A Couple Spell Questions

[Third Mind]

Alright I have a couple spell questions that I'm a touch confused about.

1. - Protection from evil / etc.

Does the summoned creature itself have to be evil to be protected from it? Or is it just the person that summoned the creature that has to be evil to be protected from their summoned creature?

2. - Summon Monster(s)

Say I have summon monster 3. Is it required of me to have summon monster 2 to use summon monster 3s option of summoning multiple (1d3) creatures of summon monster 2?

Hope the questions were clear enough. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Howie23]

1) Protection from evil: look at the alignment of the attacking summoned creature, not the caster who cast the spell.

2) You do not need to be able to cast summon monster 2. It doesn't have to be in your spell list, spellbook, nor does it have to be one of your known spells.

[Third Mind]

Good to know, thank you.

[Nefreet]

Howie23 is mostly right.

Summon Monster I wrote:

When you use a summoning spell to summon a creature with an alignment or elemental subtype, it is a spell of that type. Creatures on Table: Summon Monster marked with an "*" are summoned with the celestial template, if you are good, and the fiendish template, if you are evil. If you are neutral, you may choose which template to apply to the creature. Creatures marked with an "*" always have an alignment that matches yours, regardless of their usual alignment. Summoning these creatures makes the summoning spell's type match your alignment.

So if a LN, N, or CN spellcaster summoned a fiendish or celestial version of something, a protection from good / protection from evil spell would not help you. (a protection from law / protection from chaos spell still might, though, depending on the alignment of the caster)

[Howie23]

Howie was completely right, purely by luck, but Nefreet is both right and much more instructive. :)

[Nefreet]

;-)