A lightbulb from Summon Creature IV?!?!

[SuperMunch]

I'm writing this so that Chaotic-Good bards know what they're getting into...  

Freldo leveled and got the spell "Summon Creature IV" as his second 4th level spell.

I summon the creature and a floating light pops up - I thought it was a will-o-whisp or the like - but it was a lantern archon (or something like that with only 13 HP)

"Wow," I think, "Must be a lot better than the Summon Creature I spell that summoned a falcon and must have some great attacks".

Heh, I was wrong.

The light's a pretty bad excuse for a summon and I don't think it's not very worthy of a 4th level spell - it took a very long time to knock out a few skeletons and even still, I used my bard song on it.  Compared to the standard Summon Creature IV spell in NWN, which would have been a Dire Spider, I'd say the floating light bulb's a pretty bad trade.

Despite all this, I liked it!  It'll make a great faux familiar for Freldo (despite being useless in combat), a floating lightbulb that wants to rule the world, at least until he gets to change the spell slot for a more useful one.  

[Pankoki]

All summons have different uses. Some are better at attacking others are better at defending. We have distributed their uses depending on the level of mages/sorcerer/druid/cleric would be getting those summons, which I'm afraid is a lot earlier than bards.
  With that said however, the Lantern Archon that comes from the Good Aligned Summon IV has its uses. I am not going to disclose them here in the forums, all I advice is to take it along a ride an experience with it and you'll see in what departments its useful for. And there are, its one of the best summons one can get on Mistone, trust me.
  All I will say, is that, don't expect it to be as efficient as a summon that a mage of your level will be getting. Bards have a totally different role and their strengths lie elsewhere.

[SuperMunch]

That's good to know...  I'll run around with it to see what it can do.

Thanks for the reply Pankoki!

[lonnarin]

Unless you have a very silly god, I believe you can buy a brazier of faith from the temple and reallign any arcane caster's summons to match the cleric deity list...

[SuperMunch]

Oh!  that's what those are for?

I never knew.  Thanks!