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“My will is law. Obey me.”

CLASS TRAITS
Role: Controller. You control the ebb and flow of the
battlefield by bringing aid in the form of otherworldly
creatures and by assaulting the minds of your enemies.
Power Source: Arcane. You've attuned yourself with the
arcane energies of another plane, granting you access to
the power therein.
Key Abilities: Charisma, Wisdom, Intelligence.

Armor Proficiencies: Cloth, leather

Weapon Proficiencies: Dagger, sickle, staff
Implement: Orb
Bonus to Defense: +2 Will

Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + Constitution score

Hit Points per Level Gained: 5
Healing Surges per Day: 7 + Constitution modifier

Trained Skills: Religion. From the class skills list below,

choose three more trained skills at 1st level.
Class Skills: Arcana (Int), Bluff (Cha), Diplomacy (Cha),
Dungeoneering (Wis), History (Int), Insight (Wis),
Intimidate (Cha), Nature (Wis), Religion (Int)

Build Options: Contractual Summoner, Ruinous

Summoner
Class Features: Controlled Summons, Covenant of the
Planes, summon minion, Ritual Casting, Summon Minion

Summoners are an unscrupulous lot. Practitioners of magic so

foul it shakes the boundaries between worlds and is the type to
ruin empires. By scourging a creature of its basic essence,
summoners send their minds into the furthest reaches of the
cosmos, calling forth the inhabitants they find there. While
some summoners are power hungry monsters, who simply
seek to destroy, many are visionaries, working with flawed tools
in an attempt to create beautiful masterpieces.
As a summoner you choose either the tireless powers
of the mindless undead or the carefully bartered services of the
immortal devils to accomplish your goals, calling either creature
into service as needed. You must carefully balance your need
of their abilities versus the risk of not being to control the thing
you've summoned.
Experience has taught you that infernal claws and
decayed fangs rend cloth as easily as flesh, and you have the
scars to prove it. You've learned to work in heavier armor than
most spellcasters, and your body has been hardened by the
tribulations or your training. That which doesn't kill you, right?

