Make Planar Ally a Tier 4 Summon (at Higher Levels)

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Make Planar Ally a Tier 4 Summon (at Higher Levels)

Post by earthsong309 » Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:29 pm

Clerics don't get access to Greater Planar Binding, but it would make sense that a high-level cleric would be able to summon the aid of an alignment-appropriate greater planar creature such as the avenger or vrock rather than a marginal one such as the hound archon or succubus.

Say at around caster level 17 Planar Ally is upgraded to tier 4 so long as the cleric calls a creature of appropriate alignment (g: celestial, n: slaad, e: fiend).

This has the added benefit of adding more diversity to clerical summons so they're not all running around with elementals (which I feel are more druid-y than cleric-y).

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Re: Make Planar Ally a Tier 4 Summon (at Higher Levels)

Post by Peppermint » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:14 am

Not going to do this, because it's a 6th level spell. I don't want to put it on par with an 8th level one.

Gate fills this niche, though, albeit at a lower duration.

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