I've always assumed that a character is taught about each animal that the spell can summon as part of learning the spell, but perhaps you will need to make a knowledge roll to 'research' each creature. (Otherwise, you get into situations where your druid summons a dinosaur, 'learns' it exists, and then shapeshifts into it.) If you are concerned that this rule will be applied to other summons, bring it up. If the GM is banning dinosaurs, then it seems reasonable (to me at least) that the ban would include summons. Regarding the rule applying to other summons, that's really something you'll want to discuss with the GM directly. Nature's Ally just does the kidnapping from some obscure part of the world.īut again, that's just been the fluff I've subconsciously given to the spell. Both spells sort of kidnap a spirit and throw it in a temporary body. It's never said in the spell, but I've always believed that Summon Monster is summoning creatures from the outer planes, while Summon Nature's Ally is summoning creatures from the world itself. Would this mean I do not have knowledge of the majority of creatures if I am a dwarf and have only been in temperate or cold regions of nature? Thoughts? Would I have to be forced to do Knowledge checks to see if my character even knows that a creature exists before summoning it? Like for angels and devils? I am just perplexed because I respect the no dinosaur ruling, but I have no idea how far that goes into other fields of summoning. The question then is if I don't make a knowledge nature check to see if an animal is actually in the world, do I not have the ability to summon it? This can also be expanded into any game session. Fair enough, but the DM also banned dinosaurs from being summoned through Natures Ally, stating that because my character does not know about dinosaurs that I would not be able to summon them.
As far as I know, this just means that there are no living dinosaurs in the game. Now in the world that this DM is creating, there are no Dinosaurs, so I would not be able to get an Animal Companion that was a dinosaur. We are first level and before the game started we were discussing what wasn't going to be in the game.
I have just started a campaign playing as a Druid.
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