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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7676111" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>All editions prior to 3e, the DM chose using a list or as appropriate.  It's not stealth nerf - it never said the player chooses, you just assumed they did because in 3e and 4e they did. Some spells give you a choice, like summon familiar, and some spells just give you a category choice.  The later is intended for the DM to decide once the player chooses the category.  On reading the language in the spell, it doesn't imply the player chooses the creature - it just says the player chooses the category, and the DM has the statistics for what appears. I don't think this was a change, but rather a reaction to people asking the question.  I think it was always written as a DM decision - much like a whole lot of 5e.  It's an assumed theme of 5e.</p></blockquote><p></p>