New Keyword Usage
Psychic Stance: A psychic stance is any power with both the
psychic and stance keywords. Psychic stances only replace
other psychic stances, as opposed to fighter stances, for
example. Psychic stances do not require line of sight or line of
effect.
Reliable: in addition to the normal benefits, a power with both
the reliable and summon keywords does not require a
knowledge check to successfully control the summoned
creature (see Controlled Summons below).
Summon: similar to conjuration, a power with the summon
keyword brings something into existence where once there was
nothing. Unlike a conjuration, however, this something was a
creature that already existed somewhere else.
Playing a Summoner
It is strongly advised that you consult your Dungeon Master
regarding the use of this class in their games. Introducing
additional monsters to the battlefield can potentially bog down
the game speed quite a bit. Try to keep things flowing and be
sure to have combat information regarding creatures you
control readily available. Your Dungeon Master will appreciate
it!
See the Summoner Tips and Tricks section after the feats for a
helping hand on playing a summoner from the designer's point
of view.
Creating a Summoner
The two basic builds of a summoner are the contractual
summoner and the ruinous summoner. Summoners rely on
Charisma the most, followed equally by Intelligence and
Wisdom. Many summoner powers make use of healing surges,
and Constitution will help protect a summoner from a summon
that's out of control. Summoner powers do not depend on
Strength or Dexterity.
Contractual Summoner
As a contractual summoner you expect your temporary allies to
be skilled creatures able to perform useful services, making the
most of their unique powers. Intelligence further enhances your
powers.
Select powers that make the most of your intelligence and you
ability to control the battlefield to maximum effect.
A contractual summoner should choose the soul barter
covenant.
Suggested Feat: Skill Focus (Religion)
Suggested Skills: Arcana, Diplomacy, Insight
Suggested At-will Powers: Summon Familiar, Twisted
Reflection
Suggested Encounter Power: Astral Current
Suggested Daily Power: Summon Imp
Ruinous Summoner
Calling upon the destructive might of the Shadowfell, you bring
forth creatures of great strength and fortitude to rain destruction
wherever they tread. Wisdom plays an integral role in your
ability to enhance your minions. Select powers that cause your
summons to do as much damage as possible.
A ruinous summoner should choose the shadow sworn
covenant.
Suggested Feat: Skill Focus (Religion)
Suggested Skills: Bluff, Dungeoneering, Intimidate
Suggested At-will Powers: Skitterbolt, Summon Minion
Suggested Encounter Power: Summon Zombie
Suggested Daily Power: Frenzy
Implements
Summoners make use of orbs as their chosen implement,
adding any enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls for
all summoner powers and summoner paragon path powers with
the implement keyword. A summoner can still use their powers
without an orb, but they lose access to their important Shatter
the Mind Orb option when summoning.
Summoner Class Features
Summoners have the following class features.
Controlled Summons
Your ability to control the lives of other creatures is tentative.
Absolute Control: When under your control a summoned
creature always acts on your turn, after you complete your own
actions. A summoned creature will perform only the actions
listed under of the Effect entry of a power with the stance
keyword. If you do not have an active stance, a summoned
creature you control is treated as helpless.
Attack Bonus: All creatures you summon, controlled or not,
gain a bonus to attack rolls equal to half your level.
Duration: Unless stated otherwise, a summoned creature
remains only while sustained, returning alive and well to where
it came from when it dies, or when you cease to sustain it.
Additionally, a summoned creatures cannot act the turn they
are summoned unless specifically stated otherwise.
Out of Control: Whenever you use a power to summon a
creature you must demonstrate master level knowledge of that
creature and its abilities, in order to control it. To do this you
need to know the creature's name, type and keywords, its
powers, and it's resistances and vulnerabilities (DC 25, 30 and
35 for heroic, paragon and epic tier creatures, respectively).
Success: you completed the summon without a problem. The
creature will persist and obey your commands so long as you
sustain it.
Failure: you have failed to control the creature you have
summoned. The power resolves as normal with the exception
that the new creature is now under the control of the Dungeon
Master, not the summoner. It will persist so long as the
Dungeon Master chooses.
Multiple Creatures: if a summon creates multiples of the same
creature you make one knowledge check per type of creature,
which determines the control of all creatures of the same type.
Shatter the Mind Orb: as a standard action you may shatter
an orb used to summon a creature (if any), destroying it utterly.
The unfortunate creature whose essence is bound to the device
dies instantly. Summoners most often use this power as a last
ditch effort to defeat summons that have gone out of control.
Covenant of the Planes
You have sworn fealty to the denizens of another world in a
binding covenant. The covenant you choose determines the
following summoner abilities.
Advanced Understanding: It is easier for you to summon
creatures you are more familiar with.
Covenant Blessing: Your specific covenant grants you a
covenant blessing when summoning the creatures you know
best.
The covenant you take also provides bonuses to certain
summoner powers. Individual powers detail the effects (if any)
your Covenant of the Planes selection has on them.
Shadow Sworn Covenant
The lost souls of the Shadowfell are at your beck and call,
granting you dominion over the manipulation of life itself.
Members of the Shadow Sworn Covenant summon undead.
Advanced Understanding: You receive a +5 bonus on
monster knowledge skill checks when attempting to summon
creatures with the undead subtype. Powers that grant benefits
according to your covenant have a greater effect on creatures
with the undead subtype.
Shadow Infusion: When you summon a creature with the
undead subtype, that creature receives a bonus to damage
rolls equal to your wisdom modifier.
Soul Barter Covenant
You've pledged your undying soul to the immortal devils of the
Astral Sea. They will answer your summons and obey your
commands, for now. Members of the Soul Barter Covenant
summon devils.
Advanced Understanding: You receive a +5 bonus on
monster knowledge skill checks when attempting to summon
creatures with the devil subtype. Powers that grant benefits
according to your covenant have a greater effect on creatures
with the devil subtype.
You gain Supernal as a bonus language.
Quid Pro Quo: When a summon you control with the devil
subtype is slain against your will, you gain temporary hit points
equal to the monster's level + your Intelligence modifier.
No Covenant
A summoner may opt to not have a planar covenant. Choosing
this option makes it harder to control any given summon at low
level, however, it allows the summoner to choose the Covenant
Breaker Paragon Path without consequence at 11th level.
Advanced Understanding: You receive a +2 bonus on
monster knowledge skill checks when attempting to summon a
creature.
Passive Aggressive: The creatures you summon are not
particularly inclined to see you as their enemy. When out of
control, your summons attack the nearest creature to the best
of their ability until the end of your next turn, after which they
depart.
Ritual Casting
You gain the Ritual Caster feat (page 200) as a bonus feat,
allowing you to use magical rituals (see Chapter 10). You
possess a ritual book, and start play knowing the ritual Make
Whole.
Summon Minion
Choose either Summon Familiar or Summon Minion as an at-
will power, and choose one other 1st level at-will power from
the list below to compliment your choice.
Summon Familiar Summoner Class Feature
You draw upon minds of the dead that inhabit the Shadowfell
and summon forth a shard of your soul mate's essence in the
shape of a tiny, shadowy animal.
At-Will ♦ Arcane, Conjuration
Standard Action Personal
Target: One creature
Summon: Lose a healing surge, but do not regain hit points.
Place a familiar (see Appendix) in the nearest unoccupied
space adjacent to yourself. The familiar acts immediately.
At 6th, 11th and 16th level the power of your familiar
increases.
Sustain None: Familiars do not need to be sustained.
Summon Host Summoner Class Feature
Using your own essence as a conduit, you break down the
barriers between worlds, ushering forth a union of allies
drawn to your power.
At-Will ♦ Arcane, Summon
Standard Action Area burst 1 within 5
Summon: Lose a healing surge, but do not regain hit points.
Place a minion representing your covenant in any
unoccupied square within the burst. All creatures summoned
by this spell use the statistics of a Decrepit Skeleton (page
234).
At 6th, 11th, 16th, 21st and 26th level, increase the number
of minions summoned by 1.
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creatures this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Shadow Sworn Covenant: Summon a Shadow Guard, a
dark and sinister being that was never really more than a
monster. Shadow Guards have the shadow origin and the
undead subtype.
Soul Barter Covenant: Summon a Damned Soul, a
creature beyond redemption that has yet to prove
themselves useful. Damned Souls have the immortal origin
and the devil subtype.
No Covenant: Summon a Farworld Squabbler, a twisted
reflection of humanity in the form of a cackling, ghoul-like
teen. Farworld Squabblers have the aberrant origin.
Summoner Powers
Your powers are also known as spells. Each power may be a
summon, a mental command that controls and enhances your
summons, or a power that attacks another creature.
Bonus Powers
Regardless of their level, summoners know one additional
power with both the Psychic and Stance keywords, and one
additional power with the Summon keyword.
Summoner Stances
Summoners use special abilities called psychic stances in
combat to issue blanket commands to their summons. If its
controller has an active psychic stance, and it is out of range of
that stance, a summoned creature acts as though under the
effects of a Recall command until it is within range of the
power. It adopts the effects of that stance as soon as it arrives.
Summoner Commands
Assault Summoner Command
A simple mental command is all it takes to turn your
monster's wrath upon a single target.
At-Will ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Stance
Move Action Close burst 20
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
Effect: The target attempts to attack a secondary target to
the best of its ability. Choose a secondary target.
Secondary Target: One creature.
Defend Summoner Command
