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101 uses for Summoned Monsters (besides fighting)
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30.) Healers - six formian workers can work if your cleric is knocked out. Or a unicorn, or an avoral. Or if you're really in a bind, a lantern archon can cast Aid.
31.) Flying Taxi - If your DM lets you interchange templates, air apes make great taxis to hard-to-reach places.
32.) Food/Distraction - facing down a hungry animal you can't take? Summon a Mount and slowly back away, trying not to watch
33.) UPS/Fed Ex - Hound Archons can Teleport w/o Error at will. Put together a message/package (weighing under 50 lbs of course), summon one up, give a short description of the place you want him to go, and *poof*, your message is delivered. Sign on the dotted line please. Also works great if you've got a Portable Hole you can fit your entire party into.
34.) Avoral the Vampire Slayer - ok so this only works well at upper levels. If you've got the Augmented Summons feat, any two avorals can dish out nearly 150 points of positive energy damage with two touch attacks. Ouch.
35.) Mephits - There's like 8 of them and many have a spell-like ability that might come in handy in a pinch. (Ie Glitterdust mentioned above.)
31.) Flying Taxi - If your DM lets you interchange templates, air apes make great taxis to hard-to-reach places.
32.) Food/Distraction - facing down a hungry animal you can't take? Summon a Mount and slowly back away, trying not to watch
33.) UPS/Fed Ex - Hound Archons can Teleport w/o Error at will. Put together a message/package (weighing under 50 lbs of course), summon one up, give a short description of the place you want him to go, and *poof*, your message is delivered. Sign on the dotted line please. Also works great if you've got a Portable Hole you can fit your entire party into.
34.) Avoral the Vampire Slayer - ok so this only works well at upper levels. If you've got the Augmented Summons feat, any two avorals can dish out nearly 150 points of positive energy damage with two touch attacks. Ouch.
35.) Mephits - There's like 8 of them and many have a spell-like ability that might come in handy in a pinch. (Ie Glitterdust mentioned above.)
30.) A mount to get away! "Flumph, fly me to freedom!"
31.) Someone to enter the ballroom with, and scare off all un-wanted suitors! "Oh, that Astral Deva, its around here somewhere.."
32.) Helping with city hazards. "Put out that fire, Water Elemental!" "Burn up that trash, Fire Elemental!" .. "Turn over the porta-potty Earth Elemental!" ..
33.) Fetchie la' moos. Summon Rhino. Have it get in get in catapult during siege. .. we should all know the rest of this story..
34.) Entertainment at the King's Festival! Whats more fun than a barrel full of Dire Apes? A whiskey vat full of Fiendish Dire Rats!
35.) HEAL! Throw down enough Formian Workers and you've got yerself a Heal spell coming.
36.) Find Treasure! Summon Xorn, have it scout around through the dungeon walls, never engaging in combat and simply sniffing out the largest, rarest metals...
31.) Someone to enter the ballroom with, and scare off all un-wanted suitors! "Oh, that Astral Deva, its around here somewhere.."
32.) Helping with city hazards. "Put out that fire, Water Elemental!" "Burn up that trash, Fire Elemental!" .. "Turn over the porta-potty Earth Elemental!" ..
33.) Fetchie la' moos. Summon Rhino. Have it get in get in catapult during siege. .. we should all know the rest of this story..
34.) Entertainment at the King's Festival! Whats more fun than a barrel full of Dire Apes? A whiskey vat full of Fiendish Dire Rats!
35.) HEAL! Throw down enough Formian Workers and you've got yerself a Heal spell coming.
36.) Find Treasure! Summon Xorn, have it scout around through the dungeon walls, never engaging in combat and simply sniffing out the largest, rarest metals...
MerakSpielman
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It's kind of scarey that I understood this reference instantly.Malcolm said:
We're on number 43 next.
43.) Use them to run your own production of "6 Round Theater!" - I suggest something by Marlow.
44.) If a million summoned dire apes typed at a million conjured typewriters the complete worlds of Ed Greenwood would be produced! ... (nothin personal Ed)
45.) Summon 6 male Lillends - Instant boy band! Scare the bad guys to death!
46.) Can you say Celestial Badger Footstools!??
47.) An All Azer "Diva" Kick-Chorus Line! Can you say flaming??!! (no offense intended to anyone at all, much less those of you with large flaming beards and hair!)
48.) <actually done in campaign> Magmin Catapults! Land the lil buggers on the enemy Gatehouse and let them burn you a hole to siege with!
49.) Imps! Imps! Zeus help us Imps! - send them to "move-equivalent" the bad NPCs. There is nothing in the rules that says you can't draw out other folk’s gear if you momentarily are in the same space, etc. Or in other words: Pickpocket till they ain't even wearing pants! Sure they'll eat AoOs.. who cares?! They're Imps!
