Summonings

Version 0.12: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

Summonings is a magical skill that governs your ability at bringing forth monsters and other entities to fight for you.

List of Summonings Spells

Lvl 1
	Summon Butterflies	Summonings
	Summon Small Mammals	Summonings
Lvl 2
	Call Imp	Summonings
Lvl 3
	Abjuration	Summonings
	Call Canine Familiar	Summonings
	Recall	Summonings/Translocations
Lvl 4
	Summon Elemental	Summonings
	Summon Ice Beast	Summonings/Ice Magic
	Summon Scorpions	Summonings/Poison Magic
Lvl 5
	Shadow Creatures	Summonings
	Summon Demon	Summonings
Lvl 6
	Demonic Horde	Summonings
	Mass Abjuration	Summonings
	Summon Ugly Thing	Summonings
Lvl 7
	Summon Greater Demon	Summonings
	Summon Hydra	Summonings
	Haunt	Summonings/Necromancy
	Malign Gateway	Summonings/Translocations
Lvl 8
	Summon Horrible Things	Summonings
Lvl 9
	Summon Dragon	Summonings

Sources of Summonings Spells

Main Texts

Book of Beasts (Summon Butterflies, Call Canine Familiar, Summon Ice Beast, Summon Hydra)

Book of Callings (Summon Small Mammals, Call Imp, Call Canine Familiar, Summon Scorpions, Summon Ice Beast)

Book of Summonings (Abjuration, Recall, Summon Elemental, Shadow Creatures, Summon Demon, Summon Ugly Thing)

Grand Grimoire (Demonic Horde, Mass Abjuration, Haunt, Summon Greater Demon, Malign Gateway, Summon Horrible Things)

Other Texts

Book of Cantrips (Summon Small Mammals)

Book of Dreams (Shadow Creatures)

Book of Envenomations (Summon Scorpions)

Book of Frost (Summon Ice Beast)

Book of Minor Magic (Call Imp)

Book of Party Tricks (Summon Butterflies)

Book of the Dragon (Summon Dragon)

Book of the Warp (Recall)

Book of Unlife (Recall)

Book of Wizardry (Summon Elemental)

Necronomicon (Haunt)

Other sources of summoning

• Scroll of summoning
• Rod of Summoning

Summoning Duration

Summoned monsters are generated with a duration between 1 and 6. This value roughly corresponds to the following amount in turns:

1. 90 aut (arbitrary units of time; 10aut = 1 "turn")
2. 180 aut
3. 270 aut
4. 360 aut
5. 810 aut
6. 1710 aut

Some summoning spells have a fixed duration. The other spells will increase monster duration with spell power.

Fixed Duration Spells

Summon Butterflies: 3

Summon Small Mammals: 3

Summon Scorpions : 3

Simulacrum : 6

Summon Hydra : 1

Summon Dragon : 6

Summon Horrible Things : 6

Summon Greater Demon: 5

Haunt : 3

Variable Duration Spells (Duration increases with spell power)

Sticks to Snakes: 3-5

Call Imp : 2-6

Call Canine Familiar 2-6

Summon Elemental 2-6

Summon Ice Beast: 2-6

Summon Ugly Thing: 2-6

Tukima's Dance : 2-6

Shadow Creatures : 1-4 (based on hit dice of monster)

Non-standard summoning

Herd card : 4

Brothers in Arms : 2-6

Summon Divine Warrior : 2-6

Summon Swarm : 2-6

Summon lesser demon: 2-6

Summon common demon: 2-6

Dealing with Hostile Summons

There are a few ways to deal with hostile summoned creatures:

• Using Abjuration or Mass Abjuration
• Having some form of Warding
• Leaving the level and coming back after they have disappeared.

Summonings Aptitudes

From Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.12 in-game documentation:

Hu	Ce	Dg	Ds	Dr	DD	DE	HE	SE	Fe	Gh	Ha	Ko	Mf	Mi	Mu	Na	Op	Og	HO	Sp	Te	Tr	Vp
0	-1	-1	0	0	-1	1	-1	1	0	-1	-1	0	0	-3	-2	0	0	-3	0	-2	2	-3	0

History

In 0.13, for each summoning spell there will be a limit of how many summons can be created. Going over this limit means that the older ones will time out in a turn or two. This will be applied only to non-necromantic, non-permanent player summons. The scroll of summoning and Makhleb's invocations will also ignore these caps. Temporary summons will no longer follow the player down stairs and will expire when the player moves to a different level.

Prior to 0.12 summoned monsters could attack monsters outside of the player's LoS.

As of 0.12, it is possible to summon or recall flying monsters over lava or deep water.