Conjure Animals is also incredibly versatile for role play and diversion tactics. Beasts that can act as a meat shield to help protect and divert attention away from squishier party members, while boosting overall offensive output moderately without it being too overwhelming for the DM. I typically stick with CR 1 creatures like Brown Bears and Tigers. In exchange for being reasonable and efficient with the spell my DM agreed to give my character control over what specifically is summoned. Personally, to help simplify my turn, as well as not overly bog things down I strictly stick to summoning 2 to 4 creatures max. Clarify that up, but I think everyone agrees that the player should be the one choosing them, have their stat sheets prepared alongside the art for them or descriptions, it saves so much hustle from the DM and number crunching.Īlso, the spell may say that you need to roll initiative for every single conjured animal but I would recommend the initiative to be put at your own turn or just right after, its just easier imo, and wouldnt say its a buff or nerf.Īnother important advice I can give is, make the attack of multiple conjuree animals (if they are CR 1/8) as a group, its a lot easier to roll two dices with advantage than to roll 16 dices and then roll another 8 for their Saves. THE ONLY thing you have to worry about is the rules about conjure spells, because RAI the DM chooses the summoned animals but RAW it can be either the player or DM. It's not much worse than fireball if you run it that way.Ĭonjure animals is your fireball equivalent, you dont have to take it, but its so absurdly good it would be a bad ideea not to.Īside from that, you dont have to cast 8 wolves or 8 of any animals but its the most optimal use of it (action economy is important and wolves in packs is the reason why level 1-3 adventures are scared to go into forests, lmao) A CR1 animal won't really be tanking and if its unlucky enough it may absorb one attack and die, meanwhile the enemy has to make 8 attacks for each cr 1/8 creature, either that or use a costly resource like spells. Ok, fighter, you see this mass of fur and blood already overwhelming the enemy, what do you do.?' They need an 11 to hit, so half of them connect, dealing 7 damage each. Ok, now wolf #2 attacks.'Ĭompare to: player: 'I command the wolves to advance and attack the goblins.'ĭM: 'Ok, the 8 wolves rush across the battlefield, snarling and howling and slavering. But, the goblin has to make a Strength save or be knocked prone. Does that hit the goblin, DM? Ok, let me roll damage. oh wait, first I am going to move wolf #2. Let's see, with Pack Tactics they get advantage. And then wolf #1 will bite the goblin in front of it. What kills play is the druid player going, like, 'Ok, let's see. I use mob combat rules from the DMG so no dice are rolled. As a DM, I let my druid player give one command per round to their animals, which they generally try to follow, but I control them (they're NPCs, after all).

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