You call for protection, and receive it.
At-Will ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Stance
Move Action Close burst 20
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
Effect: The target moves adjacent to a secondary target to
the best of its ability. Choose a secondary target.
Secondary Target: One creature
Effect: If at least one primary target is adjacent to it the
target gains cover, and once per round when targeted by a
melee or ranged attack may designate an adjacent primary
target as the subject of the attack instead.
Recall Summoner Command
Here boy!
At-Will ♦ Arcane
Minor Action Ranged infinite
Target: One or more summoned creatures you control
Effect: The target instinctively knows your location and
direction and returns to your side as quickly as possible,
following you once it arrives. This power does not require
line of sight or line of effect.
Suspend Summoner Command
You order your servants to wait for further commands.
At-Will ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Stance
Minor Action Close burst 20
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
Effect: The target waits in, or as close to, a designated
square as possible. It is treated as helpless.
Level 1 At-will Spells
Exploitation of Will Summoner Attack 1
Your mind is weak. Allow me to put it to better use.
At-will ♦ Arcane, Charm, Implement, Psychic
Standard Action Ranged 5
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and the target
is dazed (save ends).
Increase damage to 2d6 + Charisma modifier at 11th level
and 3d6 + Charisma modifier at 21st level.
Special: If the target is a summoned creature you do not
control the target is dominated instead (save ends).
Living Sacrifice Summoner Attack 1
With a sadistic smile and a malevolent flourish you pave the
way for future accomplishments.
At-Will ♦ Martial
Standard Action Melee weapon
Requirements: You must be wielding a dagger or sickle.
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + Charisma modifier, and you gain temporary hit
points equal to your level + Charisma modifier.
Increase damage to 2[W] + Charisma modifier at 11th level
and 3[W] + Charisma modifier at 21st level.
Skitterbolt Summoner Attack 1
You unleash a burst of wild primal energy upon your foes.
At-Will ♦ Arcane, Lightning, Radiant
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: 2d4 + Charisma modifier lightning and radiant damage,
and choose a secondary target.
Increase damage to 3d4 + Charisma modifier at 11th level
and 5d4 + Charisma modifier at 21st level.
Secondary Target: One creature within 2 squares of the
previous target, but further away from you.
Secondary Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: Reduce the number of damage dice by 1 and roll
damage again.
Effect: The target is marked and no longer gains any
benefits from concealment until the end of your next turn.
Skitterbolt will continue to strike secondary targets until it
deals 1 dice worth of damage, or an attack misses.
Twisted Reflection Summoner Attack 1
Perception is reality. I do not need to alter reality, I simply
need to alter the way you perceive it.
At-Will ♦ Arcane, Illusion, Psychic
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and choose a
secondary target.
Secondary Target: One ally or summoned creature you
control
Effect: The target gains concealment against the primary
target until the end of your next turn.
At 21st level the effect becomes total concealment.
Level 1 Encounter Spells Depths of Delirium Summoner Attack 1
Have you ever been lost in the furthest reaches of insanity?
Astral Current Summoner Attack 1 Come, let me show you.
The waves of an endless sea ebb and flow, trapping all Daily ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Stance
existence within. Standard Action Close burst 30
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Cold, Implement Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
Standard Action Ranged 10 Effect: On its turn the target takes 5 psychic damage, and
Target: One creature attacks the nearest enemy to the best of its ability. On a hit it
Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude deals additional psychic damage equal to 1d6 + your
Hit: 2d6 + Charisma modifier cold damage, and an ally or Charisma modifier, and ongoing 5 psychic damage (save
controlled summon of your choice may shift a number of ends).
squares equal to your Intelligence modifier.
Soul Barter Covenant: The target is slowed (save ends). Frenzy Summoner Attack 1
Rip them apart!
In the Face of Doom Summoner Attack 1 Daily ♦ Arcane, Implement, Necrotic
Rally, my friends, and stand firm! Standard Action Ranged 10
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Stance Target: One creature
Standard Action Close burst 20 Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier necrotic damage, and an ally or
Effect: The target acts as if under the effects of the Assault controlled summon of your choice within 10 squares may
or Defend command (your choice) until you activate another make a melee basic attack as a free action. Make a
psychic stance power. The target gains a +2 power bonus to secondary attack.
all defenses and is immune to fear. Secondary Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier necrotic damage, and an ally
Rampage Summoner Attack 1 or controlled summon of your choice within 10 squares may
Discretion is for the weak. Kill them all. make a melee basic attack as a free action.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Stance Shadow Sworn Covenant: Your ally or controlled summon
that benefits from this power may shift a number of squares
Standard Action Close burst 20
equal to your Wisdom modifier before attacking.
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
Effect: On its turn the target goes on a rampage, attacking Summon Imp Summoner Attack 1
the nearest enemy to the best of its ability, gaining a bonus to
With the fury of a thousand angels you summon forth the
attack and damage rolls equal to your Charisma modifier.
ultimate avatar of annoyance.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Fire, Implement, Summon
Summon Zombie Summoner Attack 1
Standard Action Ranged 5
Fear the walking dead I command.
Target: One creature
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Implement, Necrotic, Summon
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Standard Action Ranged 10
Hit: 2d6 + Charisma modifier fire damage, and perform a
Target: One creature summon.
Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude
Summon: Place an imp (page 63) in the nearest
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier necrotic damage, and perform unoccupied space adjacent to the target. The Imp is dazed
a summon. until the beginning of your next turn.
Summon: Place a Zombie (page 274) in the nearest Soul Barter Covenant: Summoned Imp's Vanish is a
unoccupied space adjacent to the target. The Zombie is move action.
dazed until the beginning of your next turn.
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creature this power
Shadow Sworn Covenant: Summoned Zombie gets +2 creates until the end of the encounter.
speed and does not suffer from Zombie Weakness.
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creature this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Level 2 Utility Spells
Contractual Obligation Summoner Utility 2
Level 1 Daily Spells You invoke your right of asylum as laid out in the terms of
your planar covenant.
Devil's Dance Summoner Attack 1
Encounter ♦ Arcane
Swaying with the motion of your opponents, your summons
Immediate Interrupt Personal
dance about the battlefield in a deadly display of murder and
mayhem. Trigger: You are hit by an attack
Daily ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Stance Effect: Force the attacker to reroll their attack with a -2
penalty. The second result stands, even if it's better.
Standard Action Close burst 20
Soul Barter Covenant: The attacker uses the lower of the
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
two results, with both attacks receiving a -2 penalty.
Effect: Once per round when an enemy moves, as an
immediate interrupt, the target may shift up to 3 squares and
make a melee basic attack.
Soul Barter Covenant: The target may shift a number of
squares equal to 3 + your Intelligence modifier.
Dual Essence Summoner Utility 2 Level 3 Encounter Spells
You got a little more than you bargained for.
Daily ♦ Arcane Corrupt Addiction Summoner Attack 3
Immediate Interrupt Personal Ultimate power ultimately corrupts. I can give you that
Trigger: You hit with a spell with the summon keyword power.
Effect: Choose one creature about to be summoned and Encounter ♦ Arcane, Implement, Psychic
increase the number summoned by 1. The cost to sustain Standard Action Ranged 20
the summon increases from free to minor, minor to move, Target: One creature
and move to standard. Summons that require a standard Attack: Charisma vs. Will
action to sustain cannot be increased. Hit: Ongoing 5 psychic damage, and the target adds your
Charisma modifier to their attack and damage rolls (save
Entropic Transfer Summoner Utility 2 ends both). At the start of its turn the target may choose to
What's mine is yours. not make a saving throw against this spell.
At-Will ♦ Arcane, Healing Miss: Ongoing 5 psychic damage (save ends).
Immediate Interrupt Personal
Trigger: You gain temporary hit points Read the Fine Print Summoner Attack 3
Effect: Transfer your existing temporary hit points (if any) to You make abundantly clear to your opponent the
a chosen creature within 10 squares. ramifications of their actions.
Special: You may transfer hit points in this way a number of Encounter ♦ Arcane, Implement, Psychic
times per encounter equal to your Constitution modifier Standard Action Ranged 10
(minimum 1). Target: One creature.
Attack: Intelligence vs. Will
Hit: 1d6 + Intelligence modifier psychic damage, and the
False Life Summoner Utility 2 target is dazed (save ends) and knocked prone.
My life is no longer my own, and I will not assume as much. Soul Barter Covenant: The target is stunned (save ends)
Daily ♦ Arcane, Healing instead of dazed.
Standard Action Personal
Effect: You gain temporary hit points equal to 1d10 + your Rotten Harvest Summoner Attack 3
Charisma modifier + your level. The ground cracks open in a long twisting rend and a fetid
mass of rotten flesh claws its way out.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Implement, Necrotic, Summon
Standard Action Area wall 6 within 6
Effect: Creatures caught within the wall as it forms take 1d4
+ Charisma modifier damage and are pushed out of the wall
into the nearest unoccupied space.
Summon: Place six Zombie Rotters (page 274) in the
spaces that the wall occupies. Zombie Rotters are
immobilized (no save).
Shadow Sworn Covenant: Add your Wisdom modifier to
the initial damage of the spell.
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creatures this power
creates until the end of the encounter.

