This is a quick question.

7 thoughts on “This is a quick question.”

1. Traditionally in D&D, Evocation magic involved the creation of energy of some sort—so Magic Missile & Fireball definitely fall under that category. Creating something physical was conjuration, of which summoning was a subschool indicating the subject is not being created but brought from somewhere else.

2. Might be rambling here, but from Wikipedia:

   Evocation is the act of calling or summoning a spirit, demon, god or other supernatural agent, in the Western mystery tradition.

   Just wanted to point out that the classification in most D&D-esque games a pretty arbitrary.

3. I think that “summon” (in a RpG like this one) should be “relegated” for creatures, spirits etc., while “evocation” should be the creation of some form of “energy”, matter etc.

4. Andrea Parducci That does seem to be how it is (ab)used in general 🙂

5. The way I see it, you’re opening a portal to the Black Gates and letting the mists there out. Since it involves planar stuff, it gets Summoning.

6. Yeah, you’re litterally summoning a thing from somewhere else, not just making something from nothing.

   But hey, easy hack if you want to change it.

7. You’re summoning a cloud of bad news from the Poison Dimension.

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