You shape an illusory duplicate of one beast or humanoid that is within range for the entire casting time of the spell. The duplicate is a creature, partially real and formed from ice or snow, and it can take actions and otherwise be affected as a normal creature. It appears to be the same as the original, but it has half the creature's hit point maximum and is formed without any equipment. Otherwise, the illusion uses all the statistics of the creature it duplicates, except that it is a construct.
The simulacrum is friendly to you and creatures you designate. It obeys your spoken commands, moving and acting in accordance with your wishes and acting on your turn in combat. The simulacrum lacks the ability to learn or become more powerful, so it never increases its level or other abilities, nor can it regain expended spell slots.
If the simulacrum is damaged, you can repair it in an alchemical laboratory, using rare herbs and minerals worth 100 gp per hit point it regains. The simulacrum lasts until it drops to 0 hit points, at which point it reverts to snow and melts instantly.
If you cast this spell again, any duplicate you created with this spell is instantly destroyed.
* - (snow or ice in quantities sufficient to make a life-size copy of the duplicated creature; some hair, fingernail clippings, or other piece of that creature's body placed inside the snow or ice; and powdered ruby worth 1,500 gp, sprinkled over the duplicate and consumed by the spell)
Your the only person that seems to have noticed this comment high five XD
If your DM lets you, you could make a spell scroll of this spell, and then duplicate yourself with it so the duplicate has all your spell slots. Then you could have a bunch of copies with all your spell slots.
So does the simulacrum have the same number of hit die as the copied humanoid or is it halfed with the hit point maximum?
Can a simulacrum if a spellcaster use a Pearl of Power to regain spell slots overtime as 3rd level slots?
I'm curious if anyone has any opinions about this spell that does not involve making an infinite loop? This seems to have alot of interesting RP potential. Infiltrating enemy compounds and organizations. Kidnap a bad guy and send in a perfect copy of them to spy. Kidnap a noble and put your personal puppet on their throne. Copy yourself and never go into a sketchy situation that would risk your life again. More practically, make a copy of the party fighter or barb and have a nice personal bodyguard for your squishy caster. Power them up with buffs and watch them go. Heck, you could capture a trex and make a copy so you have 2 dinos to pull your war wagon. I like this spell from a narrative perspective. I'd hate to burden a DM with the infinite loop hack. Seems like a headache all around.
Cant do that the duplicates are constructs not humanoids or beast.
Frosty the Snowman Spell
How to make a mage army (you need a 14th level college of creation bard and a 13th level wizard):
After you are done with this you should have a vast army of wizards without needing to use any gold pieces to buy powdered ruby.
"To made..." in the first part of the material components. Shouldn't it be "to make?" Is that a typo? It's that way in the printed PHB i have too.
One of the best uses of this spell is to ignore the side effects of wish.
Your simulacrum doesnt need to make copies of itself. It can make copies of the original instead.
Made from ice or snow?!?!? Is there some reference for this, seems a strange material. I'd rather see materials similar to what was used by the characters in Fullmetal Alchemist when they attempted to bring back their mother:
Its a copy of the caster, so unless you have a dozen 7th level spells slots you can only do a very few amount of clones. As if it's supposed to make a copy, the spell slots expanded are also copied and the simulacrum also don't have those spell slots. Addendum: it's most likely impossible to even make more than one simulacrum since: "If you cast this spell again, any duplicate you created with this spell is instantly destroyed" and your duplicate is you, so as it casts simulacrum it instantly destroys itself. (unless you consider a duplicate as a different entity and than you would have 3 level 20 wizards with no 7th level spell slots)
Sorry for replying to a 3 years old comment but it just lives in my mind rent free and I want to do something about it.
Wait a moment. Wouldn't Simulacrum be kinda broken with the new Pact of the Genie Warlock? Do Mystic Arcanums count as spellslots? if they count as classfeatures then it would mean that a simulacrum COULD regain the use of the wish spell every day...
The possibilities would be endless!
If one is making a beast, good luck getting the beast to stay within range for the entire casting time.
My DM just had the final boss of our campaign have their minions cast this on them 9 times. I managed to counterspell one, but that’s 1 original and 8 simulacrums. We are a level 10 party. Though he also ruled that we only had to take down the original, and our Ranger had put a Hunter’s Mark on the original, so we knew who to focus.
