Summonings

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

List of Summonings Spells

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

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

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 (atomic units of time)
  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: 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:

Summonings Aptitudes

From Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.10 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 {{{Dg}}} {{{Ds}}} 0 -1 +1 -1 +1 0 -1 -1 0 0 -3 -2 0 0 -3 0 -2 +2 -3 {{{Vp}}}
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