Animate Construct in Dungeons & Dragons 5e

SRD

Animate Construct

1-level Transmutation

Casting Time: 1 action

Range/Area: 30 feet

Components: VSM

Materials: a construct body of appropriate size

Duration: Concentration, Up to 10 minutes

This spell animates a carefully prepared construct of Tiny size. The object acts immediately, on your turn, and can attack your opponents to the best of its ability. You can direct it not to attack, to attack particular enemies, or to perform other actions. You choose the object to animate, and you can change that choice each time you cast the spell. The cost of the body to be animated is 10 gp x its hit points. The body can be reused any number of times, provided it isn't severely damaged or destroyed.If no prepared construct body is available, you can animate a mass of loose metal or stone instead. Before casting, the loose objects must be arranged in a suitable shape (taking up to a minute), and the construct's hit points are halved.An animated construct has a Constitution of 10, Intelligence and Wisdom of 3, and Charisma of 1. Other characteristics are determined by the construct's size as follows.

Size	HP	AC	Attack	Strength	Dexterity	Spell Slot
Tiny	15	12	+3, 1d4+4	4	16	1st
Small	25	13	+4, 1d8+2	6	14	2nd
Medium	40	14	+5, 2d6+1	10	12	3rd
Large	50	15	+6, 2d10+2	14	10	4th
Huge	80	16	+8, 2d12+4	18	8	5th
Gargantuan	100	17	+10, 4d6+6	20	6	6th

At higher levels: Casting this spell using higher level spell slots allows you to increase the size of the construct animated, as shown on the table.

Available for: Artificer, Wizard

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