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Message: <blockquote data-quote="yipwyg" data-source="post: 2958762" data-attributes="member: 3302">I have always thought the summon monster spells, while cool, where far to limited in what they can do.  What I mean is I always wanted someone to expand on the list that you can summon, or give guidelines on the sorts of things one can summon with the individual spells.I recently got Castles and Crusades recently and love how they handle the spell.The spells are summon lesser monstersummon monster summon greater monsterEach one has a list of the monster types you can summon with these spells, like:aberationanimal (including dire variety)elementaland othersEach spell had a limit to the amount of HD you can summon.  For instance summon lesser monster might be the following (forgive me I do not have the book in front of me)Summon Lesser Monstersummon a monster up to your level in HD, maximum 3 HD.So with this spell, at 3rd level you can summon the following:3 1 hd creatures2 1 hd creatures and 1 1 hd creature1 3 hd creatureWhat, if anything, would make these spells work well with 3.x.  If I implemented these spells I would get rid of summon monster 1-9.Thanks for any info.</blockquote>