Create Homunculus

A
Support

Create Homunculus is a Support spell. Support spells strengthen, protect, or buff allies.

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 spell that
summons a loyal homunculus

Create Homunculus is a Summoning spell. Summoning spells create new allies.

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 to aid you, sharing your vitality and
improving your action economy

Create Homunculus is a Action Economy spell. Action Economy spells grant you more choices on future turns.

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2014 Rules
Level & School
6th-level transmutation
Casting Time
1 hour
Range
Touch
Components
V, S, M (clay, ash, and mandrake root, all of which the spell consumes, and a jewel-encrusted dagger worth at least 1,000 gp)
Duration
Instantaneous
Classes
Wizard
Source
Xanathar's Guide to Everything

While speaking an intricate incantation, you cut yourself with a jewel-encrusted dagger, taking 2d4 piercing damage that can't be reduced in any way. You then drip your blood on the spell's other components and touch them, transforming them into a special construct called a homunculus.

The statistics of the homunculus are in the Monster Manual. It is your faithful companion, and it dies if you die. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can spend up to half your Hit Dice if the homunculus is on the same plane of existence as you. When you do so, roll each die and add your Constitution modifier to it. Your hit point maximum is reduced by the total, and the homunculus's hit point maximum and current hit points are both increased by it. This process can reduce you to no lower than 1 hit point, and the change to your and the homunculus's hit points ends when you finish your next long rest. The reduction to your hit point maximum can't be removed by any means before then, except by the homunculus's death.

You can have only one homunculus at a time. If you cast this spell while your homunculus lives, the spell fails.

Create Homunculus 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences

Create Homunculus is currently only available in the 2014 edition.

Create Homunculus popularity

How popular is Create Homunculus? It is one of the rarest spells in the game, and is chosen less than other options when available. This spell is for the most unconventional spellcasters only.

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