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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 3095850" data-attributes="member: 4303">Here's another [call], this time incorporating the mitigatation up front instead of paying the creature at the end of service: it's in the 'factors' entry, and it's kind of clunky. I'm wondering if the original payment from greater planar ally should stand - it's far more discriminating in terms of hazardous duties, ethical sympathies etc: it's really hard to translate this into an elegant factor because it scales off of another variable (creature HD). Anyway:[Call]Conjuration (Calling) [see text]Root Spell: Greater planar allyPreferred Mitigation: Extended Casting Time, Ritual, Power ComponentsComponents: V,SCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: 1200ft.Effect: Called elementals or outsiders of CR 10 or lessDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: NoneSpell Resistance: NoA spell incorporating this seed calls extraplanar creatures to serve you. If you know an individual creature’s name, you may request that individual by speaking the name during the spell. Creatures called by use of the [call] seed serve you for 20 days, and will perform complex tasks which you assign to them. Few, if any, creatures will accept a task that seems suicidal (remember, a called creature actually dies when it is killed, unlike a summoned creature). If you wish to extend the creature's service beyond this time, you must negotiate an additional payment with it.At the end of its task, or when the duration bargained for expires, the creature returns to its home plane (after reporting back to you, if appropriate and possible).Note: When you use a calling spell that calls an air, chaotic, earth, evil, fire, good, lawful, or water creature, it is a spell of that type.Factors: For each additional +1CR of the called creature, increase the Spellcraft Prerequisite by +2; for each +10CR above 10 of the called creature, increase the Spellcraft Prerequisite by an additional +2: these factors are cumulative.Limitation: If you devise a spell which waives your exact choice of called creature and calls a creature of similar alignment instead, reduce the Spellcraft Prerequisite by -4.Relevant half-factors: reduce casting time 3 steps (+6), reduce target CR by 10 (-20), extend range by 2 increments (+4), determine specific target creature (+4), incorporate native XP cost (+2), incorporate equivalent CR20/20-day payment as equivalent power component mitigation (+4).</blockquote>

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