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<blockquote data-quote="JDowling" data-source="post: 2181323" data-attributes="member: 12596">I will stand corrected:PHB: &quot;an ally is a creature friendly to you.&nbsp; In most cases, references to &quot;allies&quot; include yourself&quot;disregard my last post as I was assumeing (because these questions were raised at all) that the PBH didn't have a clear definition of what &quot;ally&quot; ment or how it was designated.In reference to above: ally is clearly a metaphysical designation per RAW, no matter how well a doppleganger disguised itself the only way Bless would ever work on it was if it was 'friendly' to the caster.EDIT: to tie back to origonal post-Enemy: a creature that is unfriendly to you.Opponent is not a clearly defined game-term, but the spell discription uses opponent and enemy interchangeably.&nbsp; Your animals summoned with Summon Nature's Ally spells will attack your enemies (things unfriendly to you) to the best of their ability unless you can communicate with them to make them do otherwise.That meaning - if anyone in your party is &quot;unfriendly&quot; to you (secretly plotting your death perhaps) then they won't benefit from Bless (and similar spells), and your summoned badgers will chew on them as much as the orcs that are trying to stick sharp things into you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JDowling, post: 2181323, member: 12596"] I will stand corrected: PHB: "an ally is a creature friendly to you. In most cases, references to "allies" include yourself" disregard my last post as I was assumeing (because these questions were raised at all) that the PBH didn't have a clear definition of what "ally" ment or how it was designated. In reference to above: ally is clearly a metaphysical designation per RAW, no matter how well a doppleganger disguised itself the only way Bless would ever work on it was if it was 'friendly' to the caster. EDIT: to tie back to origonal post- Enemy: a creature that is unfriendly to you. Opponent is not a clearly defined game-term, but the spell discription uses opponent and enemy interchangeably. Your animals summoned with Summon Nature's Ally spells will attack your enemies (things unfriendly to you) to the best of their ability unless you can communicate with them to make them do otherwise. That meaning - if anyone in your party is "unfriendly" to you (secretly plotting your death perhaps) then they won't benefit from Bless (and similar spells), and your summoned badgers will chew on them as much as the orcs that are trying to stick sharp things into you. [/QUOTE]

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