Best thing to bind to your service vis a vis Gate

[BiosTheo]

I was just curious what would be the best creature you could bind to your service using the spell Gate? I was thinking Pit Lord considering he can also summon a CR 19 or lower devil in addition to him stepping through the Gate.

[The Artaxerxes]

Remember, the more powerful thing you summon, the stronger thing to may have to kill later. With that in mind, I like to gate genies and the like. Wishes are nice.

[7heprofessor]

The beauty of the Gate spell is you can tailor the creature to the situation you know you are going into. Artaxerxes hits the nail on the head with one use of Gate: cast it twice to summon two genies with the Wish supernatural ability. Have them chain-cast wish to up one ability score by +5 leaving one wish left over for anything else you can think of. Sure, it's 20,000 gp, but well worth it!

Aside from that, if you know you're facing a particular creature, Call something that is tailored to combat it is a good way to go.

If you're only interested in combat utility, two Pit Fiends, two Balors or one Solar is the way to go at Caster Level 20.

[BiosTheo]

7heprofessor wrote:

The beauty of the Gate spell is you can tailor the creature to the situation you know you are going into. Artaxerxes hits the nail on the head with one use of Gate: cast it twice to summon two genies with the Wish supernatural ability. Have them chain-cast wish to up one ability score by +5 leaving one wish left over for anything else you can think of. Sure, it's 20,000 gp, but well worth it!

Aside from that, if you know you're facing a particular creature, Call something that is tailored to combat it is a good way to go.

If you're only interested in combat utility, two Pit Fiends, two Balors or one Solar is the way to go at Caster Level 20.

I like the genie suggestion I will have to do that!

Just a question thought about summoning two Pit Fiends, two Balors and one Solar how am I supposed to control 123 hd worth of creatures? The Gate spell says I cannot summon a total amount of creatures that HD exceed twice my CL. Is there a way around this?

[Jaxtile]

He means 2 Balors *or* 2 Pit Fiends *or* a Solar.