Sticks to Snakes

4th-level transmutation (ritual)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Components: V, S, M (a handful of sticks)

Duration: concentration, up to 1 hour

Classes: druid, ranger

You transform a bundle of sticks into a swarm of poisonous snakes. The swarm turns back into sticks when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends. The summoned swarm is friendly to you and your companions. The swarm has its own turn, which immediately follows your own on the initiative order. It obeys any verbal commands that you issue to it (no action required by you). If you don’t issue any commands to it, the swarm defends itself from hostile creatures, but otherwise takes no actions. The GM has the creatures’ statistics.