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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 1247578" data-attributes="member: 2629">Good questions. Ask your DM.The rules can't cover everything. There are too many hypotheticals for the rules to come close to being that 'complete'. OTOH: If you're looking for some guidance, the spell specifies that an undirected creature will attack 'opponents' - not 'enemies'. There is a subtle difference in the words. Opponents infers an active opposition. To me, a summoned creature would attack anything that is in an active hostile role against the caster or against an obvious ally of the caster.That is just my opinion, though. I can certainly see a DM ruling that anyone with negative intent towards the caster is an 'opponent', so I can see a DM ruling that a summoned creature would attack someone that is cheating the caster in a game of cards. There are some pretty big holes in the 3.5 rules that need to be patched. I would not call this a big hole. It is a rather small hole. Any DM should be able to come up with a good patch for it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 1247578, member: 2629"] Good questions. Ask your DM. The rules can't cover everything. There are too many hypotheticals for the rules to come close to being that 'complete'. OTOH: If you're looking for some guidance, the spell specifies that an undirected creature will attack 'opponents' - not 'enemies'. There is a subtle difference in the words. Opponents infers an active opposition. To me, a summoned creature would attack anything that is in an active hostile role against the caster or against an obvious ally of the caster. That is just my opinion, though. I can certainly see a DM ruling that anyone with negative intent towards the caster is an 'opponent', so I can see a DM ruling that a summoned creature would attack someone that is cheating the caster in a game of cards. There are some pretty big holes in the 3.5 rules that need to be patched. I would not call this a big hole. It is a rather small hole. Any DM should be able to come up with a good patch for it. [/QUOTE]

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