Geoffrey wrote:Several times I have heard that the Summon spell can destroy the campaign world, and most recently I heard James himself say so.
I can NOT find that anywhere! It's a long spell description, so perhaps I'm missing the reference. Can anyone provide the quote?
Some of the "Special Forms" that start on p 148 of the Grindhouse version could wreck a campaign world, depending on how far you take them. If someone casts Summon in a major metropolitan area, any of these effects could decimate a neighborhood if not the whole city (as could a more conventional monster, actually).
#3 causes a local breakdown in logic, but it could well become global. #4 might end all conflicts in the campaign area, leading to a story-ending peace or genocide at the hands of species not affected. #5 causes irrational jealous rages and the birth of monsters. In #6 an otherworldly entity bent on world domination possesses someone present; the entity suppresses all vestiges of will in other beings, even instincts of self-preservation and self-defense.
I'm sure the others have dire consequences that I haven't thought of yet.
Frank Mitchell
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