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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6820681" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!I wouldn't...your DM is correct. When I read it, it says what you can do...you can choose the CR and you can choose what it does by issuing a verbal command. By excluding saying that you can choose what exactly and where, to me, that is telling.Now, that said, I believe the spirit of the rules should allow for the druid to choose a general 'purpose' of creature...as that makes sense in a narrative way to me. I can see a druid that is laying there, left for dead with two broken legs, "asking the spirits of the Fey to send a swift beast that can deliver a message to someone" (e.g., the player says "I want something fast, preferably a bird"). Or a druid who is going into a desperate battle asking for a "ferocious beast to fight by his side". Then the intent of the druid's wishes are used by the DM to choose an animal...so a hawk maybe in the first example, or some wolves, apes, or bear for the second.If you present this argument (that you should be able to have some say in the type) to your DM , you probably won't be completely happy and neither will he...making it a perfect compromise. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Oh, and the whole "choose the location" thing? Just make sure you are looking down at the ground in front of you so that the only thing "within sight" is maybe 20' or so directly in front of you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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