Somehow I've always been under the impression that you had to know about a type of creature to summon it, therefore boosting some knowledge skills was important for summoners.
However, I can't find anything to support this view in the rulebooks - the spells more or less say "just choose from the list". Can anybody point me in the relevant direction, as my search-fu failed miserably on these forums as well?
You've already reached the end of this road, grasshopper. There's no text regarding a need for knowledge about the creatures you summon. I recommend knowing their languages to enable communication, but if you keep things to "Kill them. Kill them now." you'll be just fine :)
Thanks. As an encore:
Is it legitimate to look at it the other way round? A caster with a creature on a summoning list he can use knows all about the creature ahould she encounter it?
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Thanks. As an encore:
Is it legitimate to look at it the other way round? A caster with a creature on a summoning list he can use knows all about the creature ahould she encounter it?
Nope. It it's any help, he doesn't necessarily know about the creatures that he summons if he doesn't have the knowledge skills...nor is it necessarily needed for him to due so. He may know that he can summon a demon. He doesn't necessarily know that it's called a dretch, nor that it can use stinking cloud, etc.
If that all sounds screwy, he can certainly take the knowledge skills to know what his critters can do. If he doesn't do so, the role play options are rather amusing.
There is a reason the summon happy Abyssal bloodline gets knowledge:planes as a class skill.
Related question. Fiendish wolf. What skill applies to get information on habits, weaknesses etc. Planes or Nature or both/either?
I vote for either as it is an outsider and an animal but I could be wrong.
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There is a reason the summon happy Abyssal bloodline gets knowledge:planes as a class skill.
Related question. Fiendish wolf. What skill applies to get information on habits, weaknesses etc. Planes or Nature or both/either?
I vote for either as it is an outsider and an animal but I could be wrong.
Both. Nature for information on trip, for example, but Planes for aspects granted by the Fiendish template. I personally also go with Nature to identify that it isn't an everyday wolf.