Do you typically use Summon Nature's Ally in a fight? Do you do it in the first round, or only if the fight gets tough later? Do you use your highest level...
Do you loan out your animal companion to be someone else's mount? Do you see any table variations, like your animal companion won't obey someone else's...
No! I require a handle animal check from the person who wants to control my animal companion. And they'd better not be giving contradictory instructions, or...
I don't really see a reason to disallow a command. Although I could see adding a circumstance penalty to the handle animal check, since it isn't the druid...
I have seen it once, IIRC it was a ranger's AC. The DM allowed him to ride it with a single handle animal check for the whole mod. Jim Cummings ... -- Jim...
Great ideas!, I have a 1st level summoning druid; I start casting as soon as my summon will be in melee range. Since it is only around for a round, I just use...
... Yes. Nature's Favor is a swift action spell that grants an animal luck bonuses to attack and damage, +1/three levels (+5 max), for one minute. GMF grants...
... Why not? I don't summon all that often. I usually find that I have better things to do with my full-round actions than spend the time summoning a...
Foddar Canon is a 14th level druid. He typically starts out a combat with flame strikes, arcs of lightning, walls, and other area effect spells that either do...
Foddar Canon does not usually lend out his animal companion to be someone else's mount, except in an emergency. And then it's probably to carry a wounded (or...
... I've only used it 4-5 times in 11 levels. ... Generally, it's in the later rounds when we had a flying/swimming opponent and the party didn't have the ...
... I just noticed how nice the juvenile arrowhawk's electricity ray is. Damage every round, almost never misses. SNA IV: 2d6/round, ranged touch attack at +9 ...
I memorise all sort of circumstancial spells that I use once in a very long time like Quench, Gust of Wind, Death Ward etc. If they're not needed then I...
... My level 8 druid bought scrolls of Quench and Death Ward. I agree with your implication that those are both spells that you want to have in the party, but...
They are effective. Of course, if the enemy is immune to the durid's arc of lightning, arrowhawks probably won't work either. Jonathan Tom tpb Foddar Canon,...
... Yes ... Yes ... Yes, although not always in the first fight of the day. ... Black bears at short range, hippogriffs at long range. I usually summon 1d3...
... From: Jason Davis Subject: Re: Re: Do you summon? - Juvenile Arrowhawl Actually it is a good way to whack someone in an antimagic shell. Jed no it ain't....
... as ifthe summoned creatures were dispelled. You aren't summoning the Arrowhawk to "enter" the area of an anti-magic field. You are summoning an Arrowhawk...
The ranged electrical attack is a supernatural ability, and thus, would not function in an antimagic field, justm as a fireball or acid orb does not function...
... The electric ray is a supernatural ability, thus magical. It has no effect on anything within an antimagic field. PHB page 200, Antimagic Field: "The space...
... I see Rapid Spell + Summon often advertised as the bee's knees. I'm not impressed. I'm going only on theory rather than experience, but... Wouldn't it be...
<snip> ... nice. ... rush ... That ... the chances that some nasty foe gets your summoning disrupted is just to high, at apl 8+ some 30 hp of a fireball EVEN...
... Is a rapid summons something that you would always do without pause for thought? No. However, the first rounds of combat are *very* important. There is ...