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<blockquote data-quote="jrowland" data-source="post: 6458950" data-attributes="member: 94389"><p>My memory is fuzzy on this, but I am pretty sure in older editions there was a distinct difference between <em>conjure</em> and <em>summoning</em>. Conjuration sort of 'creates' thing from the raw stuff of the planes where Summoning actually brings a being from another place (where the spells conjuration (summoning)? yeah, that rings a bell).</p><p></p><p> [MENTION=2067]Kamikaze Midget[/MENTION] had the right idea: Fiends, eg, want to be summoned: they can't get to the prime material without it and it allows them to corrupt (devils) and destroy (demons). They <em>know</em> they cannot die but are merely sent back and fight accordingly (read fluff on fiends in MM). I imagine conjured Fey behave the same way. They get to frolic on the material plane for a while with no consequence to their actions on their home plane.</p><p></p><p>I tend to think of different planes as being so foreign, so removed from "reality" that it might seem like a dream. A Fey coming to the material plane feels like its a weird dream, same for fiends, etc. In fact, I've done one-off adventures using that when I only have 1 or 2 players show up to a game: They are "summoned" to an outer plane to aid some caster there and when they die they wake up from the dream...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jrowland, post: 6458950, member: 94389"] My memory is fuzzy on this, but I am pretty sure in older editions there was a distinct difference between [I]conjure[/I] and [I]summoning[/I]. Conjuration sort of 'creates' thing from the raw stuff of the planes where Summoning actually brings a being from another place (where the spells conjuration (summoning)? yeah, that rings a bell). [MENTION=2067]Kamikaze Midget[/MENTION] had the right idea: Fiends, eg, want to be summoned: they can't get to the prime material without it and it allows them to corrupt (devils) and destroy (demons). They [I]know[/I] they cannot die but are merely sent back and fight accordingly (read fluff on fiends in MM). I imagine conjured Fey behave the same way. They get to frolic on the material plane for a while with no consequence to their actions on their home plane. I tend to think of different planes as being so foreign, so removed from "reality" that it might seem like a dream. A Fey coming to the material plane feels like its a weird dream, same for fiends, etc. In fact, I've done one-off adventures using that when I only have 1 or 2 players show up to a game: They are "summoned" to an outer plane to aid some caster there and when they die they wake up from the dream... [/QUOTE]
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