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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Legildur" data-source="post: 2666778" data-attributes="member: 1258">I'm interested in the answer as I currently play a 12th level Druid with the Augment Summoning feat and an occasional counter-tactic from the DM is to utilise Dispel Magic.  So far he has only applied it against singular creatures where my druid has summoned only a singular creature.  He hasn't yet tried the tactic against multiple creatures (typically Dire Wolves  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).I see two options for the area dispel magic to dispel both badgers:1.  So as long as the area dispel magic encapsulates the 'centre of gravity' then both badgers would be dispelled? or2.  The area dispel magic covers the squares the badgers were originally summoned into?I'm not 100% happy with (1) as it starts to break down with more than 2 creatures.  Suddenly you may have to start calculating a weighted average to determine the centre of gravity.  That and the spell doesn't specifiy a 'point of origin', only a range and that all summoned creatures must wholly be not only in range of the caster but within a maximum distance of each other (a fact that has caused me to lose some critters when summoning multiple large creatures onto a 'target rich' or congested battlespace).  In my mind, that then leaves option (2) as the only sound solution.(Edit) Or maybe you just rule that the various summons spells can't be dispelled by an area dispel magic as they don't have a point of origin? (of course, if the creatures themselves are caught within it, then they can be dispelled).</blockquote>

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