In the adventure "Storm King's Thunder," the players have the opportunity to raid the castle of a cloud giant lady, Countess Sansuri. She is a powerful wizard who has researched a custom version of the simulacrum spell that is capable of creating multiple copies with a single casting (her spellbook is on page 197).
The way it's presented leads me to believe that player-controlled wizards are supposed to be able to copy the modified simulacrum spell into their own spellbooks and cast it if they so choose; however, it never says how many duplicates it can create. The base spell says that you can only create one copy, and that "If you cast this spell again, any currently active duplicates you created with this spell are instantly destroyed." Should I take that to mean that the upper limit on the number of duplicates createable using Sansuri's Simulacrum is the number of aarakocra simulacra inside Lyn Armaal?
18 if my count is right – four in Area 1, two in Area 11, six in Area 26, and six in Area 29
Best Answer
One per casting
Sansuri's Simulacrum is described on page 197. The key differences are:
So nothing in this spell says she can create multiple copies with a single casting, just that she can create multiple copies of the same creature. How I read this is that Sansuri's Simulacrum works the same as normal Simulacrum except that the line, "If you cast this spell again, any currently active duplicates you created with this spell are instantly destroyed.", is appended with "...unless all duplicates are of the same creature."