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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zoroaster100" data-source="post: 478120" data-attributes="member: 8538">Dragon 302 has an interesting article called "The Summoner's Circle" about variant summoning rules.  The article has several great ideas for making the summon monster and summon nature's ally spells more varied while trying to keep them balanced.  There is also a listing of suggested monsters from the Monster Manual, Monster Manual 2, Monsters of Faerun and Manual of the Planes for use with the various summon spells.  However, the listing of monsters on the table seems to rely almost entirely on the CR for the various monsters (counter to the advise given in the text of the article).  Even monsters already included in the lists for these spells in the Player's Handbook are reassigned to different levels of summon spells based primarily on the monster's CR without any commentary of why the monster was being moved from its original spell level.  I found the article very useful, but the table was disappointing in that I think it fails to consider the other issues relevant to summon monster spells such as whether the summoned monster can duplicate other spells, etc. (issues which were addressed in the text of the article).I was wondering if anyone else had looked over this article and what you thought of the accompanying monster table, especially the author's calls on moving some of the monsters from the Player's Handbook spells to different spell levels.</blockquote>

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