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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1034102" data-attributes="member: 1656">Nope - 3.0 said "when you begin casting."In other words, you decided where you wanted your summoned celestial badger to appear, then spent a full round casting while everybody moved around the battlefield, then the badger appeared... potentially in completely the wrong place.Now, you start casting Summon Monster I, and cast for a full round while everybody moves around, then - as the spell comes into effect - decide between a Celestial Badger and a Fiendish Hawk, and that it's going to appear there.That's just a change from 3.0 to 3.5.  That's not the exciting part <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The exciting part is that while in 3.0, Casting Time said you make decisions about targets, effects, etc when you begin casting, on the very same page, under "Aiming a Spell", it says "However, you do not have to select your target until the moment you finish casting the spell."Which always annoyed me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-Hyp.</blockquote>