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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormrunner" data-source="post: 3121427" data-attributes="member: 13471">Complete Arcane, page 7:A warlock's invocations are spell-like abilities; using an invocation is therefore a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunity.Steal Summoning is a Dark invocation, so it's not available until high level anyway (16th for a straight Warlock), and compared to other PC abilities at such levels, I don't see it as being much of a game-breaker.  The spell it's based on is 6th level, so available to standard casters at 11th spellcaster level, 5 levels earlier than the warlock.  It requires an opposed caster level check, and has a duration of "Concentration(up to 1 rd/caster level)+1 rd".  So it's not auto-successful, and you can't do much else while maintaining control (unlike a standard summons which is "fire-and-forget").</blockquote>