| wayne berry |
Ashenfall wrote:At first, I figured they would. Then, a buddy announced that he wants to run a summoner on a campaign I'm going to be running, and asked me the subject question.
Now I'm not sure. I searched the forum, and only found one thread where this was discussed, with answers saying yes, and other answers saying no.
Do any of you guys know for sure, if there's any reason why augment summoning wouldn't benefit an eidolon, since the summoner's description says that they're treated as summoned creatures?
The text of the feat is fairly clear that the monster must be summoned using a summon spell, and that the duration of the enhancement is based on the duration of the spell.
An eidolon is not normally summoned using a summon spell (unless, of course, you use the summon eidolon spell).
This is critical for game balance as most summoned monsters exist for a short period of time before being dismissed. An eidolon, under normal conditions, is summoned for very large lengths of time.
So if Augment Summoning were to work for eidolons, this would effectively be similar to the eidolon possessing a +4 Belt of Physical Might (a major wondrous item worth 40000 GP) for the price of a feat that only has Spell Focus (conjuration) as a prereq. So you could even gain it at 1st level.
it should work because it clearly states that eidolons count as summoned creatures for all purposes