Hi everybody: how long does it take to a Barbed Devil to use his Summon Barbed Devil/Lemures (Mag.)Ability? A standard action, or 1 round as per the Summon Monster spells? Many thanks!
V.
All spell-like abilities take only a standard action unless specifically stated otherwise. To more clearly answer your question: It's a standard action.
Hi everybody: how long does it take to a Barbed Devil to use his Summon Barbed Devil/Lemures (Mag.)Ability? A standard action, or 1 round as per the Summon Monster spells? Many thanks!
V.
I've always ruled that it's 1 round per the following lines:
From the description of summon "A creature with the summon ability can summon other specific creatures of its kind much as though casting a summon monster spell"
Then from Spell-Like Abilities: "A spell-like ability has a casting time of 1 standard action unless noted otherwise in the ability or spell description."
And then from Summon Monster: "Casting Time 1 round"
So Summon is a spell-like ability with a casting time of 1 round (as noted in the spell description).
Hi everybody: how long does it take to a Barbed Devil to use his Summon Barbed Devil/Lemures (Mag.)Ability? A standard action, or 1 round as per the Summon Monster spells? Many thanks!
V.I've always ruled that it's 1 round per the following lines:
From the description of summon "A creature with the summon ability can summon other specific creatures of its kind much as though casting a summon monster spell"
Then from Spell-Like Abilities: "A spell-like ability has a casting time of 1 standard action unless noted otherwise in the ability or spell description."
And then from Summon Monster: "Casting Time 1 round"
So Summon is a spell-like ability with a casting time of 1 round (as noted in the spell description).
"much as though casting a summon monster spell" is not the same, from a rules perspective, as "summon monster 1/day" or "treat as summon monster". In other words, you don't use the mechanics from the summon monster spell; it's just saying that summon monster is the most similar spell.
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Hi Zurai,
please quote a Source in the Rulebook which undermines that Sentence.
All Sources i have point to what J.R. Farrington was quoting.
What you said could be an GM's interpretation of the Rules, but the only thing i can read is what is written in the Rules.
Regards, Calimar.
Calimar, can you please quote a source that cite the words "much as though casting a summon monster spell" means "function exactly like a summon monster spell"?
What you said could be an GM's interpretation of the Rules, but the only thing i can read is what is written in the Rules.
"A spell-like ability has a casting time of 1 standard action unless noted otherwise in the ability or spell description."