He did this because we had been pulling BS all campaign. Killing 391 goblins in 1 day, casting Wall of force combined with Wind Wall and Wall of Fire to obliterate 20 giant scorpions without getting hit once, taking down a Hydra before it could attack once, and more. So it was only fair that the final boss would pull some BS too.
He still went down before his second turn. We had 5 party members, I had summoned 8 Steam Mephits, and the bard who took Conjure Elemental for magical secrets summoned a Fire Elemental. That’s a lot of damage per turn. But we didn’t take him down before the 9 of them knocked my Wizard out despite my 20 AC from +2 Dex, Mage Armor, and Shield, with 2 nat 20’s (though the rest rolled poorly and missed)
It was the first time in the campaign any of us actually got dropped to 0 HP!
10/10 would recommend having your Bosses have a Simulacrum. Very fun battle, and something your player’s may not expect!
If you cast this spell targeting yourself, would the simulacrum be missing at least one spell slot, the one used to cast this spell? If so that's a bit unfortunate, but I could understand that being the case.
Everyone always seems to want to break this spell and get like 200 million simulacrums, but I’m just fine with one. Even though their spell slots can’t be regained, a Wizard’s simulacrum can cast Cantrips to their heart’s content, and their spell slots can be treated like a limited use resource that lets you get off 2 leveled spells in one turn.
Your Simulacrum could use Mind Sliver to attempt to lower your opponent’s next save, and then you can hammer them with a disintegrate or some other powerful save spell if they fail Mind Sliver’s save.
Your Simulacrum can concentrate on a spell while you concentrate on a different one. Yes, all the good concentration spells are leveled spells, but using one of their spell slots on one could be helpful
If you’re a level 18+ Wizard, your simulacrum can spam your spell mastery spells to their heart’s content, as long as they have them prepared.
If you’re a level 20 Wizard, your simulacrum can cast your signature spells once each per long rest, since doing so doesn’t use a spell slot.
A simulacrum should be able to regain anything used to cast spells that isn’t a spell slot (RAW, at least. Apparently this was not RAI), since the spell specifically says they can’t regain spell slots. So if you make a simulacrum of a warlock who has an invocation that lets them cast a spell 1 time per long rest without using a spell slot, the simulacrum can regain that spell on a long rest as well.
A simulacrum of a warlock should also be able to regain Mystic Arcanum spells on a long rest, now that I think about it, since Arcanum spells don’t actually use spell slots. They can just cast them once per long rest. So that’s terrifying.
Also, if your simulacrum has their 9th level spell slot and has wish prepared, you can have them revive you in the case of your death, no matter what the source, since it’s wish. Or they could just use wish to replicate the effects of a revival spell, with a 1 action casting time. Though in order for your simulacrum to have their 9th level spell slot, you would have to cast the spell not using Wish, so you have to do the full 12 hour casting and have the material components.
Agree 100%. I don't know why this spell hasn't been errata'd yet. They should change "If you cast this spell again, any duplicate you created with this spell is instantly destroyed" to the following, "If you attempt to cast this spell again while a duplicate you created exists, the spell fails. Only one simulacrum of a creature may exist at any given time. Attempting to create multiple simulacrum of a creature causes the spell to fail."
This provides two limitations upon the spell. Most importantly, it stops the wish-chain BS first and foremost, but also causes one to have a care for their simulacrum, for if it were to be captured and held prisoner, the caster would have to track it down and dispel it before they could create another simulacrum of themselves again.
As for uses, I enjoy using a single simulacrum (as I believe the rules are intended), which I then true polymorph into a Pit Fiend. It's tank stats, fireball at will, and ability to still cast Eldritch Blast (no Material component) means it can just keep going on and on. It generally just uses reaction spells when needed, like Shield, Absorb Elements, and Counterspell. Because it's no longer a Construct, it can be healed normally, which gives it a lot of staying power. I give it a Hat of Disguise so it can attempt to pass itself off as a Half Ogre bodyguard in populated areas.
I only have 1 question in hope to end this long thread.
Can a Simulacrum talk?
Nowhere in the spell does it say it can speak.
"It obeys your spoken commands, moving and acting in accordance with your wishes and acting on your turn in combat."
So sure you create one and tell it to create another simulacrum.... can it tell the next one to create another?
It only obeys SPOKEN commands.
Wizard: My eternal conquest begins today!!!! Creates Simulacrum A.
Wizard: A create B
Simulacrum A creates Simulacrum B
Wizard: Now ask B to create C!!!
....cricket sounds....
Short lived conquest....but you get my point ; p
Wish makes it WAY faster