Twisting Spite Summoner Attack 3

How easy it is to contort the idea of a memory.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Implement, Psychic
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 2d8 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and the target
makes a melee or ranged basic attack against the creature of
your choice as a free action.
Level 5 Daily Spells
Soul Cinders Summoner Attack 5
Blind Man's Gambit Summoner Attack 5 Don't worry, you won't need it anyway.
I give to you a piece of myself, but in exchange I want to Daily ♦ Arcane, Fire, Healing
watch them suffer. Standard Action Ranged 5
Daily ♦ Arcane, Implement Target: One creature
Standard Action Ranged 20 Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude
Target: One or two creatures Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier fire damage
Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude, and lose one healing surge Effect: The target regains hit points as if they'd spent a
per target healing surge, and gains additional hit points equal to 2d6 +
Hit: 4d6 + Charisma modifier, and make a secondary attack. your Charisma modifier. In addition, they gain regeneration
You are blinded until the end of your next turn. equal to your Charisma modifier until the end of the
Secondary Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude encounter, however, the target also takes 1d6 additional fire
Hit: 2d6 + Charisma modifier damage, and the target is damage whenever they are hit by an attack that targets their
blinded (save ends). AC, Fortitude or Reflex defense.

Boneshard Skeleton Summoner Attack 5 Level 6 Utility Spells

This husk of twisting splintered bones barely resembles the
skeleton it's made from. Body Swap Summoner Utility 6
Daily ♦ Arcane, Implement, Necrotic, Summon You, get over here. I need to be there.
Standard Action Ranged 10 Encounter ♦ Arcane, Teleportation
Target: One creature, and each creature in burst Move Action Ranged 10
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex Target: You, an ally or one summoned creature you control
Hit: 2d6 + Charisma modifier necrotic damage, and perform Effect: Choose a secondary target.
a summon. Secondary Target: You, an ally, or one summoned
Summon: Place a Boneshard Skeleton (page 235) in the creature you control
nearest unoccupied space adjacent to the target. The Effect: The targets switch places.
Boneshard Skeleton is dazed until the start of your next
turn. Eye for an Eye Summoner Utility 6
Shadow Sworn Covenant: The Boneshard Skeleton The whole world shall go blind.
makes an explosive entrance. Make an attack with its Daily ♦ Arcane, Psychic
boneshard ability as a free action. Immediate Reaction Personal
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creatures this power Trigger: You are hit by an attack
creates until the end of the encounter.
Effect: Your attacker takes an equal amount of psychic
damage and is blinded (save ends).
Fury of the Fallen Summoner Attack 5
You channel the subversive energies of the Shadowfell Exchange of Sin Summoner Utility 6
through your mind, sending all before you into a self
Your sins are mine, and mine yours. Together we shall
annihilating, berserk rage.
embrace the lords of damnation.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Stance
At-Will ♦ Arcane, Healing
Standard Action Close Burst 10
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
Target: You, one ally or one summoned creature you control
Effect: At the start of its turn the target takes 5 psychic within range
damage, and moves towards the nearest creature. If at the
Effect: The target loses a healing surge and loses hit points
end of its turn the target is adjacent to a creature it makes
equal to their healing surge value. Choose a secondary
two melee basic attack against an adjacent creature.
target.
Shadow Sworn Covenant: At any point on its turn the
Secondary Target: You, one ally or one summoned
target may shift a number of squares towards the nearest
creature you control within 10
creature equal to your Wisdom modifier.
Effect: The target may spend a healing surge.
Special: Creatures under the effects of this power will not
attack you or each other.
Reaper's Shadow Summoner Utility 6
Gaze of the Abyss Summoner Attack 5 I shall shroud myself in darkness and bring death to the sun.
Look deep into my eyes and be lost in the never ending void Daily ♦ Arcane
you find there. Standard Action Close burst 3
Daily ♦ Arcane, Implement, Psychic Effect: A cloud of absolute blackness appears around you
Standard Action Ranged 5 and moves with you until the end of your next turn. The
effect grants total concealment and blocks line of sight for all
Target: One creature
creatures except you and summoned creatures you control.
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Other creatures within the cloud are blinded.
Hit: 1d8 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and the target
Shadow Sworn Covenant: You can sustain the effect as a
is stunned (save ends, or until it takes any damage).
move action.
Soul Barter Covenant: Target is stunned for a number of
rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier (or until it takes
damage).
Level 7 Encounter Spells
Burnt Offerings Summoner Attack 7
Taste the flames of Asmodeus!
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Fire, Psychic, Stance
Standard Action Area burst 20
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
Effect: The target bursts into flames, emanating waves of
searing heat in all directions At the start of its turn the target
takes 10 psychic damage, is immobilized, stunned and gains
aura 1; 2d6 + controller's Charisma modifier fire damage.
Guardian Legion Summoner Encounter 7
You face not me alone, but the legions I command.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Fire, Implement, Summon
Standard Action Ranged 5
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier fire damage, and perform a
summon.
Summon: Place two Legion Devil Grunts (page 64) in the
nearest unoccupied spaces adjacent to yourself.
Soul Barter Covenant: Summoned Legion Devil Grunts
have the Contractual Obligation power (no covenant bonus;
Summoner Utility 2, as above).
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creatures this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Persuasive Argument Summoner Attack 7
I am not the one you're looking for.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Implement, Psychic
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and make a
secondary attack.
Secondary Attack: Choose one ally or summoned
creature you control and have them make a basic melee
attack against the target.
Hit: Ally's basic melee attack damage + your Charisma
modifier, and the target is marked by your ally.
Soul Barter Covenant: Your ally may shift a number of
squares equal to your intelligence modifier before attacking,
and the target is immobilized (save ends) if your ally hits.
Siphon Pain Summoner Attack 7
Fuel me with your suffering.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Implement, Necrotic, Psychic
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and you gain
an amount of temporary hit points equal to the damage dealt.
If you currently have any temporary hit points, transfer those
hit points to an ally or summoned creature you control within
10 squares. The target is weakened, and make a secondary
attack.
Secondary Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and you
gain an amount of temporary hit points equal to the
damage dealt. If you currently have any temporary hit
points, transfer those hit points to an ally or summoned
creature you control within 10 squares. The target is
slowed.
Level 9 Daily Spells
Corpse Explosion Summoner Attack 9
Boom, baby.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Necrotic, Psychic, Stance
Move Action Ranged 20
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
Effect: The target acts as if under the effects of the Assault
or Defend command (your choice) until you activate another
psychic stance power. If it the target dies, and it has the
undead subtype, it explodes violently. Make an attack,
Charisma vs. Reflex, dealing 2d6 + your Charisma modifier
necrotic damage to all adjacent creatures.
Shadow Sworn Covenant: As a move action you may
cause one creature with the undead subtype under the
effects of this stance to detonate, as above. Add your
Wisdom modifier to all damage rolls from this power.
Foul Replacement Summoner Attack 9
By the sacred covenant and the powers I command, face
the... what is that?
Daily ♦ Arcane, Implement, Force, Summon
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2d8 + Charisma modifier force damage, and the target is
dazed (save ends). Perform a summon.
Summon: Place a Foulspawn Mangler (page 112) in the
nearest unoccupied space adjacent to the target. The
Foulspawn Mangler acts immediately.
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creature this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Miss: You are dazed (save ends). Summon a creature, as
above, but place it in the nearest unoccupied square
adjacent to yourself.
Hostile Negotiations Summoner Attack 9
I think it's about time we negotiated the terms of a
settlement.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Stance
Standard Action Close burst 10
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
Effect: The target attacks the nearest enemy to the best of
its ability. Whenever it hits with an attack it deals an
additional 1d6 + Charisma modifier psychic damage and you
gain temporary hit points equal to the damage dealt.
Soul Barter Covenant: Deal additional damage equal to
your Intelligence modifier.
Magic Jar Summoner Attack 9
You attempt to usurp control of another creature by replacing
its soul with your own.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Psychic
Standard Action Ranged 5
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will, and lose a healing surge
Hit: 2d6 + Charisma modifier psychic damage.
Effect: You are unconscious and the target is dominated
until the start of your next turn.
Sustain Free: The effect persists. Spend a healing surge
but do not regain hit points. You can sustain this power even
when unconscious.
Level 10 Utility Spells Early Grave Summoner Attack 13
You're much closer than you think.
Deal With a Devil Summoner Utility 10 Encounter ♦ Arcane, Implement
No matter how much you think it is, it's never a good deal. Standard Action Ranged 10
Daily ♦ Arcane, Conjuration Target: One creature
Standard Action Ranged 5 Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Target: You or one creature Hit: 2d10 + Charisma modifier damage and the target is
Effect: The target receives a heroic tier item of your choice pulled down into a grave-like chamber beneath the battlefield
that lasts until the end of the encounter or for 5 minutes. until the end of your next turn.
Effect: The target is restrained and prone a number of
Psychic Backlash Summoner Utility 10 squares beneath the battlefield equal to its reach (minimum
You push and I push back harder. 1). This does not prevent the creature from escaping via
other means, such as teleportation or burrowing.
At-Will ♦ Arcane
Sustain Move: The effect persists.
Immediate Reaction Personal
Miss: The target is immobilized (save ends).
Trigger: You are hit by an attack that targets your Will
defense
Deadly Grounds Summoner Attack 13
Effect: The creature that hit you takes a penalty to their Will
defense equal to your Charisma modifier until the end of their Call down your shepherd, for you walk through the valley of
next turn. the shadow of death.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Zone
Sufferance Summoner Utility 10 Standard Action Area burst 2 within 10
Excess is the penultimate in decadence. Target: Each enemy in burst
Encounter ♦ Arcane Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Immediate Reaction Personal Hit: 2d8 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and creates a
zone that lasts until the end of your next turn.
Trigger: You use an encounter power
Zone: If the target ends their turn outside of the zone they
Effect: Lose a healing surge but do not gain hit points, and
take 1d8 + Charisma modifier psychic damage and are
take damage equal to your healing surge value. You regain
dazed until the end of their next turn.
the use of the power that triggered this power.
Sustain Free: Spend a healing surge each turn. You can
sustain this power until the end of the encounter.
Susurrus Summoner Utility 10
I hear the whispers of the gods. They tell me all your
secrets.
Encounter ♦ Arcane
Move Action Personal
Effect: Choose one creature. Until the end of the encounter
you gain a power bonus to all defenses equal to your
Charisma modifier against that creature.

