Flock of Familiars
2014 Rules
- Level & School
- 2nd-level conjuration
- Casting Time
- 1 minute
- Range
- Touch
- Components
- V, S
- Duration
- Concentration, 1 hour
- Classes
- Warlock, Wizard
- Source
- Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
You temporarily summon three familiars—spirits that take animal forms of your choice. Each familiar uses the same rules and options for a familiar conjured by the find familiar spell. All the familiars conjured by this spell must be the same type of creature (celestials, fey, or fiends; your choice). If you already have a familiar conjured by the find familiar spell or similar means, then one fewer familiars are conjured by this spell.
Familiars summoned by this spell can telepathically communicate with you and share their visual or auditory senses while they are within 1 mile of you.
When you cast a spell with a range of touch, one of the familiars conjured by this spell can deliver the spell, as normal. However, you can cast a touch spell through only one familiar per turn.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, you conjure an additional familiar for each slot level above 2nd.
Flock of Familiars 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences
Flock of Familiars is currently only available in the 2014 edition.
Flock of Familiars popularity
How popular is Flock of Familiars? It is one of the rarest spells in the game, and it is almost never chosen when available. This spell is virtually unheard of in most campaigns, but you can change that.
- Bottom 10% of all 5e spells
- Bottom 10% picked level 2 Warlock spell
- Bottom 10% of all level 2 spells
- Bottom 10% picked level 2 Wizard spell
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Homunculus Servant 2nd-level conjuration
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Unseen Servant 1st-level conjuration
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