You summon a fey creature of challenge rating 6 or lower, or a fey spirit that takes the form of a beast of challenge rating 6 or lower. It appears in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. The fey creature disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends.
The fey creature is friendly to you and your companions for the duration. Roll initiative for the creature, which has its own turns. It obeys any verbal commands that you issue to it (no action required by you), as long as they don't violate its alignment. If you don't issue any commands to the fey creature, it defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions.
If your concentration is broken, the fey creature doesn't disappear. Instead, you lose control of the fey creature, it becomes hostile toward you and your companions, and it might attack. An uncontrolled fey creature can't be dismissed by you, and it disappears 1 hour after you summoned it.
The GM has the fey creature's statistics. Some sample creatures are listed below.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, the challenge rating increases by 1 for each slot level above 6th.
Sample Creatures
Can we just call this what it is? "Summon Tyrannosaurus Rex"?
The spell doesn't just summon beasts but it clearly states it summons fey or fey in the form of beasts. So it can summon annis hags
Which are not terribly powerful (unless there are 2 other hags nearby), and if you lose control of a hag, what happens? DM field day.
Why does this make me think of pokémon?
“as long as they don't violate its alignment.”
So no serious satyrs, decisive dryads, heroic hags, relaxed redcaps, kind quicklings, or black-hearted blink dogs
plus anything unaligned can’t do anything that doesn’t just mean food, shelter, or safety for it.
Until you lose control and it flies into a rage.
that phrase make this spell a bit harder to work with :(
Get a giant ape and use planar binding on it for interesting results. And if you have the frostmaiden book and happen to be in an underwater campaign, summon a sperm whale-shaped fey creature and planar bind it.
Bheur Hags, Dusk Hags, and Korreds all have interesting spell lists that this can give access to
I mean sure, but that's a pretty sho rt sighted thing to do. Maybe the Korred would let you get away with it. But would a hag take nicely to being dominated my some whippersnapper-wizard's magic? No, they'd track them down and rip them apart. Might even manage to throw a coven together.
I think this spell is really more useful as a utility spell as opposed to combat, especially for the warlock's Mystic Arcanum. With limited spells known AND limited spell slots, they need all the extra utility they can get. The Dusk Hag can give you access to Dream, Legend Lore, and Scrying, which are normally rather situational spells, but can be very useful in the right campaign. The Dryad can speak to plants (situational, but useful), has Goodberry and Pass Without Trace, which conveniently ALSO lasts an hour, perfect for a heist. A Nereid allows you an underwater INVISIBLE scout, can speak with animals, and it can also cast Control Water at will! Very useful for aquatic/seafaring campaigns or just finding out what the local fauna has to say. An Oread can theoretically travel through lava or open flames to get that sunken treasure or pull out a clumsy PC, not to mention being invisible in said flame. Quetzalcoatlus (Beast) can allow you to fly up a tough cliff or over a vast canyon, though don't try it over an enemy base as it does not have much HP and you likely don't have Feather Fall. And finally, a Quickling is tactically useful on a massive battlefield as a poor man's Sending spell, but it can communicate as long a message as you want as long as the recipient is within 12-16 miles. And then, of course, there IS the Annis Hag and the Mammoth for your combat options.
It's probably not the most MINMAX OP 6th level spell for a Warlock. And sure, there are consequences for losing concentration, but if you're smart, you'll never use this spell in a situation where you could lose concentration. But when you use your ONLY 6th level slot, you want it to be useful in a wide variety of situations. Plus, even if a hag DOES get mad at you, you should be easily able to dispatch it with an 11th level party, that's practically a nuisance at worst. Mass Suggestion is great, but difficult to use in combat, especially as many enemies at higher levels have advantage or immunity against charm or other magical effects. Eyebite is good, but you have a LOT of combat concentration spells already. Why not choose a spell that's multi-faceted?
Underwater? Summon a Giant Shark
I’m waiting for the Titanboa, might be a rating 7 or 6
The table is the one for Conjure animals, not conjure fey.
Nope. I've found blink dogs, green hags, sea hags, and satyrs in it so far, though there's probably more if you really look.
So it does, in fact, include fey. Beasts in basic rules just outnumber them that strongly.
Or you can just summon a brontosaurus right when you get this spell it's stats are in the tomb of annihilation
can i summon a unicorn even if its a celestial