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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Blake" data-source="post: 4127090" data-attributes="member: 57267">Fantasy themes are filled with examples of summoned creatures. True, usually it's bad guys summoning demons or hordes of undead to attack the heroes. But it raises the question from the PCs "If the bad guy can summon demons, why can't we?"It's all or nothing. If the bad guys can do it, then the PCs will find a way to do it.And removing this archetypal theme that is so common and so fun in the fantasy genre is truly sad. We might as well remove dragons, or treasure hordes, or burly sword-swinging heroes. Where do we draw the line? How much fantasy must we strip away?This is fair. Nobody expects a ferret or hawk to be a dragon-slayer. Nobody expects them to bring down the BBEG.But this kind of thing won't work for summoning monsters, or hiring henchmen/hirelings in town.</blockquote>