![]() I realize the original intent of the spell was to actually summon creatures from the nearby area, and if there weren’t any, you didn’t get anything but that version was dropped a long time ago (sadly). Although the moral implications are different if you’re torturing a real creature for a brief moment before all effects and memory of it are erased, than if you’re just messing around with an illusion.Īnother method would be to treat it like a temporary Simulacra but again, that is created creature, not a real one (although presumably the Simulacra has 51% to 60% of the original’s moral agency). Whereas assuming it’s just some kind of force/illusion effect seems a lot more economical, especially since it acts exactly like that. That seems like a lot of magic for a 1st level spell. Also, nobody notices the original creature missing due to Summons spell, so now it’s Clone too! So a Summon spell reproduces Gate and Resurrection? And either the target is incredibly traumatized, or the spell also adds in False Memories. Although I suppose it doesn’t take much imagination to imagine angry diabolists hunting down an arcanist because their human sacrifice retroactively vanished and their demonic patron is unhappy about it.) The PCs get called in when recent transplant recipients start dropping dead because their new organs have vanished inside them. (In a modern setting with magic I’m imagining a similar scenario also resulting in organ donor scams. If you can’t find at least a half dozen potential scenarios in all of that, then you’re not really trying. You’ve got people obsessed with the summoned/created Catherines trying to stalk or kidnap the “real deal”. You’ve got mobsters trying to get their hands on the spell (and wizards possibly trying to stop them because they’re uncomfortable with that sort of thing). You’ve got the wizard’s guild encroaching on the whore business. “Catherine” just brings it into sharper focus and puts it center stage.Īnd even if you’re not interested in the ethical conundrums presented by this particular “what if”, consider all the immediate fantasy plots that fall out of it: You’ve got wizards fighting to gain (or protect) arcane secrets. There’s a really tremendous ethical mire lurking there. Not all of these issues actually require “Catherine” to show up in your setting: The summon monster spells already allow spellcasters to summon intelligent beings to come and do their bidding. ![]() ![]() I’m not sure if that simplifies the ethical implications of this concept or makes it much, much worse: Are these actually versions of Catherine from alternate dimensions? If so, does the Catherine of this dimension actually deserve any recompense for their labors of her other-dimensional “siblings”? They’re effectively immortal while here and if they’re actually returned to the same place and time as the one that they left, are they actually being exploited? What if people start disappearing from this dimension and it’s determined that it’s a result of people summoning them? ![]() Let’s start with a random rules check: Summoning spells physically bring the creature or object from some other place, they don’t create them out of whole cloth. Because this next bit isn’t going to make any sense unless you know what I’m talking about. ![]() First things first, you need to click through this link to Goblin Punch and read the blog post there: ![]()
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