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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oni" data-source="post: 837797" data-attributes="member: 380">I had a good conjurer who routinely used summon monster to summon evil creatures.  Now I realize this isn't quite the same thing as a planar binding spell where things can more likely go wrong, but perhaps the same logic can be applied.  Her thinking was that there was no reason to put good creatures through the stresses and rigors of combat unnecessarily, but that evil creatures got what they deserved.  With a planar binding type spell the creature summoned is at even greater risk since if they die, they're dead.  That said this character didn't make it to high enough level to tackle that particular issue, however I think that type of summoning would have been something she would have tried in only the most dire circumstances, not wanting to bring inconvenience or harm to good creatures, or lightly undertaking the risk associated with evil creatures.  I don't know if the DM ever changed her alignment, but I always played her as a good character despite the types of spells she used.  On a more mechanical level, I've always been of the view that the spell descriptors do not necessarily lend a morality to the spell that would affect a characters alignment.  They are there to show what spells clerics can and cannot cast, and to show how the spell detects under the scrutiny of divinations.  I cannot think of any place in the core rules where it mentions what the possible ramifications of casting such spells would be, only the things that I mentioned above.</blockquote>

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