Buy me a coffeeSummoner’s Tales
Ink & Quill
Author Thomas Knauss
Series Dragonwing Games/Bastion Press
Publisher DWBP
Publish date 2002
Written entirely in poetic verse, this eclectic band of fables and stories describes the adventures of nine different creatures. Although seemingly non-magical on the surface, the reader soon discovers that she may read only one tale at a time. After completing each story, the book reveals a command word to the reader, allowing her to summon its subject as if she cast summon monster. If she does not summon it immediately, the story remains fresh in the reader’s mind for twenty-four hours before fading from memory. Unlike the spell, the summoned monster remains until slain or the story vanishes from her memory, whichever comes first.
Summoning the story’s protagonist or forgetting the story allows the reader to proceed to the next tale. The monster summoned and the length of each story appear below.
- Celestial Dog (animal)- four pages
- Celestial eagle (animal)- nine pages
- Celestial Black Bear (animal)- thirteen pages
- Celestial lion (animal)- eighteen pages
- Celestial Pegasus– twenty-two pages
- Celestial Unicorn – twenty-seven pages
- Celestial elephant– thirty-one pages
- Azata, Lillend– thirty-six pages
- Couatl– forty pages
The reader’s alignment does not influence the monster summoned.
Caster Level: 18th; Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, summon monster I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII and IX; Market Value: 20,250 gp; Weight: 6 lb.