![]() ![]() So in a campaign featuring a plethora of animated objects, this player would urge the DM to rollback the Spell Compendium's decision to conflate minor servitor and awaken construct. Painfully, were, for example, a player to desire to have his PC make permanent animated objects in isolation (and because the spell permanency isn't, for example, (so far as I'm aware) available as a domain spell), this particular combination of spells and caster levels requires a creature take a prestige class like mystic theurge so that the PC can (eventually!) cast spells both as a Wiz14 and Clr11. So, officially and using only spells, a combination of the 6th-level Clr spell animate objects ( PH 199) and the 5th-level Sor/Wiz spell permanency ( PH 259-60) is the sole way to make permanent animated objects… and they're under control of the caster of the spell animate objects. Insult to injury: the Spell Compendium spell awaken construct was already published… as the spell awaken construct in Savage Species. The Spell Compendium's list of Renamed Spells (5-6) says that minor servitor was "renamed before inclusion in this book" as the 9th-level Sor/Wiz spell awaken construct ( SpC 21), which is a totally different spell with a wholly different effect. O, and it's fun.īut the spell must've made someone in editorial very angry. Further, the spell conveniently fills some narrative gaps. And were that to happen, foes can use an effect that dispels magic to end the minor servitor spell's effect. ft./level), only the most dedicated wizard-given the spell's cost and time to cast-is making with the spell an army. The spell minor servitor is a good spell-it's not particularly powerful, it's difficult to abuse, and, while it relies on the DM to adjudicate some of its effects (this DM, for instance, wishes the spell affected lbs./level instead of the more-difficult-to-determine cu. ![]() (If you're curious-I was!-a Wiz20 can affect with the spell minor servitor material fitting into about the space occupied by the typical household refrigerator.) The object-that-is-now-a-creature's new ability scores are randomly rolled, and it's friendly toward the caster, and it had better be: the spell's effect is dismissible. ft./level "mobility and a semblance of life" the spell costs the caster 250 XP per cu. The spell allows the wizard to spend one day casting the spell then touch an object to permanently (not instantaneously!) grant a mundane object (or mass of similar material) of up to 1 cu. There was an alternative to casting animate objects then permanencyīetween the publication Savage Species (2003) and the original Spell Compendium (2005), animated objects both permanent and intelligent were created via the 5th-level Sor/Wiz spell minor servitor ( Savage Species 68-9). ![]()
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