So unless you play Homebrew or need a DM save for your party Animate Objects beats Conjure Animals except for the spell slot situation. Meaning Conjure Animals can be used for more than just combat. Conjure Animals lasts an hour while Animate Objects lasts 1 minute. While the rules say the DM chooses the summons, you can certainly suggest summons to him and I have personally never had an issue where my DM veto's a Conjure Animals summons.Ħ. Conversely, if you have a pack of wolves between you and the caster, you kind of have to deal with the wolves.ĥ. Yes tiny is good for enclosed spaces but if you are a squishy caster, but any half-way intelligent enemy isn't going to try and swat coins out of the air when there is a caster they could be attacking.

Conjure Animals is a level 3 spell and upcasting to level 5 for equivalence gives you 16 CR 1/4 beasts vs. Even discounting Constrictor Snakes, many CR 1/4 beasts have some CC component.ģ. 8 Constrictor Snakes each restraining an enemy is going to nerf a combat much more than 8 tiny objects. While damage is obviously good, CC is OP. Commanding Animate Objects uses a Bonus Action while Conjure Animals is no action required.Ģ. I will go against popular opinion and say I prefer Conjure Animals for a few reasons:ġ. Which do you guys like better? Any other advantages of each? I’m not trying to start another magical secrets debate. Obviously the DM could choose something else but most other choices have some other advantages. So the tiny objects are tougher and can fit in smaller spaces, but the wolves could do more damage and possibly knock a target prone. Let’s use wolves for comparison.Īnimate objects = 10 tiny objects HP20, AC18, +8 d4+4 = 65 average on hitsĬonjure animals = 16 wolves HP11, AC13, +4 (advantage) 2d4+2 = 112 average plus DC 11 or prone for each hit In that case we could get 16 CR ¼ creatures.

But to compare it to animate objects we should look at casting conjure animals with a level 5 slot, getting twice as many creatures as the 3rd level version. I can cast conjure animals as a 3rd level spell, though, so I’ll have access to it 3 levels sooner, which should be significant since our adventure is only planned to go to 10-11. But as I compare it to animate objects, which I love, I think it is a better spell. I didn’t consider it at first since it overlaps with animate objects and we have an evoker in the party that won’t be able to sculpt out all of the animals at the same time. And then there's magic items.So I’ve been working on a lore bard and when I asked for suggestions for level 6 magical secrets, conjure animals came up. Polymorph also is unbelievably broken in terms of game balance.Īnd don't even get me started on other spells like Shield and Guidance. If you were following the rules, these conjuration spells would effectively just break the game. You can also mix and match what you pick with conjure _ spells to give you more versatility. There are others for each spell but those are the main heavy hitters.

Either way they're all pretty good and you can get an infinite number of them. It does say it's left up to the DMs choice of what charm you get though. These seem to stack and they don't seem to ever go away. That means that a lvl 7 Druid could cast this spell, get 8 mites and make it so the most powerful enemy I can think of (Tiamat, a literal god) would be rolling on average a 1-2 to hit (that's 1d20+19-8d6).Ĭonjure Elemental - Get 8 chwingas. That's an -8d6 on basically everything a creature can do. It seems like this ability does in fact stack based off of what I can see. Spells don't stack in 5e but it says nothing about monster abilities. All VERY good spells and polymorph is arguably broken as well (but that's a different topic). Most notably 8 casts of: confusion, dispel magic, fly, polymorph, and sleep. Now you've just effectively converted one 4th level spell into 80 spells. Since they have advantage they are more likely to roll a nat 20 to hit which is an auto hit and crit against anything in 5e.Ĭonjure Woodland Beings - Get 8 pixies. Sure, they all can die pretty easily but the action economy of the combat is destroyed. Conjure animals - Get 8 wolves and most attack with advantage.

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