Servant Army

5th-level conjuration (ritual) (Artificer,Bard,Warlock,Wizard)

  • Casting Time: 1 action
  • Range: 90 feet
  • Components: V, S, M (a small stick crossbar to which many lengths of knotted thread are attached)
  • Duration: Up to 1 hour

You create a number of invisible, mindless, shapeless forces that perform simple tasks at your command. Roll 3d4 to determine how many servants you create. Each servant obeys any verbal commands that you issue (no action required by you). However, if you don't issue any commands, a servant does nothing as it awaits your next command.

Once you give a command, each servant performs its task to the best of its ability until its task is completed. It then waits for your next command. Your servants can run and fetch things, open unstuck doors, and hold chairs as well as clean and mend. A servant can also be used for common laborious tasks, if you carefully direct it. The servants are no better or faster at tasks than a basic or unskilled commoner would be.

The servants can serve food or wine at a banquet, help dig earthworks, row a ship, act as porters, fold clothes, or assist in a farmer's fields. Each servant can perform only one activity at a time, but it repeats the same activity continuously if told to do so. This allows you to command one servant to perform a repetitive task and then turn your attention elsewhere if you remain within range.

Servants can open only normal doors, drawers, lids, and so forth. They have an effective Strength score of 2 (so they can carry 30 pounds, and push, drag, or lift 60 pounds). They can trigger traps and such, but they can exert only 60 pounds of force, and that is not enough to activate certain pressure plates and other devices. A servant's speed is 15 feet.

The servants cannot attack in any way, and are never allowed to make an attack roll. The servants have an Armor Class of 10 and 6 hit points. The servants cannot be killed, but they dissipate after taking 6 points of damage. (They do not make saving throws). If you attempt to send a servant beyond the spell's range (measured from your current position), that servant ceases to exist.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, you create 1d4 additional servants for every slot level above 5th. When you cast it using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, the spell's duration increases to 8 hours.