That's a very good question! I think you mainly need to ask your DM if they'd be cool with it. (It's gonna be relevant to my character too, expensive gems seem a little harder to come by in the module we're playing through.)
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It specifies that the body forms around it and that you choose the appearance. Nothing stopping you from saying it has a door that you can open to give the heart a little tickle. Still a good idea to clear it with your DM though.
The infustion's text says "... The item you infuse serves as the creature’s heart, around which the creature’s body instantly forms. You determine the homunculus’s appearance. Some artificers prefer mechanical-looking birds, whereas some like winged vials or miniature, animate cauldrons."
You'd have to ask your DM whether your control of appearance could extend to access routes to touch the heart is up to or whether the DM could give you discrepancy to touch the body as if touching the heart.
The spellcasting rules specify that "A spellcaster must have a hand free to access a spell's material components" which I think suggests you'd normally have to touch them.
If you use a pearl as the creatures heart, could you also use it to cast identify spell?
That's a very good question! I think you mainly need to ask your DM if they'd be cool with it. (It's gonna be relevant to my character too, expensive gems seem a little harder to come by in the module we're playing through.)
Helpful rewriter of Japanese->English translation and delver into software codebases (she/e/they)
It specifies that the body forms around it and that you choose the appearance. Nothing stopping you from saying it has a door that you can open to give the heart a little tickle. Still a good idea to clear it with your DM though.
The infustion's text says "... The item you infuse serves as the creature’s heart, around which the creature’s body instantly forms.
You determine the homunculus’s appearance. Some artificers prefer mechanical-looking birds, whereas some like winged vials or miniature, animate cauldrons."
You'd have to ask your DM whether your control of appearance could extend to access routes to touch the heart is up to or whether the DM could give you discrepancy to touch the body as if touching the heart.
The spellcasting rules specify that "A spellcaster must have a hand free to access a spell's material components" which I think suggests you'd normally have to touch them.
If I choose say a visl of acid as my humoculus' heart would it bleed acid?
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It needs to be "a gem worth at least 100gp".
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