Summoning Monstrous Player characters

[cullenjaral]

I got a friend of mine who's playing a high-level dwarven paladin and has a Celestial Half-Li Lung Dragon Gryphon as her special mount. And he's been wondering (a lot ) about how summoning effects it if it happens to possess character levels of its own (in this case, the Duskblade class). Here are some questions he passed to me, so that I could pass them onto you guys.


(1)What exactly happens with a summoned creature?

In other words, what happens to it at point A (where it is snatched from its' origin point) and then later at point B (where it appears in the presence of who ever summoned it).

(2)Would a creature with levels in a particular character classes gain experience from fighting (or whatever) while summoned?

(3) Do they remember being summoned?

(4)If a paladin summons a creature for a mount that has character levels what happens?

(5) How much gear is taken with a summoned creature?

(6)Could my character be summoned?

Just out of curiosity, but has anyone played a planar adventure where their character got summoned by a wizard/sorcerer on some distant, back-water Prime Material world?

(7)How would I play that?

 

[Jack Simth]

I got a friend of mine who's playing a high-level dwarven paladin and has a Celestial Half-Li Lung Dragon Gryphon as her special mount. And he's been wondering (a lot ) about how summoning effects it if it happens to possess character levels of its own (in this case, the Duskblade class). Here are some questions he passed to me, so that I could pass them onto you guys.


(1)What exactly happens with a summoned creature?

In other words, what happens to it at point A (where it is snatched from its' origin point) and then later at point B (where it appears in the presence of who ever summoned it).

You vanish from wherever you are, and suddenly appear wherever you're told to be.

(2)Would a creature with levels in a particular character classes gain experience from fighting (or whatever) while summoned?

Unspecified in RAW, as far as I'm aware, although a Summon critter is in no actual danger at any point in the excercise (Summoned critters don't actually die when slain

(3) Do they remember being summoned?

Unspecified in RAW, as far as I'm aware.

(4)If a paladin summons a creature for a mount that has character levels what happens?

Unspecified in RAW, as far as I'm aware.

(5) How much gear is taken with a summoned creature?

Unspecified in RAW, as far as I'm aware.

(6)Could my character be summoned?

Pre-Epic, Requires an outsider or an elemental - your mount is celestial, you aren't.

Just out of curiosity, but has anyone played a planar adventure where their character got summoned by a wizard/sorcerer on some distant, back-water Prime Material world?

(7)How would I play that?

Not yet..... simple enough. Everyone starts in Planar Binding circles, and makes opposed Charisma checks to continue to have free will.... oh, wait, that would be Calling....

 

[Hypersmurf]

Are you referring to the Calling effect of the Paladin's Special Mount class feature, or are you talking about using some sort of Summon Monster spell with a variant rule to allow you to summon a specific creature?

If you're talking about the Special Mount rules, don't use the word Summoning; it's specifically a Calling effect, not Summoning.

If your special mount has class levels, you should be using the Leadership feat and treating it as a cohort. This will likely mean having your DM figure out a Level Adjustment; as a cohort, it should gain experience at rate proportional to the paladin's, based on the ratio of their ECLs.

The mount takes whatever gear it's carrying when it's dismissed, and has the same gear when it's Called again.

-Hyp.