Story Summoner


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Dark Archive

I noticed, what I am fairly certain, is a slight error in the wording of the Story Summoner's ability Summon Arcana.
It forgot to mention that you would only add said template to one of the asterisked monsters.
So am I reading this correctly that currently, RAW you can apply a template to, say, a Lantern Archon?

Summon Arcana:
At 2nd level, a story summoner can use a complete harrow deck he owns as an additional focus component for his summon monster spell-like ability. When he does so, the summoner draws a random card from the deck and applies a simple template to the summoned monster based on the card's alignment: celestial (any good), fiendish (any evil), resolute (any lawful), or entropic (any chaotic). If a card has more than one alignment—such as a lawful evil or chaotic good card—the summoner can choose which template to apply to the summoned creature. This ability allows a story summoner to summon and command creatures normally prohibited by their alignment.

Sczarni

Huh. Interesting.

I'm actually not sure that it isn't supposed to function that way.

With this ability, you could summon a Celestial Fiendish Eagle.

Is that any more strange than a Fiendish Archon?

ADDENDUM: there are actually a pair of Fiendish Archons in a PFS scenario, so they *do* exist.


That's almost as amusing as getting a Celestial Imp familiar with the Celestial Servant feat.

Dark Archive

If that's the case it makes this Archetype a straight upgrade to any Summoner's wanting to focus on Summon Monster, and is PFS legal unlike the Master Summoner.

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