Prot. from Evil vs "Called" Creatures?

[Grundle]

The DM for a game I play in has the following question:

Does the Protection from Evil spell block out "called" creatures. The specific text is that it blocks out "summoned & conjured" creatures.

A house rule that I am leaning towards is that the spell blocks any "summoned" creatures and blocks "called" creatures who are Outsiders, but only if the spell is cast on the Material Plane. In other words, Protect from Evil would be less powerful on any other plane and would not block attacks. Part of my reasoning is that a Magic Circle, which is a pumped up Protection spell, does create a physical barrier to "called" creatures when used in conjunction with Lesser Planar Binding spells.

Whatcha think?

 

[Plane Sailing]

I would say that since it specifically blocks summoned creatures and not called ones, that it doesn't help.

Summoned creatures are not "there" in the same sense that called ones are - after all, when the spell ends they disappear and whether they were killed or not they can appear again unharmed when summoned once more. It is like you get a 3d reflection of the real thing.

Calling, on the other hand, brings the actual creature there. Much more risk for the summonee, and it is "actually" there.

Anyway, pro/evil *is* only a 1st level spell, with three nifty improvements to it. The morale of the story being use the appropriate magics when dealing with Called creatures.

 

[hong]

The DM for a game I play in has the following question:

Does the Protection from Evil spell block out "called" creatures. The specific text is that it blocks out "summoned & conjured" creatures.

Calling spells are a subset of conjuration spells, and thus prot evil should help against creatures that are called. Note however that a demon that was called via planar binding (say) is different to a demon that's on its own home plane, or used a plane shift spell to travel to the material plane. Prot evil wouldn't work in these cases.