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<blockquote data-quote="Pickles III" data-source="post: 6606317" data-attributes="member: 6793942">Yes it is. Conjure Elemental uses the same language as the Conjure Animal spell. While the animals are not beasts but fey transformed to work like them, there is no indication what language you might need to use to do your ordering unless it's common. If that spell is to work at all then you do not need any language &amp; the same applies to Conjure Elemental. OTOH It does seem to be a pretty broken spell as you get a billion (88) free HP of wolves for an hour &amp; they easily hit for 28 damage a round. The brokenness comes as the maths for creature XP value is very poor. Lower CR creature are more effective per CR/XP then higher CR ones while this is easy to fix as a DM (&amp; the needlessly fiddly outnumbering rule in encounter building is partly a patch for this) it is very exposed when put to the players. As well as being ridiculously strong thy are also unfun to play with, roundly violating the action economy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pickles III, post: 6606317, member: 6793942"] Yes it is. Conjure Elemental uses the same language as the Conjure Animal spell. While the animals are not beasts but fey transformed to work like them, there is no indication what language you might need to use to do your ordering unless it's common. If that spell is to work at all then you do not need any language & the same applies to Conjure Elemental. OTOH It does seem to be a pretty broken spell as you get a billion (88) free HP of wolves for an hour & they easily hit for 28 damage a round. The brokenness comes as the maths for creature XP value is very poor. Lower CR creature are more effective per CR/XP then higher CR ones while this is easy to fix as a DM (& the needlessly fiddly outnumbering rule in encounter building is partly a patch for this) it is very exposed when put to the players. As well as being ridiculously strong thy are also unfun to play with, roundly violating the action economy. [/QUOTE]

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