Level 13 Encounter Spells

Ashes to Ashes Summoner Attack 13
Equally forged of dust and shadow we are one and the
same, and unto these things we shall be again.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Fire, Implement, Necrotic
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1d6 + Wisdom modifier necrotic damage and 1d6 +
Intelligence modifier fire damage.
Effect: The target becomes weakened and insubstantial until
the end of your next turn. You become insubstantial until the
end of your next turn.
Sustain Move: The effect persists.
Foul Attendant Summoner Attack 13
Our bond is in blood. Our minds are one. Under pain of
death, you shall... not you again!
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Force, Implement, Summon
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 1d8 + Charisma modifier force damage, and perform a
summon.
Summon: Place a Foulspawn Grue (page 112) in the
nearest unoccupied space adjacent to the target. The
Foulspawn Grue is dazed until the beginning of your next
turn.
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creature this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Level 15 Daily Spells
Astral Rebirth Summoner type X
Calling upon the source that summoned them, you infuse
your creations with a powerful surge of sustaining energy.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Healing, Psychic, Stance
Standard Action Close burst 10
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
Effect: The target acts as if under the effects of the Assault
or Defend command (your choice) until you activate another
psychic stance power. The target gains regeneration equal
to your Charisma modifier.
Foul Guard Summoner Attack 15
Quake in terror before the awesome might of... of... yeah,
that'll work.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Force, Implement, Summon
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2d8 + Charisma modifier force damage, and perform a
summon.
Summon: Place a Foulspawn Hulk (page 113) in the
nearest unoccupied space adjacent to the target.
Sustain Move: You can sustain the creature this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Horror of the Planes Summoner Attack 15
You send your will to another place on another plane and call
upon the terror that resides there. To your amazement, it
answers.
Daily ♦ Arcane (Cold, Fire, Lightning or Thunder),
Implement, Summon
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: 2d8 + Charisma modifier cold, fire, lightning or thunder
damage (choose one), and perform a summon.
Summon: Place a Helmed Horror (page 155) in the
nearest unoccupied space adjacent to the target. The
Helmed Horror is dazed until the beginning of your next
turn.
Sustain Move: You can sustain the creature this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Mind Quake Summoner Attack 15
Do you feel that? That's what insanity feels like.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Implement, Psychic
Standard Action Area burst 3 within 10
Target: Each creature in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 2d6 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and the target
slides 2 squares in a random direction.
Effect: At the end of its next turn the target slides 2 squares
in a random direction and makes a melee basic attack
against a random adjacent creature (if any), then falls prone.
Sustain Standard: Make a Charisma vs. Will attack against
the target. On a hit, the target takes psychic damage equal
to your Charisma modifier and the effect continues. On a
miss, the effect ends.
Level 16 Utility Spells
Bidding of the Master Summoner Utility 16
My strength of my mind alone shall drag you to this world,
willing or not.
Daily ♦ Arcane
Immediate Interrupt Personal
Trigger: You hit with a spell with the summon keyword
Effect: Gain a power bonus on the skill check required to
control the summon equal to your Charisma modifier.
Essence of Abundance Summoner Utility 16
Can I get that in triplicate?
Daily ♦ Arcane
Immediate Interrupt Personal
Trigger: You hit with a spell with the summon keyword
Effect: Choose one creature about to be summoned and
increase the number summoned by 2. The cost to sustain
the summon increases from free to minor, minor to move,
and move to standard. Summons that require a standard
action to sustain cannot be increased.
Slipshift Summoner Attack 16
Whoops.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Teleportation
Move Action Personal
Effect: You teleport 3d6 squares in a random direction. If
you cannot occupy the space in which you land, randomly
determine a new destination.
Soul Barter Covenant: Pick the direction you travel.
Special: This ability does not require line of sight or line of
effect.
Sons of Orcus Summoner type 16
Three human skulls trailing sickly black flames and smelling
of burnt flesh appear around you, flying about randomly.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Conjuration, Necrotic
Standard Action Personal
Effect: Up to three times before the end of the encounter,
when you are hit by an attack, you may send forth one of
three skulls to torment and assail your attacker, imposing a
-2 penalty on all of their attack rolls and defenses until the
end of the encounter.
Shadow Sworn Covenant: You may detonate a single
skull as a minor action, dealing 1d6 + Wisdom modifier
necrotic damage to its target.
Level 17 Encounter Spells
Blackburn Arc Summoner type 17
You throw forth your hand, sending a blistering beam of
crackling black lightning at your target, bouncing it across the
battlefield.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Implement, Fear, Lightning
Standard Action Ranged 20
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: 4d6 + Charisma modifier lightning damage, and make a
secondary attack.
Secondary Target: One creature within 10 squares of the
target, but further away from you, and one other creature
within 10 squares of the secondary target, but further away
from you.
Secondary Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: 2d6 + Charisma modifier lightning damage.
Shadow Sworn Covenant: All targets take additional
damage equal to your Wisdom modifier, and are
immobilized (save ends).
Soul Barter Covenant: All targets take additional damage
equal to your Intelligence modifier, and are weakened
(save ends).
Firing Squad Summoner Attack 17
A team of blazing skeletons explodes into existence before
you, scorching the ground as they peel forward from your
opponent flesh, ready to open fire at your command.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Fire, Implement, Summon
Standard Action Close blast 5
Target: Each creature in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: 1d4 + Charisma modifier fire damage.
Summon: Place four Blazing Skeleton (page 234) in the
nearest unoccupied space within the blast. The Blazing
Skeletons are dazed until the start of your next turn.
Sustain Move: You can sustain the creatures this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Miss: Half damage, and summon one Blazing Skeleton, as
above.
Foul Vision Summoner Attack 17
If you're going to insist on being here, I'm going to decide
when you show up, okay?
Daily ♦ Arcane, Force, Implement, Summon
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 1d8 + Charisma modifier force damage, and perform a
summon.
Summon: Place a Foulspawn Berserker (page 112) in the
nearest unoccupied space adjacent to the target. The
Foulspawn Berserker is dazed until the beginning of your
next turn.
Sustain Move: You can sustain the creature this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Mortal Coil Summoner Attack 17
Harken to the sound of a million shuffling fools.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Fear, Psychic
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 2d10 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and the
target is weakened (save ends). Push the target a number of
squares equal to your Charisma modifier.
Level 19 Daily Spells
Dire Replication Summoner Attack 19
With every gouging claw, stinging tail, and rending of the
flesh your minions perform, they tear down the barrier
between worlds, calling further assistance.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Conjuration, Psychic, Stance
Standard Action Close burst 20
Target: Each summoned creature you control in burst
Effect: The target acts as if under the effects of the Assault
command until you activate another psychic stance power.
Whenever it hits a creature with an attack it conjures an exact
duplicate of itself in an adjacent, unoccupied square with 1 hit
point. The duplicate acts immediately and persists until the
end of the encounter. Duplicated creatures copy their
creator's actions to the best of their ability. They do not need
to be sustained or controlled, but do not gain the benefits of
this stance or any other.
Empowered Will Summoner Attack 19
My will is strength and power. My mind is yours, embrace it!
Daily ♦ Arcane, Psychic
Standard Action Close burst 20
Target: Each ally and summoned creature you control in
burst
Effect: The target gains a bonus to attack and damage rolls
equal to your Charisma modifier until the end of your next
turn.
Sustain Minor: The effect persists.
Foul Following Summoner Attack 19
Look, there's just no room in my army for... how many of you
are there?
Daily ♦ Arcane, Force, Reliable, Summon
Standard Action Close burst 5
Target: Each creature in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. AC
Hit: 2d4 + Charisma modifier force damage.
Summon: Place a Foulspawn Grue, Foulspawn Mangler,
Foulspawn Berserker, Foulspawn Seer and Foulspawn Hulk
(page 112 and 113) in the nearest unoccupied spaces
adjacent to yourself.
Sustain Standard: You can sustain the creatures this
power creates until the end of the encounter.
Miss: Perform a summon, as above.
Mind Foil Summoner Attack 19
Like a great tapestry of woven colors I can see the absolute
ends to which your thoughts extend and the image the
threads of your memories create.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Psychic
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 4d6 + Charisma modifier psychic damage
Effect: Until the end of your next turn the target cannot tell
which thoughts are yours and which are its own. Whenever it
makes an attack you choose the target. If it moves any
number of squares, choose the direction that it moves. If it
delays or takes no action, treat it as dominated.
Sustain Move: Make an attack, Charisma vs. Will. On a hit
the target takes psychic damage equal to your Charisma
modifier and the effect persists. On a miss the effect ends.
Miss: Half damage, and the target is dazed until the end of
your next turn.

