Hiro Quester
2015-05-24, 10:17 AM
If I'm playing a druid, summoning in a nature's ally.
I get to specify which creature I try to summon, and where it is placed on the battlefield.
How much do I specify when I begin casting? How much of the spell's effects can I adapt to the circumstances of the battle as it now is, on my next turn, when the spell completes?
For example, if the party is about to be attacked by a group of enemies, and I decide that summoning a Nature's Ally using SNA IV would be a good way to kill or grapple to ineffectiveness a particular enemy. I use my turn to start summoning.
But what if that particular enemy moves or is killed during that turn? I might want a different creature from that spell's list, or a different location for it to appear.
Three possibilities:
During my first round when I begin summoning, I declare what I am summoning, and where I want to place it. ("I'm summoning a giant crocodile to appear in this location here." At the beginning of my next turn that creature arrives there, no matter what has changed during that round.
My first round I spend casting the spell specifying what creature I want to summon ("I'm summoning a giant crocodile"). When the creature arrives on my next turn, I specify where I want to place it ("The crocodile appears in front of this enemy and bites him".)
First round, I declare that I begin casting SNA IV. On my next turn I declare what creature I summoned, and where I want it, based on the battlefield as it currently is.
I have been playing it as #2. Another player in our group seems to play it as #3.
How do you play/DM this?
I get to specify which creature I try to summon, and where it is placed on the battlefield.
How much do I specify when I begin casting? How much of the spell's effects can I adapt to the circumstances of the battle as it now is, on my next turn, when the spell completes?
For example, if the party is about to be attacked by a group of enemies, and I decide that summoning a Nature's Ally using SNA IV would be a good way to kill or grapple to ineffectiveness a particular enemy. I use my turn to start summoning.
But what if that particular enemy moves or is killed during that turn? I might want a different creature from that spell's list, or a different location for it to appear.
Three possibilities:
During my first round when I begin summoning, I declare what I am summoning, and where I want to place it. ("I'm summoning a giant crocodile to appear in this location here." At the beginning of my next turn that creature arrives there, no matter what has changed during that round.
My first round I spend casting the spell specifying what creature I want to summon ("I'm summoning a giant crocodile"). When the creature arrives on my next turn, I specify where I want to place it ("The crocodile appears in front of this enemy and bites him".)
First round, I declare that I begin casting SNA IV. On my next turn I declare what creature I summoned, and where I want it, based on the battlefield as it currently is.
I have been playing it as #2. Another player in our group seems to play it as #3.
How do you play/DM this?