Summoning Ifrit | EN World Tabletop RPG News & Reviews

In the vein of making a Final Fantasy type summoner, I drafted up stats for Ifrit using an efreeti as the base creature. (Actually, the only thing I did was detail specific feats as opposed to those listed in the MM and give him items).

So the next question is how do you summon him? I was toying with the idea of adding him to a summon monster spell list as a house rule. See:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=2177502#post2177502

I would think he would be put somewhere between SM VII and SM VIII.

However, it seems that this may not even be necessary. Using planar binding/ally, couldn't you broker a deal that you cast a sending to contact him and then he would have to planeshift to your location (you could give him a refuge stick to accomodate the variability with planeshift). As far as I can tell, you would effectively summon him to your location, just in a round about way. Moreover, he would arrive the same round as if summoned with a SM spell but not be able to act the turn he arrived (except perhaps for a MEA - standard action to plane shift and standard action to break refuge stick). To a limited extent this could be done with various planar creatures effectively filling out the sujmmon list.

The benefits of a summon monster version of summoning are that Ifrit would not truly die if killed and that it would be far less costly than giving him a refuge stick for every time you wanted to summon him. (And if he were summoned via a SM spell, he would not be able to use his wish granting ability).

The sending/planeshifting/teleporting trick is kind of sick because for a 5th level spell for that day you could get the benefits of something on the power level of an 7th or 8th level spell (albeit with some serious preliminary costs). Also, there would be no reason to limit the wish granting ability if called in this fashion.

As I mentioned in the other thread, as an aside, why isn't every 11th level wizard summoning up efreeti, to get wishes all the time?

The idea of a Final Fantasy type summoner I think can be accomplished by this planar ally/binding type of calling to first broker the deal of future calling (but with far less time - to be effective in a combat situation).

So what say you, the populous of EN World?

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