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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr.Dan" data-source="post: 990808" data-attributes="member: 10142">The following is opinion and conjecture, and is written after only a quick reading of this thread and an equally quick reading of the spell description in the SRD.  Do with it as you will.The Simulacrum is a semi-real duplicate, an illusory construct of sorts.  It behaves as though it is the creature that it is copied from but is aware, on some level, that it is not this being.  Confronted with evidence, the simulacrum might nod politely or angrily dismiss the evidence as lies, depending on the orders of its creator and the personality of the individual that it was copied from.No explanation is necessary.  The simulacrum obeys your will fully, and if your will is to treat is as expendable, so be it.A simulacrum is not a true construct, but is rather a semi-real Shadow Illusion made wholly tangible by casting it on snow.  Vulnerability to fire is a very reasonable house rule.As it is not a construct in the strict sense of the word, these spells would not work.The simulacrum does not have a will of its own, being an illusion of the body and mind of another.  An exercise of will is needed in calling and controlling a familiar, so the simulacrum could not do this.Being a physical and mental copy of a being, the simulacrum would behave more or less as the original would when not ordered to do otherwise.The simulacrum cannot increase in level or abilities.  I take this to mean that it does not learn or grow in any substantive manner.  It will remain essentially as it was when it was created, forever.According to the SRD: “No special telepathic link exists, so command must be exercised in some other manner.”  Telepathy qualifies as “some other manner.”A simulacrum is a tool, it’s creator the wielder.  It is always under the “absolute command” of its creator.  It can never plot such an act.Remember, what we’re dealing with here is a snowman, an illusion.  It is a facsimile, and not a very good one at that; 40% to 50% of the original material is missing or illegible.  We are not creating new life here, picking up where the Gods left off.  We are instead crafting a model of the original work – and the sculptor is only mortal.Thus ends my two cents.Dr. Dan</blockquote>

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