You summon fiends that appear in unoccupied spaces that you can see within range. If you decide to summon a mixture of devils and demons, you must have both the meat and charcoal when casting this spell. Choose one of the following options for what appears:
- One fiend of challenge rating 2 or lower
- Two fiends of challenge rating 1 or lower
- Four fiends of challenge rating 1/2 or lower
- Eight fiends of challenge rating 1/4 or lower
Each fiend disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends.
The summoned creatures are friendly to you and your companions. Roll initiative for the summoned creatures as a group, which has its own turns. They loosely obey verbal commands that you issue to them (no action required by you). If you don't issue any commands to them, they defend themselves against hostile creatures, but may also take actions that might not be wanted and lead to mischief.
The DM has the fiends' statistics.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using certain higher-level spell slots, you choose one of the summoning options above, and more creatures appear: twice as many with a 5th-level slot, three times as many with a 7th-level slot, and four times as many with a 9th-level slot.
* - (half a pound of fresh meat for devils, half a pound of charcoal for demons)