Paragon Paths
Chosen Soul
“Your dedication impresses me greatly.”
Prerequisites: Summoner class, and must worship a single
deity.
You've seen the very depths of a deprived soul, and still you've
toiled for the purpose of a greater cause. Your efforts have not
gone unnoticed. Your deity has chosen you to be their
champion and has granted you the service of their personal
agents. Continue the work you started and become something
more than mortal.
Chosen Soul Path Features
Favored Child (11th level): The deity whom you serve smiles
upon you as you struggle before them. You gain resistance 5
to radiant damage.
Shoulder Angel (11th level): Emboldened by the words of
your god, you call upon the services they have promised you.
Creatures you summon with the angel subtype are treated the
same as creatures of your Planar Covenant for the purposes of
feats and bonuses that rely on your Planar Covenant.
Immortal Promotion (16th level): Your service in the cause is
rewarded once again. When using your Guardian Angel power
you may summon an Angel of Protection (page 15) instead of
an Angel of Valor.
Guardian Angel Chosen Soul Attack 11
You are the champion of my cause. I send to you my
warriors to aid and protect you.
Encounter ♦ Divine, Radiant, Reliable, Summon
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier radiant damage, and perform a
summon.
Summon: Place an Angel of Valor (page 15) in the nearest
unoccupied space adjacent to yourself.
Sustain Move: You can sustain the creature this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
On Golden Wing Chosen Soul Utility 12
Your deity gifts you with wings befitting their image, and
sends you majestically across the battlefield.
Daily ♦ Divine
Standard Action Personal
Effect: You gain a speed of fly 8 (hover) until the end of your
next turn.
Sustain Move: You can sustain this power until the end of
the encounter. If you do not sustain it, the power ends
immediately and you plummet to the ground, taking fall
damage as normal.
Vengeance Incarnate Chosen Soul Attack 20
In an explosion of blinding light you assume the form of a
fearsome avatar of vengeance, issuing forth a clarion call for
the blood of the faithless.
Encounter ♦ Divine, Radiant, Reliable, Summon
Standard Action Close burst 3
Target: Each creature in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 2d6 + Charisma modifier radiant damage.
Summon: Remove yourself from the battlefield and place an
Angel of Vengeance (page 17) in your space. Lose one
healing surge and hit points equal to your bloodied value or
the summon fails.
Sustain Minor: Spend a healing surge but do not regain hit
points.
Miss: Summon a creature, as above.
Special: When the Angel of Vengeance departs it activates
its Coldfire Pillar ability (regardless of its hit points). Place
yourself back on the battlefield in one of its most recently
occupied squares.
Covenant Breaker
“I once was blind, but now I see.”
Prerequisites: Summoner class, no covenant
There's so much more than what you previously imagined. So
many worlds to tap for power. You've broken the sacred
covenant, freeing yourself to scour the depths of places you've
only heard of in legend. Such actions are not without
consequence, however.
Special: Covenant Breakers with an active covenant when they
enter this path lose the benefits that class feature. In addition,
they suffer a -5 penalty on all attack rolls, defenses and skill
checks. Each time one milestone is reached this penalty is
reduced by 1.
Covenant Breaker Path Features
Gambling with Lives (11th level): You understand better than
most the risk in failing to control a summon. Once per day you
may gain a +5 bonus on a monster knowledge check made to
control a summoned creature, after you know the results of
your check.
Mental Corruption (11th level): The furthest depths of the
planes have been touched by your mind, making it a wholly
alien thing. You gain a +2 bonus to your Will defense.
True Summoner (16th level): Your knowledge of the cosmos
is unparalleled. You gain a +5 bonus on monster knowledge
checks made to control a summoned creature.
 Omnisummon, Lesser Covenant Breaker Attack 11 summons a creature with the devil subtype.
Have you ever seen one of these before? Seasoned Lawyer (11th): Mortal politics seem so utterly
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Summon mundane compared to the intricacies of the nine hells. You
gain a +2 bonus on all diplomacy and insight skill checks.
Standard Action Ranged 10
Legion Commander (16th): You've earned your station, and
Target: One creature those you call upon rightfully respect it, usually. Once per
Attack: Charisma vs. Will encounter you may reroll a failed monster knowledge check
Hit: 1d8 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and perform a made to control a summoned creature with the devil subtype.
summon. The second result stands, even if its worse.
Summon: Place a creature of your choice (see below) in
the nearest unoccupied space adjacent to the target. You Personal Attendant Legionnaire Attack 11
may summon any creature with the aberrant, elemental, Will there be anything else, my queen?
fey, immortal or shadow origin that is level 6 or lower.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Fire, Reliable, Summon
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creature this power
Standard Action Ranged 5
creates until the end of the encounter.
Target: One creature
Special: Your Dungeon Master may optionally dictate that
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
this power replicates any summoner power with the summon
keyword of level 7 or lower as a reliable summon. You Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier fire damage, and perform a
cannot summon Elite or Solo monsters with this power. summon.
Summon: Place a Succubus (or an Incubus, their male
Astral Mind Covenant Breaker Utility 12 counterpart, page 67) in the nearest unoccupied space
adjacent to yourself. Summoned Succubi and Incubi,
Do what you will to me, my allies shall act in my absence.
cannot charm creatures for longer than one encounter.
Daily ♦ Arcane
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creature this power
Immediate Reaction Personal creates indefinitely.
Trigger: You are somehow prevented from sustaining or
controlling your summons, such as when you are dominated Uniformed Agent of Hell Legionnaire Utility 12
or stunned, or even dead.
Hot enough for you?
Effect: For a number of rounds equal to your Charisma
At-Will ♦ Arcane, Fire
modifier you may sustain your summons as normal and can
still activate powers with both the psychic and stance Standard Action Personal
keywords. If you later regain the ability to control your Effect: Until the end of your next turn you gain resistance 10
summons, you must resume sustaining them as normal. against fire, and Shroud of Flame (Fire) aura 1; any creature
that enters or starts its turn in the aura takes 5 fire damage.
Omnisummon, Greater Covenant Breaker Attack 20 Sustain Minor: The effect persists.
My mind is all places at all times. There is nothing I have not
seen. No creature I cannot call.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Psychic, Summon
Standard Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 2d8 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and perform a
summon.
Summon: Place a creature of your choice (see below) in
the nearest unoccupied space adjacent to the target. You
may summon any creature with the aberrant, elemental,
fey, immortal or shadow origin that is level 12 or lower.
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creature this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Special: Your Dungeon Master may optionally dictate that
this power replicates any summoner power with the summon
keyword of level 15 or lower as a reliable summon. You
cannot summon Solo monsters with this power.

