Is there a Nature's Ally Spreadsheet?

[Nynphaiel]

Hi guys!!! I have a level 8 druid, and so far I haven't found a practical way to manage the summons from NA (and also from Summon Monster). I was wandering if was something out there that could facilitate this.

If not, which would be the best way to accomplish such thing? I'd be willing to do it by myself, but I think a spreadsheet, although quick to introduce changes as Augment Summoning, wouldn't be manageable on the table during the game. So any suggestion will be appreciated.

Thanks!!
Nyn

[Nynphaiel]

No one? =/

[caribet]

Nynphaiel wrote:

Hi guys!!! I have a level 8 druid, and so far I haven't found a practical way to manage the summons from NA (and also from Summon Monster). I was wandering if was something out there that could facilitate this.

If not, which would be the best way to accomplish such thing? I'd be willing to do it by myself, but I think a spreadsheet, although quick to introduce changes as Augment Summoning, wouldn't be manageable on the table during the game. So any suggestion will be appreciated.

Thanks!!
Nyn

I suspect the problem is that you phrased your question badly, and we're left uncertain as to your actual problem.

I presume you are actually asking about the Summon Nature's Ally spells. You mention Summon Monster - but Druids don't get those spells as class spells.

What do you mean by "manage"? You need to explain what you want, or we can't do much!

It is possible that you mean "is there a practical way to have a handy list of the creatures summoned by Summon Nature's Ally?" ????

A spreadsheet won't really help for that, unless you want a very compact summary - in which case you are down to the problem of "One man's summary is another's list with the details left out...". Everyone has their own idea of what to list and what to leave off. (It's less of a problem with Summon Nature's Ally, as Animals have simpler descriptions than many Monsters.)

Anyway...

You can do what the Summoner-player in our campaign does: make your own printed Summoner's Bestiary:

• visit the PRD spells section. Copy the list of names of summoned animals from the series of Summon Nature's Ally spells to a spare file.
  
• Move from the Spell section to the Bestiary
  
• Using the first list as a reference, copy the text of the summonable animals to a convenient form (we used a Word doc).
  

The catalogue of animals summoned forms a Summoner's Bestiary which she has printed and brings to game sessions.
She also bought the "Summon Monster" Pathfinder Paper Minis and printed the paper minis for the Summons her PC can cast.

This serves as a very handy ready reference... you don't have to do all 9 spell levels in one go - if you start the Bestiary with the character at L1, you add a chapter to your Bestiary each time the PC gets a new spell level.

Alternatively, download the free PCGen program (and the Oracle Java runtime).
This will let you create character files for each summons, including the effects of Augment Summons, Templates,... PCGen will output full PC character sheets, or short form entries suitable for encounters.

[jerdog]

There is the Summoner app available for Android devices and, I assume, iPhone and iPad. Also, there is a PDF from 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming that has the stats for the nature's ally summons and lists the augmented stats as well.

[Darrell Impey UK]

HeroLab, with the Bestiary add-ons can produce monster character sheets; I believe that there's an option to apply augmented etc.

[Ryan Freire]

I'd just buy a pack of 3X5 notecards and make out mini sheets for the things you regularly summon, modified by the feats/class abilities you use.