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Hi,

Was the duration of Lesser Simulacrum amended?

Simulacrum has instantaneous duration, while Lesser Simulacrum as a duration of 1 hour / level.

I'm assuming that I just failed to note the different duration when I looked at the spells earlier. But thought I would check.

Also ... with a casting time of 1 hour, the Lesser version is hard to use; harder still for Alchemists, which also takes an hour to cast, but then 24 hours to grow.

See:

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/s/simulacrum/

And:

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/alchemist/discoveries/paizo-al chemist-discoveries/alchemical-simulacrum-su/

Thx!
TomB

Lesser Simulacrum is dumb. It hasn't been changed from being dumb. The limited duration plus the fact that it's not actually under your control make the situations where it might be useful extremely limited.

This is especially true for the alchemist which, as you note, still has the 24 hour grow time (instead of the 1 hour cast, not in addition), and has to pay the same as for a greater alchemical simulacrum instead of 10x less like the wizard spell.
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