From the comments on the Homunculus Servant, I gather that it is a variant of the Homunculus from an older D&D than 5e...
However, this did pique my interest in the possibilities of homunculi that I was hoping the community could help verify the limitations of RAW and/or if it is a homebrew that DMs would be hard to accept:
1. The description states that this variant has an item you infuse to serve as the homunculus' heart:
a) does this mean that the recipe of an Eberron: Rising of the Last War homunculi are made using a different recipe?
b) Are their limitations to what you use as the homunculus' heart? Like can you use a Sending Stone, so that your little buddy can double as a mental walkie talkie? (This could open up new ways for telepathy avoiding spell slots)... Or a soul cage to turn that pesky necromancer into a butterfly, negating their prepared clone...
2. In the Create Homunculus spell, one of the components are 2d4 worth of blood:
2a and 1c) Do the qualities of the blood/item you use in the ritual to create your homunculus affect its abilities? For example, if a changeling makes one with a raven's vocal box as the heart, would the homunculus gain the ability to shapeshift and mimicry? Or a potion to grant it a healing/magical ability?
b) Does the spell caster have to use their own blood? I was thinking of ways that a rogue or shadow monk (who could use a familiar) might be able to hire a wizard to make one for them... While the rules say "you cut yourself" and "you can only have one homunculus", I wonder if a wizard could act as a medium, or cast Suggestion or Magic Jar to take control of a willing client in order to grant others a homunculus.
c) What happens if a wizard created a homunculus when he was struck with lycanthrope, but then has that condition cured? As the blood changed, does the loyalty of the homunculus change?
3. The homunculus stat block states their bite causes a poisoned condition:
a)Does this affect creatures resistant to poison, or only reduced by condition immunities?
b) Is this specialty cultivatable like snake venom?
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From the comments on the Homunculus Servant, I gather that it is a variant of the Homunculus from an older D&D than 5e...
However, this did pique my interest in the possibilities of homunculi that I was hoping the community could help verify the limitations of RAW and/or if it is a homebrew that DMs would be hard to accept:
1. The description states that this variant has an item you infuse to serve as the homunculus' heart:
a) does this mean that the recipe of an Eberron: Rising of the Last War homunculi are made using a different recipe?
b) Are their limitations to what you use as the homunculus' heart? Like can you use a Sending Stone, so that your little buddy can double as a mental walkie talkie? (This could open up new ways for telepathy avoiding spell slots)... Or a soul cage to turn that pesky necromancer into a butterfly, negating their prepared clone...
2. In the Create Homunculus spell, one of the components are 2d4 worth of blood:
2a and 1c) Do the qualities of the blood/item you use in the ritual to create your homunculus affect its abilities? For example, if a changeling makes one with a raven's vocal box as the heart, would the homunculus gain the ability to shapeshift and mimicry? Or a potion to grant it a healing/magical ability?
b) Does the spell caster have to use their own blood? I was thinking of ways that a rogue or shadow monk (who could use a familiar) might be able to hire a wizard to make one for them... While the rules say "you cut yourself" and "you can only have one homunculus", I wonder if a wizard could act as a medium, or cast Suggestion or Magic Jar to take control of a willing client in order to grant others a homunculus.
c) What happens if a wizard created a homunculus when he was struck with lycanthrope, but then has that condition cured? As the blood changed, does the loyalty of the homunculus change?
3. The homunculus stat block states their bite causes a poisoned condition:
a)Does this affect creatures resistant to poison, or only reduced by condition immunities?
b) Is this specialty cultivatable like snake venom?