Planar Ally

Conjuration (Calling) [see text]
Level: Planes 4
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: Unlimited; see text
Target: One elemental or outsider with 6 HD or less
Duration: 1 min./caster level OR 1 hour/caster level OR 1 day/caster level; see text
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
Spell Points: 7

You call out towards the planes for aid.

By casting this spell, you request your deity to send you an elemental or outsider (of 6 HD or less) of the deity’s choice to aid you in some quest or task. If you serve no particular deity, the spell is a general plea answered by a creature sharing your philosophical alignment. If you know an individual creature’s name, you may request that individual by speaking the name during the spell (though you might get a different creature anyway).

Before casting the spell, you must decide how long you wish your ally to stay. The length of the stay affects this spell’s experience cost (see below).

The creature appears adjacent to you. It immediately asks what your request is. It is not under any obligation to do as you ask it to, although its starting attitude towards you is usually friendly. It is more inclined to perform tasks that directly advance the cause of your deity or the deity’s alignment, but less likely to accept tasks that are trivial or dangerous. You can bargain with this creature as you can with any other (using sweet words, rewards, threats, or lies, magical compulsions, or any other means at your disposal).

At the end of its task, or when the duration decided on when casting the spell expires, the creature returns to its home plane (after reporting back to you, if appropriate and possible).

When you use a calling spell to call an air, chaotic, earth, evil, fire, good, lawful, or water creature, it is a spell of that type.

Experience Cost: Varies with spell duration.

  • If you decide to have the spell last 1 minute per caster level, the spell costs 100XP + 20XP per HD of the creature called.

  • If you decide to have the spell last 1 hour per caster level, the spell costs 100XP + 100XP per HD of the creature called.

  • If you decide to have the spell last 1 day per caster level, the spell costs 100XP + 200XP per HD of the creature called.

Augment: For every 2 additional spell points you spend, you can call a creature with up to 3 more HD.