Herald Caller's (Su) Divine Heralds (not associated w Sacred Summons)


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Grand Lodge

The Herald Caller's (Su) ability, Divine Heralds, says, "...can use summon monster spells only to summon creatures particularly appropriate to her deity. This includes all creatures listed as summon monster options for priests of her deity (see Expanded Summoning for Clerics), creatures whose alignment matches at least one aspect of her deity’s alignment, and creatures of an elemental subtype that matches a domain granted by the deity (if any).

It appears to say there may be an option for them to summon creatures not listed in the summon monsters spell or the expanded summons list, but for some reason I doubt that.

Does this ability limit the option to ONLY those on the summon spell and expanded lists?

Divine Heralds (Su):

A herald caller can use summon monster spells only to summon creatures particularly appropriate to her deity. This includes all creatures listed as summon monster options for priests of her deity (see Expanded Summoning for Clerics), creatures whose alignment matches at least one aspect of her deity’s alignment, and creatures of an elemental subtype that matches a domain granted by the deity (if any). When summoning a creature that is normally summoned with the celestial or fiendish template, a herald caller of a chaotic deity can instead summon it with the entropic template, and a herald caller of a lawful deity can instead summon it with the resolute template.

Because of these summoned monsters’ strong ties to the herald caller’s deity, the herald caller also gains specific benefits with creatures she summons with summon monster spells gained from her cleric spell list. The herald caller and her summoned monsters can understand each other’s spoken words as if they shared a common language (though this doesn’t give summoned monsters the ability to speak if they normally lack it). Whenever the herald caller uses channel energy to heal, she can include all of her summoned monsters, even if they are out of her normal channel energy radius or of a creature type that would not normally be affected. If she channels energy to deal damage, she can exclude any of her summoned monsters that would normally be affected.


Where is the "Expanded Summoning for Clerics" list? I found the feat Expanded Summon Monster, which says to pick 2 monsters. Using that, I would (tentatively) say a Divine Herald can get whichever ones they want, limited by alignment and element like it says.


It's generally going to be mentioned in the same book, and otherwise listed as summons for the deity in question.

For example, if you were a Herald Caller of Cayden Cailean, you could summon:
Chaotic-aligned creatures
Good-aligned creatures
Any creature that is on Cayden's expanded summon list (which includes Rust Monsters, which are otherwise neither Chaotic nor Good)

Grand Lodge

I see. I would like to be a Herald Caller of Sarenrae, but she gets nothing at all on the list in the Monster Summoner's Handbook until Summoning VI!

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