When the creature appears, it is under no compulsion to behave in any particular way. Or is it more neutral like what you might get with Planar Ally, where The summoned creatures are friendly to you and your companions. Is it positive like that of, in your example, a conjured animal, where: Take a good look at all the text of the spell, and try to figure out the attitude of the creature towards its summoner.
They're bound by the spell to obey your instructions, but if you don't give any, it makes perfect sense for them to defend against whatever would attack them but otherwise to be as passive as they can get away with, they don't really have an incentive to do anything else. Bear in mind that most of those type of spells works by whisking away some spirit, presumably from another plane, from whatever else they were doing, putting it into the form of whatever you summoned and dropping it right in the middle of some combat that they don't really have a stake or interest at. I don't think it's as unreasonable as you think. If you don’t issue any, it takes the Dodge action and uses its move to avoid danger.Īs the former seems to be primarily used in PHB and the latter is used in its place in similar spells by later sourcebooks, I am be inclined to believe the intention was to clarify "defend themselves from hostile creatures" into "takes the Dodge action and uses its move to avoid danger" and that's how I would treat it unless there is some other action specified in the spell block. If you don't issue any commands to them, they defend themselves from hostile creatures, but otherwise take no actions. It's not defined well but there is a precedent for the Dodge Action There needs to be an action cost on the summoner's end to balance out all the new possible Attack Actions that come with adding more creatures to the fight.
Now that Bonus Action is available for something else healing word, misty step, second wind, two-weapon fighting, etc. But when you have one, that can be very important (extra attacks, spells, healing) all that do not interfere with your normal Action for your turn.īy changing all these summons to say, "You can go ahead and attack freely," you are giving back that extra slot for characters. The reason that conjured creatures, summoned creatures, the steel defender, the wildfire spirit, the homunculus servant, and any number more all include a variation on the phrase ".but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action," is that there needs to be a cost to the owner/summoner.īonus actions are not a given, you only can take one if a feature says you can.
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