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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Blake" data-source="post: 4127251" data-attributes="member: 57267">Yes. Sometimes.But defense won't win the battle. Summoning a wall to stand there and take all your actions while the wall gets beat down only means that once that wall is breached, the enemy will be in your face again and nothing will have changed.If the creature cannot take actions to win the battle, then you will have to take actions to win the battle - which you cannot do if your summoned creature is taking your actions.A perfect example is Bigby's Interposing Hand. It can push a monster, and keep it away from you. Which gives you time to get away, or to cast spells to kill the monster, or maybe you will kill the monster's allies while it is busy with your hand. When the duration of the hand expires, hopefully the situation on the battlefield will have improved so you are able to fight that monster now. But, if all you have done is stand there, giving your actions to the Hand, when the spell expires, nothing on the battlefield will have changed - all you've done is delay the inevitable.Now, a summoned creature that can absorb hits while you still take actions - that's an advantage.Becoming a summoned creature is a polymorph/shapechange - not a summons.So, following the logic of this paragraph. You would be OK with, for example, a spell (call it a summon or not) that turns you into an ogre for one round so you can bash the enemy for 25 HP. And you would be OK with this spell even though you have another spell that could crush the ogre for 50 HP. Your spell doesn't "do as much damage as a regular power" but you would still find it useful?Or are you saying that you remain an ogre until your next round, so anything your enemy does to you in that round disappears when you return to your normal form? Damage, illness, level drain, even death can be ignored when you turn back into yourself? In that case, it might be a useful spell. But then it is still a polymorph spell, not a summon spell - but yes, this would be a great addition to a spell list.</blockquote>

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