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I'm creating a little list of all the animals my D&D ranger can summon in higher levels and it's looking really professional so far. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/829125
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@adiwan You need to get a panther. Panthers are cool.
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@skellythos Before I dug through all the fine details in the rules I wanted to summon swarms of squirrels (my character has a pet squirrel) and I wanted to recreate the famous defeat of Dr Doom by Squirrel Girl. But the rules as they are stated prohibit me from summoning swarms because the spell says that I can only summon an exact number of animals and swarms are composed by more than that number. Besides the fluff text says that swarms are very unnatural and not ranger-like. With the "Conjure Animals" spell I could summon 8 panthers. I have to look into which animal does the most damage and has the most HP per challenge rating (that determines how many I can conjure).
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@adiwan Hire ten rangers to summon 8 panthers each, then you can send a swarm of panthers at your enemy.
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@adiwan Otherwise, summon squirrels multiple times, and use a talk with animals spell to convince them to act as a swarm.
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@skellythos It's a 3rd level spell and rangers have to be at least level 13 to cast it. It would be really hard to find that many who can do this. I could take the speak to animals spell but a ranger can choose only very few spells and can't swap them out. If I were a beast master ranger I'd make a bit more sense but I play mainly a standard bow-and-arrow ranger with animals as an afterthought.
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@adiwan Go to those stupid elves. They always have dozens of retired accomplished heroes of all classes who've retired from adventuring 300 years ago and are bored of not doing anything. It'd be a joke in a campaign I played with some friends that whenever my elf visited his home town he'd stumble upon really old family members at huge levels that didn't really do anything productive with their time and mostly just trained to remain in shape.
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@skellythos Our campaing is set in a world right after a 100 year war and finding a level 13 character (level 20 is the maximum) would mean that they have to be elite soldiers and thus be very rare to find.
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@adiwan "You're too late, Squirrel Girl! Superior Latverian technology has disabled your ability to summon your vermin!"
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@adiwan "I'll use all these panthers then, I guess??"
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@adiwan Guess you'll have to build a big cage on top of a cart and summon squirrels over multiple days. When you reach the enemy, you have someone cast rage and bull's strenght (no idea how stong a squirrel is, but a +4 would mean it'd be at least as strong as a pit dog) on the squirrels and open the cage.
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@thelastgherkin Dr Doom "Confound those wretched felines!"
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@skellythos Sadly it's a concentration spell and I can have only 1 concentration spell at a time and this spell lasts only 1 hour while being concentrated on this spell.
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@adiwan How does ranger summon spells work anyway? I'd assume that while a wizard could materialize them or summon them from another plane, a ranger's summon would be more akin to Aquaman calling his fish friends. The ranger calling creatures from the forest to aid him in battle. If they just come to him a la disney princess, they can be locked up and a second group summoned without issues.
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@skellythos Depending of the fluff a ranger calls upon his god or ghosts of his ancestors or nature spirits that give him magic powers. "Conjure Animals" in D&D 5th edition says that the caster summons fey spirits that take form of beasts the caster chooses.
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@adiwan Oh. Guess you'll have to capture the squirrels the hard way.
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@skellythos I'm not sure if the group could handle a crazy squirrel elf.
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@adiwan You're a ranger. You can do it without them noticing.
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