50.) Xorn Garbage disposal! - need to get rid of that pesky cursed sword you've had since 2nd level? Out of favor with the local Remove-Curse clerics? Feed it to a Xorn! *grind-grind-grind*
51.) Protection vs. Eyebite! - afraid of getting "put to sleep" by the dreaded gaze of an Eyebite spell? Summon a Varguouille to Scream when you and the party fall asleep! Sure you might die, but at least you'll wake up! (Disclaimer: Howler option also usable)
52.) Chaos Beast! - kill someone and you need to cover your tracks? Tired of that princess you rescued from the Dragon who nag-nag-nags!?? Why waste time with the Divination saying "In the Fiendish Dire Boars tummy!" and ruining your day!? Go with the Chaos Beast! All answers will come up with "Person X no longer exists." and that’s all!
53.) 15-second commercial for shaving cream and your lead called in sick? BARBAZU To the Rescue!! (bet you thought you'd never hear that one)...
54.) Erinyes - when you absolutely, positively, Must impress your ex-girlfriend NPC who is walking by with the Duke! Heck, impress the Duke while you're at it! (Disclaimer: charm gaze not guaranteed...higher-level PCs should use SummMonVIII-Sucubi for best results)
55.) Night Hag - when you absolutely, positively, Must let your ex-girlfriend NPC who is walking by with the Duke know how miserable you are without her!! (Disclaimer: being ridden after walk not guaranteed, for best results use only at night...)
edited: spell check didn't work, redid.
44.) If a million summoned dire apes typed at a million conjured typewriters the complete worlds of Ed Greenwood would be produced! ... (nothin personal Ed)
45.) Summon 6 male Lillends - Instant boy band! Scare the bad guys to death!
46.) Can you say Celestial Badger Footstools!??
47.) An All Azer "Diva" Kick-Chorus Line! Can you say flaming??!! (no offense intended to anyone at all, much less those of you with large flaming beards and hair!)
48.) <actually done in campaign> Magmin Catapults! Land the lil buggers on the enemy Gatehouse and let them burn you a hole to siege with!
49.) Imps! Imps! Zeus help us Imps! - send them to "move-equivalent" the bad NPCs. There is nothing in the rules that says you can't draw out other folk’s gear if you momentarily are in the same space, etc. Or in other words: Pickpocket till they ain't even wearing pants! Sure they'll eat AoOs.. who cares?! They're Imps!
50.) Xorn Garbage disposal! - need to get rid of that pesky cursed sword you've had since 2nd level? Out of favor with the local Remove-Curse clerics? Feed it to a Xorn! *grind-grind-grind*
51.) Protection vs. Eyebite! - afraid of getting "put to sleep" by the dreaded gaze of an Eyebite spell? Summon a Varguouille to Scream when you and the party fall asleep! Sure you might die, but at least you'll wake up! (Disclaimer: Howler option also usable)
52.) Chaos Beast! - kill someone and you need to cover your tracks? Tired of that princess you rescued from the Dragon who nag-nag-nags!?? Why waste time with the Divination saying "In the Fiendish Dire Boars tummy!" and ruining your day!? Go with the Chaos Beast! All answers will come up with "Person X no longer exists." and that’s all!
53.) 15-second commercial for shaving cream and your lead called in sick? BARBAZU To the Rescue!! (bet you thought you'd never hear that one)...
54.) Erinyes - when you absolutely, positively, Must impress your ex-girlfriend NPC who is walking by with the Duke! Heck, impress the Duke while you're at it! (Disclaimer: charm gaze not guaranteed...higher-level PCs should use SummMonVIII-Sucubi for best results)
55.) Night Hag - when you absolutely, positively, Must let your ex-girlfriend NPC who is walking by with the Duke know how miserable you are without her!! (Disclaimer: being ridden after walk not guaranteed, for best results use only at night...)
edited: spell check didn't work, redid.
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MeepoTheMighty
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56)
EDIT - Cartoon Edited for a profanity filter violation, and what looks like a political context. Sorry. -Henry
57) 1 round/level tea party.
EDIT - Cartoon Edited for a profanity filter violation, and what looks like a political context. Sorry. -Henry
57) 1 round/level tea party.
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60) Thoqqua...great for burning holes into doors, walls, etc. so you can get into places that otherwise are impossible to enter. Also, to light up the after battle smoke.
We've done this so often, that the running joke is it's always the same thoqqua we summon and it's beginning to get annoyed (like the genie in that Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs and Daffy find the Genie lamp.)
The other joke we have in this regard is the Rhino we summoned into a nest of lower power enemies we didn't want to fight. He had them cornered and...well, it wasn't pretty. We called ourselves the "Organization of the Great Horned Demon" after that. (None of us had ever heard of a rhino before, so we didn't really know what it was....just that it was big, mean and had that nasty horn on it's nose.
Fun.
We've done this so often, that the running joke is it's always the same thoqqua we summon and it's beginning to get annoyed (like the genie in that Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs and Daffy find the Genie lamp.)
The other joke we have in this regard is the Rhino we summoned into a nest of lower power enemies we didn't want to fight. He had them cornered and...well, it wasn't pretty. We called ourselves the "Organization of the Great Horned Demon" after that. (None of us had ever heard of a rhino before, so we didn't really know what it was....just that it was big, mean and had that nasty horn on it's nose.
Fun.
BOZ
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