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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6213375" data-attributes="member: 221">I think you are misunderstanding me, Hussar. I am not saying the dwarf simulacrum never has darkvision; I am saying the guarantee is not there.  The spell is very open ended to allow DMs to craft a story using the spell in the way they think best. Outwardly, the simulacrum is a copy.  But its actually only partly real.  The spell text itself makes this clear - it only appears to be the original, its actually only a copy and an imperfect copy at that. You want a better copy, then you want the clone spell (level 8). So yes, its is sort of a copy; its not a carbon copy. I do think the lack of identifying the type of the creature is a weakness of the spell text (there are some points of clarity that could be made; creature type being the foremost in my mind). I would personally tend to rule that it is immune to mind affecting effects (how do you charm an illusion?) but that it suffers from magics that might target the original creature type or race, such as bane.  It would not, imo, be immune to crits and the like, but it might not actually have internal organs as we know them (its magically made of snow and ice).  Alignment is an open question - probably it has the alignment of the creator, as it is under his control, but again, for a DM creation, that's open.  But that's the point - the entire spell is open to DM interpretation. Now, when a player casts the spell, the DM has to make some rulings.  Likely through discussion and negotiation with the player, these sort of details will be hammered out each time, but its going to be different every single time it is cast, from game to game. The purpose is not to disadvantage the player though. If my players wanted to do something cool with the spell, I would probably go along with them.  If they just wanted to see what special abilities they could control, we would have an intense negotiation about it. If they wanted to simply craft a wizard capable of making low level potions and scrolls while they were out adventuring, I would allow it, actually. Don't have any problem with that. And such a thing might even open up some interesting story possibilities. If they want to craft a demon that can grant wishes, they are going to find that pretend demons can only pretend to cast wishes.  But again, each use has to be decided on a case by case basis.</blockquote>

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