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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 4375448" data-attributes="member: 29252">No real limit (other than XP and character wealth), but there's a serious problem with (at least, with the MMI standard; check the ones he's using - do they inherit from the base critter or have similar wording?) <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/homunculus.htm" target="_blank">Homunculus</a> if you've got more than a handful:They have to remain relatively close at all times, if they're killed you take 2d10 damage, and Homunculii have poor saves, few hit points, and a low AC.  One well-placed Fireball and the Homunculii Master is dead, without ever touching the artificer.  If he uses them in combat, it's a self-solving problem.  The only thing they're actually useful for is lone scouts - and even for that, you only want one or two at a time, tops, and they stop being useful at that around 10th level, when every monkey and it's uncle will have a Spot fit to beat their Hide.Edit:This isn't how to break an Artificer.  Now, high caster level Oils of Animate Dead (Cleric version of the spell)?  That can get nasty (each character in the party can control a number of HD of undead equal to the 4*Artificer's effective caster level for making potions).  The gatling ray build gets nasty.  This?  Not so much.</blockquote>