Pact Wizard and Sacred Summons


Rules Questions


Hello, I'm thinking of playing a Pact Wizard and I'm a little confused as to how Sacred Summons works with it. The Pact Wizard gets an aura matching the alignment of the chosen outsider of his pact and something called Pact Summons (Ex), which says "A pact wizard can select Sacred Summons as a wizard bonus feat" with the stipulation that "He can use this feat only to summon outsiders of his chosen subtype." Sacred Summons can only let you summon monsters that exactly match your aura.

Basically, my question is, do these two stipulations stack on each other, or does "Summon outsiders of his chosen subtype" override the need for Sacred Summons to exactly match an Aura?

For example, say I pick a Psychopomp as part of my Pact. Would I be able to use Sacred Summons to summon the Psychopomps under the Summon Neutral Monster feat, as they match my chosen subtype, or would the fact that Psychopomps have no Alignment Sub-type still apply and Sacred Summons be worthless for someone who picked a Psychopomp as part of their pact?

Liberty's Edge

Effectively, the only real condition for the type of outsider a Pact Wizard can choose is that there has to be an Improved Familiar of that type. For Psychopomps there is the Nosoi, so it works.

The Pact Wizard Aura ability then sets your Aura to match the outsider type's alignment descriptors (True Neutral in this case) and you therefore automatically meet the requirements for using Sacred Summons with that type of outsider so long as you haven't violated your pact... though Pact Summons restricts it to ONLY that type of outsider.


So it still works despite True Neutral auras not actually being a thing? That is the part that is a little confusing. Im totally okay tho with just using it to summon psychopomps tho.

Liberty's Edge

You line up the alignment descriptors (not necessarily alignment) of the outsider with the alignment aura of the caster. If there are no mismatches then you're set. Psychopomps have NO alignment descriptors... and thus have no mismatches with a True Neutral aura (whether real or imposed by the Pact Wizard Aura feature).


Good enough for me. Thanks a lot!

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