Oh nice, simulacrums can't cast simulacrum anymore. Thank god!

Wow huge nerf to this spell specifying now that it can't take short or long rests: any class feature that resets on SR/LR is now completely expended on use. No more sorcerers abusing sorc points to cast spells with a sim without "loosing" their actual spell slots. 

I'm mixed on this...it was a ridiculously powerful spell to begin with.

A spell like this really shouldn't exist as an option for players at all. Any nerf it gets is entirely deserved, it literally lets you create another you with all your same powers which used to be able to stack multiple times.

So a Simulacrum can't cast Simulacrum..but they're not blocked from casting Wish..is the infinite Simulacrum exploit fixed or nah? 

So. Does it just die in 6 days from exhaustion? Without the ability to take a short or long rest?

I think that as a construct it doesn't need to sleep, eat and so on

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So a Simulacrum can't cast Simulacrum..but they're not blocked from casting Wish..is the infinite Simulacrum exploit fixed or nah? 

 One could argue that using Wish to replicate simulacrum is still casting simulacrum...but barring that interpretation, at high enough levels infinite simulacrums are still theoretically possible. The fact that simulacrums can't take long rests, and are thus unable to cast a ninth level spell more than once, might slow the process down a little though.

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So a Simulacrum can't cast Simulacrum..but they're not blocked from casting Wish..is the infinite Simulacrum exploit fixed or nah? 

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One nice idea to reduce craft times is to simulacrum yourself (crafter/artisan) to cut craft time in half

That would be a very expensive way to do that considering hirelings or other players can also help with crafting.

They can then craft mundane or magical items with artisan tools while you adventure though, nice option if you don’t get 8 hour work days. Since they are an illusion/construct possibly the simulacrum could work more than 1, 8 hour work day on it per day.

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So a Simulacrum can't cast Simulacrum..but they're not blocked from casting Wish..is the infinite Simulacrum exploit fixed or nah? 

 It does state that the simulacrum is unable to cast spells, so casting Wish is off the table.
Though, it should still be able to activate magic items, so something like a Ring of Three Wishes might work.


My apologies!
I just realized it states "...it can’t cast this spell" rather than barring it from casting ANY spell.
So, yeah, Wish seems to still be on the table.

If you have 14 levels in wizard and 7 levels in sorcerer, can meta magic twinned spell work on Simulacrum?

One thing I noticed is that is says "one beast or humanoid", so characters whos species is fey like changelings just can't use this spell at all. Not sure I like that, and it may be an oversight to  remove the use of a spell from a whole group of PCs. Pretty easy to get your dm to overrule this, but still.

Nystul's Magic Aura (https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/2619124-nystuls-magic-aura) lets you change your creature type, so if you are a wizard just learn that spell and cast it first.  Tho you are a bard getting this via magical secrets it's a bit more of an investment to get both.

Hm that is true I never thought of that. It's a little more inconvenient but I guess it would work. Thanks!

They didn't fix the Wish-Simulacrum exploit lol

(Casting Wish to cast a lower-level spell doesn't cast that spell, it simply creates the effect of the desired spell. RAW, the exploit still works.)

i dosnt have to.... wish

damn you can't bind magic items on it as well

the new simulacrum would be a copy of you, not the simulacrum, so it would still have its 9th level spell slot, and so on, and so on.