The DM will often choose creatures that are appropriate for the campaign and that will be fun to introduce in a scene.īeing RAI means it is not explicitly called out in the rules and thus whether or not someone agrees with this ruling is up in the air. For example, if you pick the second option, the DM chooses the two elementals that have a challenge rating of 1 or lower.Ī spellcaster can certainly express a preference for what creatures shows up, but it's up to the DM to determine if they do. The design intent for options like these is that the spellcaster chooses one of them, and then the DM decides what creatures appear that fit the chosen option.
One elemental of challenge rating 2 or lower.For example, conjure minor elementals offers four options. Other spells of this sort let the spellcaster choose from among several broad options.
For example, find familiar gives the caster a list of animals to choose from. Some spells of this sort specify that the spellcaster chooses the creature conjured. Conjure animals, conjure celestial, conjure minor elementals, and conjure woodland beings are just a few examples. When you cast a spell like conjure woodland beings, does the spellcaster or the DM choose the creatures that are conjured?Ī number of spells in the game let you summon creatures. When you cast this spell using certain higher-level spell slots, you choose one of the summoning options above, and more creatures appear: twice as many with a 6th-level slot and three times as many with an 8th-level slot. If you don’t issue any commands to them, they defend themselves from hostile creatures, but otherwise take no actions.Īt Higher Levels. They obey any verbal commands that you issue to them (no action required by you). Roll initiative for the summoned creatures as a group, which have their own turns. The summoned creatures are friendly to you and your companions. Eight fey creatures of challenge rating 1/4 or lowerĪ summoned creature disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends.Four fey creatures of challenge rating 1/2 or lower.
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