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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 1937214" data-attributes="member: 18549"><p><off topic></p><p>In both the Player's Guide To Faerun and Libris Mortis, they printed a version of the Summon Undead spells. These spells were cut-and-pasted directly from the 3.0 sources without being edited (as is the fashion at WotC), even though undead went through some major changes during the 3.5 revision. This means that a 5th level cleric who casts Summon Undead III can under the current RAW summon a 17 HD cloud giant skeleton with a CR of 7 and an attack that does 4d6+18 damage.</p><p></p><p>In an effort to get this errataed, since it's gone into print <em><strong>twice</strong></em> without anyone noticing the error, I emailed custserv. They told me that my reading of the rules is correct, and that the only limitation is that the cleric "has to locate a cloud giant skeleton."</p><p></p><p>So I wrote them back, and informed them that since Summon Undead is a Conjuration (Summoning) spell, the caster no more needs to have access to a giant skeleton than a cleric casting Summon Monster needs to have access to a celestial badger. ...A completely incompetent interpretation of the rules from custserv that shows that the cubicle monkey at WotC didn't even bother to <em>look up the damn spell</em> before replying to a query about it.</p><p></p><p>Custserv have no idea what they're doing. They should all be fired and the value of their wages taken out of the price of the books.</p><p></p><p>(edit)</p><p></p><p>Or, better yet, use their wages to hire someone to actually <u>edit</u> the books!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 1937214, member: 18549"] <off topic> In both the Player's Guide To Faerun and Libris Mortis, they printed a version of the Summon Undead spells. These spells were cut-and-pasted directly from the 3.0 sources without being edited (as is the fashion at WotC), even though undead went through some major changes during the 3.5 revision. This means that a 5th level cleric who casts Summon Undead III can under the current RAW summon a 17 HD cloud giant skeleton with a CR of 7 and an attack that does 4d6+18 damage. In an effort to get this errataed, since it's gone into print [i][b]twice[/b][/i][b][/b] without anyone noticing the error, I emailed custserv. They told me that my reading of the rules is correct, and that the only limitation is that the cleric "has to locate a cloud giant skeleton." So I wrote them back, and informed them that since Summon Undead is a Conjuration (Summoning) spell, the caster no more needs to have access to a giant skeleton than a cleric casting Summon Monster needs to have access to a celestial badger. ...A completely incompetent interpretation of the rules from custserv that shows that the cubicle monkey at WotC didn't even bother to [i]look up the damn spell[/i] before replying to a query about it. Custserv have no idea what they're doing. They should all be fired and the value of their wages taken out of the price of the books. (edit) Or, better yet, use their wages to hire someone to actually [u]edit[/u] the books! [/QUOTE]
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