Legionnaire
“I pledge to you my eternal soul, and in exchange purchase an
elevation in station amongst the ranks of the damned.”

Prerequisites: Summoner class, Soul Barter Covenant

Not content to trade your soul away one piece at a time, you've
sold off the whole damn thing to the powers below. Now it's a
matter of improving your market value.
Legionnaire Path Features
Call for Reinforcements (11th): There's always more where
that came from. Once per day you may regain the use of a
daily or encounter power with the summon keyword that
 Chain of Command Legionnaire Attack 20
The ground ripples and trembles before cracking and splitting
to reveal an endless pit of fire. Screams of agony rush
upward from within, vomiting a pillar of ash skyward as you
summon your superior officer to the battlefield.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Fire, Summon
Standard Action Area burst 3 within 5
Target: Each creature in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: 2d6 + Charisma modifier fire damage.
Summon: Place an Osyluth (page 62) in the nearest
unoccupied squares adjacent to or within the area, centering
it within the burst if possible.
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creature this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Miss: Half damage.
Shadow Reaper
“Death comes to us all.”
Prerequisites: Summoner class, Shadow Sworn Covenant
The Shadowfell is a twisted place inhabited by waking
nightmares and terrifying beasts. Drifting amongst the horrors
are the souls of the fallen, on their way to their final resting
place beyond the mortal realms. To you, this place is home,
and you'd really like to show it off.
Shadow Reaper Path Features
Tools of the Trade (11th): It's all about having the right look.
You gain weapon proficiency (scythe) and weapon focus
(scythe) as bonus feats. You gain the ability to use the Living
Sacrifice power with a scythe and deal 1[W] extra damage with
that power.
Cloak of Death (11th): You've come to embody the perfect
killer, silent, swift and deadly. You gain Skill Training (Stealth)
as a bonus feat, or Skill Focus (Stealth), if you're already
trained.
Death's Apprentice (16th): Perhaps you've spent a little too
much time in contact with the realm of the dead. You gain the
undead subtype, immunity to poison and disease, resistance 10
to necrotic damage and vulnerability 10 to radiant damage.
Phantom Pains Shadow Reaper Attack 11
You put your hand to the ground and draw forth the spirits of
ancient soldiers that died there, countless generations ago.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Necrotic, Summon
Standard Action Close burst 2
Target: Each creature in burst.
Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude
Hit: 1d4 + Charisma modifier necrotic damage.
Summon: Place two Phantom Warriors (page 116) in the
nearest unoccupied squares adjacent to yourself. Phantom
Warriors are dazed until the start of your next turn.
Sustain Minor: You can sustain the creatures this power
creates until the end of the encounter.
Reaper's Scythe Shadow Reaper Utility 12
The wicked curve of your signature weapon darkens to the
shade of an infinite void, twisting and warping the world in
which it slides, drawing in all the light that touches it.
Encounter ♦ Arcane, Necrotic
Standard Action Personal
Requirement: You must be wielding a scythe
Effect: Melee attacks with your scythe deal 1d6 additional
necrotic damage, and all damage dealt is necrotic. In
addition, melee attacks with your scythe deal full damage to
insubstantial creatures and ignore up to 10 points of necrotic
resistance.
Sustain Minor: The effect persists.
Wail of the Banshee Shadow Reaper Attack 20
It is the howl of the dead, a sound which no living creature
could possibly replicate. It is a sound that strips bones and
breaks minds.
Daily ♦ Arcane, Thunder
Standard Action Close blast 10
Target: Each creature in blast
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 4d6 + Charisma modifier thunder damage.
Effect: The target is pushed 1 square, and is stunned until
the end of your next turn.
Sustain Standard: Deal thunder damage equal to 1d6 +
your Charisma modifier, and the effect persists. You can
sustain this power as a standard action if you do not move.
Miss: Half damage, and the target is pushed 1 square and
dazed until the end of your next turn.
Summoner Feats
Heroic Tier Feats
Prodigious Summoner (Summoner)
Prerequisites: Summoner, Planar Covenant class feature
Benefit: Choose one power with the summon keyword of any
level you can cast. Add that power to your list of spells known.

Soul Scouring (Summoner)

Prerequisites: Summoner, Controlled Summons class feature
Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls when using a
power with the summon keyword.

Stance Dance (Summoner)

Prerequisites: Summoner, Controlled Summons class feature
Benefit: Choose one power with the stance keyword of any
level you can cast. Add that power to your list of spells known.

Acolyte of the Covenant

(Multiclass Summoner)
Prerequisite: Cha 13
Benefit: Once per encounter you can use the summoner's
Summon Minion power (any covenant). You may use all of
their command powers at will.
In addition, you can use an orb as an implement when using a
summoner power or summoner paragon path power and have
access to the Controlled Summons class feature.

