books dealing with summoning

[kingpaul]

I'm working on building some summoners, and I was wondering what books folks use for reference.

I have:

• The WotC core products (PHB, DMG, MM)
• Malhavoc Press' Book of Eldritch Might
• Sword & Sorcery Studio's Relics and Rituals
• Mongoose Publishing's Encyclopaedia Arcane: Conjuration
• Fantasy Flight Game's Path of Magic

Are there any other books folks can think of that work with summoning? Thanks for your help.

 

[tarchon]

There are the Keys of Solomon, but I suppose you're probably looking for fiction.

 

[Starglim]

I'm working on building some summoners, and I was wondering what books folks use for reference.

I have:

• The WotC core products (PHB, DMG, MM)
• Malhavoc Press' Book of Eldritch Might
• Sword & Sorcery Studio's Relics and Rituals
• Mongoose Publishing's Encyclopaedia Arcane: Conjuration
• Fantasy Flight Game's Path of Magic

Are there any other books folks can think of that work with summoning? Thanks for your help.

PCs, NPCs, or as part of a campaign setting?

There's also Mongoose's Demonology and, earlier, WotC's Tome and Blood . If you have free rein to mess with the rules you could even look at Call of Cthulhu d20 .

 

[Mouseferatu]

Manual of the Planes, if only for stats on the Dao and the Marid. No reason a conjurer should only be able to summon two of the four genie types.

I'm actually, this very weekend, about to play a conjurer character myself in the first game of what I hope to be a long-running Planescape campaign. Rashid Abd-al Malaki, Master (well, Master-to-Be) of Genies.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Unearthed Arcana has some nice summon monster variants (themed and individualized summoning lists). It's not so special though, because if you're bound to make your own summoning lists, you'll pretty much come to the same conclusions.
Nevertheless, that's one of the rules from UA I instantly introduced IMC.


For a list of appropriate creatures and templates, I second the MotP. The elemental templates are great for summoned creatures.

 

[Mouseferatu]

For a list of appropriate creatures and templates, I second the MotP. The elemental templates are great for summoned creatures.

D'oh! Meant to mention the elemental templates myself, and totally forgot. Thanks for catching the ball.

 

[Gez]

Creature Collection 2 has summoning tables for its monsters and those of CC1.
Unearthed Arcana has variant rules for summoning stuff.

 

[PeterMikelsons]

The Book of Ebon Bindings for Tekumel/Empire of the Petal Throne really gets me in the mood for summoning, though the mythology is world specific and the edition I have has no game stats. Lots of gory, imaginative details about the rituals and roleplaying notes for the demons.

 

[kingpaul]

Thanks for all of the suggestions everyone.

 

[Voadam]

Green Ronin's Avatar's handbook has good creatures that can be summoned.

The book of fiends is supposed to have a web enhancement coming to put its demons and whatnot on summoning lists.

The upcoming Compiled Encyclopedia arcane from Mongoose is going to redo their earlier demonology summoning sourcebook.

Slayer's guide to demons has some summoning and pact rules.

Dragon lords of Melnibone has some demon summoning rules and create your own demon charts, but the summoning is way too expensive in xp and stat costs for the results.