DM Q&A: Low-level summoned constructs

[malclave]

A few days ago in another thread, DM Sauron wrote, in reference to treating Summoned creatures:

Some characters use golems instead, but then they forget most golems are created by using the core of an elemental. In other words, an elemental had to be enslaved aganist its will for the golem to function.

Does this part about the elemental apply to the low-level constructs (book, table, chest)? I've been RPing them as Animated Objects, powered by a spell rather than binding an elemental as with Golems.

[DM Sauron]

Aug 27, 2021 11:35:57 GMT -5 malclave said:

A few days ago in another thread, DM Sauron wrote, in reference to treating Summoned creatures:

Some characters use golems instead, but then they forget most golems are created by using the core of an elemental. In other words, an elemental had to be enslaved aganist its will for the golem to function.

Does this part about the elemental apply to the low-level constructs (book, table, chest)? I've been RPing them as Animated Objects, powered by a spell rather than binding an elemental as with Golems.

No.

Those are animated objects indeed.