Does the DM choose the creatures for conjure animals?

Does the DM choose the creatures for conjure animals?

Rules as Intended: the DM chooses the monster. The rules as written does not define who gets to pick what or how. However, the Sage Advice Compendium clarifies how the spell was intended to work by the designers: Some spells of this sort specify that the spellcaster chooses the creature conjured.

What Animals Can you summon with Conjure animals?

Conjure animals allows its caster to summon one of the following:

• One CR 2 beast.
• Two CR 1 beasts.
• Four CR ½ beasts.
• Eight CR ¼ beasts.

  What creatures can you summon with Conjure woodland beings?

  The spell Conjure Woodland Beings is a 4th lvl spell available to Druids and Rangers (and Bards who use their magical secrets on it). It allows you to summon 8 CR 1/4 fey creatures. That means you can summon 8 Pixies. Pixies can cast Polymorph once per day.

  Does conjure animals do magic damage?

  Yes, the damage is static or mostly static but typically you don’t bring summons and hirelings to combat for the damage, you bring it for the addition to your sides action economy.

  How does conjure Fey work?

  You summon a fey creature of challenge rating 6 or lower, or a fey spirit that takes the form of a beast of challenge rating 6 or lower. The fey creature disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends. The fey creature is friendly to you and your companions for the duration.

  Can you ride conjure animals 5e?

  Yes. The fact that the creatures were summoned makes no difference. The creatures are, by wording of the spell, also bound to obey any verbal commands of the caster, which will make them very reliable for such tasks as well.

  Do you have to read the spell description for conjured animals?

  It behooves any player whose PC learns conjure animals (or conjure woodland beings or conjure minor elementals) to read the spell description very closely, because it doesn’t necessarily do what you think it does. Unlike, say, find familiar, these spells don’t give you the privilege of choosing what kind of creature shows up.

  How do you summon beasts in conjure animals?

  You summon fey spirits that take the form of beasts and appear in unoccupied spaces that you can see within range. Choose one of the following options for what appears:

  How are conjured creatures related to player tactics?

  And, in fact, the tactics relating to conjured creatures are player tactics as much as they are creature tactics, if not more so. Conjure animals —along with the closely related spells conjure woodland beings and conjure minor elementals —is sometimes referred to as a “broken” spell.

  What are the names of the conjured monsters?

  1 Brown bear. Basic brute; no tactics to speak of. 2 Deinonychus. Send both deinos after a single target 25 to 40 feet away, so that they can Pounce. 3 Dire wolf. 4 Giant eagle. 5 Giant hyena. 6 Giant octopus. 7 Giant spider. 8 Giant toad. 9 Giant vulture.