Paragon Tier Feats

Overmind (Summoner)
Prerequisites: Stance Dance feat, Summoner, Controlled
Summons class feature
Benefit: Once per day you may activate a standard action
power with the stance keyword as a minor action.
Ego Boost (Summoner)
Prerequisites: Stance Dance feat, Summoner, Controlled
Summons class feature
Benefit: Increase the range of your stance powers by 10
Summoner Tips and Tricks
The following section is designed to make playing a summoner
a little more fluid and easier to understand. What you'll find in
this section is basically the author's personal perspective
regarding various intentional design tricks.
Pre-emptive Stances: knowing how to get your summons to do
what you want is difficult in its own right. The intentional design
regarding stances makes it problematic, and can force a
summoner to spend a great deal of their time trying to control
their team. Since stances are just that, a stance, they are
active until canceled. Initiating a stance at the start of combat,
even before you summon a creature, can grant you much
needed time later in the combat when more of your summons
come into play. This is especially important with the Foul
Replacement power, where the summoned creature acts
immediately. If you have no active stance, the Foulspawn
Mangler does nothing until its next turn, even though it could
have.
Self-summoning: if you really need to get a summon on the
battlefield against a challenging foe, or when using a daily
power, it can be beneficial to target yourself, an ally, or another
summon, intentionally allowing the power to hit. Various
powers, such as False Life and Siphon Pain, can make this a
viable tactic so that you don't damage yourself too much. One
of the major benefits of this is that you don't have to worry
about your summon getting picked off before it can act,
especially if its a minion The downside is that if you lose
control of the summon it's standing right next to you.
Out of Control: The obvious penalty to an out of control
summon is that it'll probably try to kill you. The less-than-
obvious problem is that they still gain a bonus on attack rolls
equal to half your level, and a bonus to damage if you're of the
Shadow Sworn Covenant, making them far more powerful than
a normal creature of their kind. Regaining control or eliminating
them as a threat should become high priority.
Understanding Stances: stances can be difficult to understand
exactly how they work. Try to think of it as a psychic beacon
that pulses throughout your turn, sending mental signals to all
of your summons. If the stance is active, it pulses, regardless
of whether or not a creature is there to receive the command. If
you later summon a creature or change your stance in the
same turn (perhaps with an action point), at the end of your
next turn your summons follow the command that “pulsed” last
on your turn.
It is very important to note that all of your summons
follow exactly the same orders. They attack the same target,
move to the same place, follow the same person, etc. This
limitation is what makes powers such as In the Face of Doom
more powerful, as it makes your summons seek cover to the
best of their ability. That is to say, they can actively choose a
better place to hide if one chosen hiding place is already
occupied.
It is also important to note that while many stances
have a range of 20, some are 10 and a few are 30. This
numerical difference adds a strategic element to each stance,
for the closer you need to be to your summons the closer you
need to be to the front lines on which they fight.
Appendix
A familiar is a tiny, shadowy creature given temporary life
through the power of the Shadowfell. Each familiar looks like
some kind of tiny ghostly animal, such as a cat or raven, though
all familiars use the statistics presented below.
As its master increases in power, so too does the familiar. If
the master's level is equal to or greater than the levels detailed
below, use the corresponding creature entry for that familiar.
Familiars cannot speak telepathically with all creatures, only
their master.
If a familiar dies the master becomes dazed (save ends).
Familiar Level 1 Minion
Tiny shadow animate
Initiative +2; Senses Perception +1
HP 1; a missed attack never damages a minion.
AC 12; Fortitude 10, Reflex, 12, Will 11
Speed fly (hover) 6
Self Destruct (standard; at-will)
The familiar lunges forward and detonates on impact. +0
vs. Reflex; 1d6 psychic damage, and the familiar dies.
Soul Mate
Two Hearts: While within 1 square of its master both the
familiar and its master gain the benefits of the Alertness
feat (not included above).
One Soul: The familiar gains a power bonus to its attack
and damage rolls, as well as its defenses, equal to its
master's Charisma bonus. While within 1 square of the
familiar the master gains a +1 power bonus to all defenses.
Alignment any Language telepathy 10
Skills Stealth +11 (+4 racial bonus)
Str 3 (-4) Dex 15 (+2) Wis 12 (+1)
Con 10 (+0) Int 6 (-2) Cha 7 (-2)
An ordinary familiar is nothing more than a wayward piece of
soul, closely tied to its master.
Familiar, Improved Level 6 Minion
Tiny shadow animate
Initiative +5; Senses Perception +4; low-light vision
HP 1; a missed attack never damages a minion.
AC 15; Fortitude 13, Reflex, 15, Will 14
Speed fly (hover) 8
Self Destruct (standard; at-will)
The familiar lunges forward and detonates on impact.
Master's Charisma vs. Reflex; 2d6 + master's charisma
modifier psychic damage, and the familiar dies.
Soul Mate
Two Hearts: While within 1 square of its master both the
familiar and its master gain the benefits of the Alertness
feat (not included above).
One Soul: The familiar gains a power bonus to its attack
and damage rolls, as well as its defenses, equal to its
master's Charisma bonus. While within 1 square of the
familiar the master gains a +1 power bonus to all defenses.
Alignment any Language telepathy 100
Skills Stealth +14 (+4 racial bonus)
Str 3 (-4) Dex 15 (+2) Wis 12 (+1)
Con 10 (+0) Int 9 (-1) Cha 7 (-2)
Improved Familiars have become infused with a larger portion
of the Shadowfell, making them slightly more powerful.
Familiar, Empowered Level 11 Minion
Tiny shadow animate
Initiative +7; Senses Perception +6; darkvision
HP 1; a missed attack never damages a minion.
AC 17; Fortitude 15, Reflex, 17, Will 16
Speed fly (hover) 10
Self Destruct (standard; at-will)
The familiar lunges forward and detonates on impact.
Master's Charisma vs. Reflex; 3d6 + master's charisma
modifier psychic damage, and the familiar dies.
Soul Mate
Two Hearts: While within 1 square of its master both the
familiar and its master gain the benefits of the Alertness
feat (not included above).
One Soul: The familiar gains a power bonus to its attack
and damage rolls, as well as its defenses, equal to its
master's Charisma bonus. While within 1 square of the
familiar the master gains a +1 power bonus to all defenses.
Summoner's Assistant
While within telepathy range, the familiar can act as a
mental relay for its master. If the master has an active
psychic stance, that stance also exists around the familiar
in a close burst with one quarter the normal range.
Alignment any Language telepathy 1 mile
Skills Stealth +16 (+4 racial bonus)
Str 3 (-4) Dex 15 (+2) Wis 12 (+1)
Con 10 (+0) Int 11 (+0) Cha 7 (-2)
Empowered Familiars have begun to take on the aspects of
their master, feeding off their life energy in a symbiotic two way
transfer.
Familiar, True Level 16 Minion
Tiny shadow animate
Initiative +10 Senses Perception +9; darkvision, blindsight 5
HP 1; a missed attack never damages a minion.
AC 20; Fortitude 18, Reflex, 20, Will 19
Speed fly (hover) 12
Self Destruct (standard; at-will)
The familiar lunges forward and detonates on impact.
Master's Charisma vs. Reflex; 4d6 + master's charisma
modifier psychic damage, and the familiar dies.
Soul Mate
Two Hearts: While within 1 square of its master both the
familiar and its master gain the benefits of the Alertness
feat (not included above).
One Soul: The familiar gains a power bonus to its attack
and damage rolls, as well as its defenses, equal to its
master's Charisma bonus. While within 1 square of the
familiar the master gains a +1 power bonus to all defenses.
Summoner's Assistant
While within telepathy range, the familiar can act as a
mental relay for its master. If the master has an active
psychic stance, that stance also exists around the familiar
in a close burst with one quarter the normal range.
Alignment any Language telepathy 10 miles
Skills Stealth +19 (+4 racial bonus)
Str 3 (-4) Dex 15 (+2) Wis 12 (+1)
Con 10 (+0) Int 14 (+2) Cha 7 (-2)
True Familiars are nearly living beings in their own right, so
attuned with the animating powers of the planes that they can
pinpoint nearby creatures with ease, visible or not.
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