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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoutonRustique" data-source="post: 6683402" data-attributes="member: 22362">Thank you all for the input and advice.I'm not a huge fan of 5e to date and so I may not have put in the work for the required system mastery to make my character work - I kind of went "Well, I'm seeing non-stop praise. I don't get it, but I'll give it a "fresh"* whirl and see how it goes. When building my character.*meaning, no studying the monsters for optimal summons, choosing spells based on "history"/role-playing considerations, etc.Binding my conjured elementals hadn't even occurred to me! It might be a pretty big stretch to make that work in the game... but I'll see what my DM thinks off it****Explanation: my character is a very dour, very strict, evil-cult hunter. He uses the forces of "Hell" to fight these evil-cults. His long-time companion is an "Inquisitor" paladin. There is a great deal of trust between the two characters and, while the extant of my character's use of infernal power isn't know, that he does is fairly open.He is "saved" by his iron discipline and his intransigent helping of the defenseless (~ "spiderman philosophy"^10 / "Constantine methods"). On the other hand, the fact that his familiar is an imp (as opposed to the crow it appears) is a secret his companion does not know.Should I bind air elementals in this more "permanent" manner - it would mean (in game) a binding of air-devils of some kind that I would then need to try and convince my friend of allowing, or attempt to hide them from him... A thing made very difficult in this edition ("demon sense"). Also, from my character's point of view, binding of an imp is a lesser threat as, should it get free, it is easy to destroy. These elementals would, on the other hand, represent bringing much more powerful demons into the world. Should I lose control of them, it would possibly incur a great deal of harm to others - which isn't acceptable.Lastly! we are currently fighting a demonic-plague that serves as a gateway for demons to enter the material realm. This is important (besides the obvious) because we are currently in a geographical region in which the gods do not hold sway and extra-dimensional travel is extremely difficult - demons should not be able to enter this realm at-all / aside from very time-limited summonings.So yeah, this is from a campaign that's been going on for over 20 years now, so there's a lot of back-story and things to hold in consideration when looking at spells (conjurations and such, most especially).As to gameplay style : we tend to have "dungeons" that are ruins and castles and such,  but with a time-frame that goes more "hours" of exploration over "minutes" of exploration. Which makes hour-long spells, not long enough to see certain use and one-minute cast spells much to long to use one the action starts - in many instances. On the other hand, pretty much everyone else found their characters to fit excellently to their concepts - so I'm the odd duck in this case (which I prefer, not being the duck, just that there's just the one duck).I'll fiddle with the build a bit, but there's a possible out for my character at this point in the campaign, so I might take it and build a new one - one built around the 5e assumptions. We'll see.In any case, thank you very much for the conversation, the advice and the information. Have a great one!</blockquote>

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