Summonings
Version 0.10: 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.
Contents
List of Summonings Spells
- Level 2
- Call Imp
- Level 3
- Abjuration
- Call Canine Familiar
- Recall
- Level 5
- Shadow Creatures
- Summon Demon
- 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:
- 90 aut (arbitrary units of time; 10aut = 1 "turn")
- 180 aut
- 270 aut
- 360 aut
- 810 aut
- 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:
- 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 0.10 in-game documentation:
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| 0 | -1 | {{{Dg}}} | {{{Ds}}} | 0 | -1 | +1 | -1 | +1 | 0 | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -3 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | -2 | +2 | -3 | {{{Vp}}} |
| Skills | |
|---|---|
| Weapons | Short Blades • Long Blades • Ranged Weapons
Axes • Maces & Flails • Polearms • Staves • Unarmed Combat • Throwing |
| Physical | Fighting • Armour • Dodging • Stealth • Shields |
| Magical | Spellcasting • Invocations • Evocations • Shapeshifting |
| Spell Schools | Air • Alchemy • Conjurations • Earth • Fire • Hexes • Ice • Necromancy • Summoning • Translocations |
