Kineticist - Spark of Life: summoned or created

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

So I recently allowed a player to play a kineticst in my game and I've regretted it every session.

Most recently was the Spark of Life utility, which says that you "breathe a semblance of life" into element, indicating that it is something you create on the spot. However, the very same sentence also says it works "as if summoned". I would have ruled it to be a creation effect because of the 'brethe life into' and using your own life force to give it a mind, but considering Spark of Innovation explicitly says they are summoned...

It's kind of important in this particular adventure since they are in a locked demiplane where they can't summon anything, but creating an element and imbuing it with your own power would work.

I'd appreciate a few thoughts on the subject.

[avr]

The way the kineticist class is described as channeling matter from the ethereal plane and giving it form, you might argue that the class basically wouldn't work on a demiplane entirely locked off from all others. But that would be being an evil GM.

If you allow kineticist abilities to function at all then there's no good reason to block spark of life. It doesn't summon anything except the elemental matter; direction or sentience comes from the kineticist.

If there are souls trapped on the demiplane because they can't leave to go to their judgement or whatever, maybe a nonsentient elemental created by spark of life would make a good body for them to inhabit.