This spell summons an extraplanar creature (typically an outsider, elemental, or magical beast native to another plane). It appears where you designate and acts immediately, on your turn. It attacks your opponents to the best of its ability. If you can communicate with the creature, you can direct it not to attack, to attack particular enemies, or to perform other actions. The spell conjures one of the creatures from the 1st Level list on the tables below. You choose which kind of creature to summon, and you can choose a different one each time you cast the spell.
A summoned monster cannot summon or otherwise conjure another creature, nor can it use any teleportation or planar travel abilities. Creatures cannot be summoned into an environment that cannot support them. Creatures summoned using this spell cannot use spells or spell-like abilities that duplicate spells with expensive material components (such as wish).
When you use a summoning spell to summon a creature with an alignment or elemental subtype, it is a spell of that type. Creatures on the tables below marked with an "" are summoned with the celestial template, if you are good, and the fiendish template, if you are evil. If you are neutral, you may choose which template to apply to the creature. Creatures marked with an "" always have an alignment that matches yours, regardless of their usual alignment. Summoning these creatures makes the summoning spell's type match your alignment.
1st Level | Subtype :--|:--: Dire rat | Dog | Dolphin | Eagle | Fire beetle | Frog, poison | Pony (horse) | Viper (snake) | 2nd Level | Subtype :--|:--: Ant, giant (worker) | Elemental (Small) |Elemental Giant centipede | Giant frog | Giant spider | Goblin dog | Horse | Hyena | Lemure (devil) | Evil, Lawful Octopus | Squid | Wolf | 3rd Level | Subtype :--|:--: Ant, giant (soldier) | Ape | Aurochs (herd animal) | Boar | Cheetah | Constrictor snake | Crocodile | Dire bat | Dretch (demon) | Chaotic, Evil Electric eel | Lantern archon |Good, Lawful Leopard (cat) | Monitor lizard | Shark | Wolverine | 4th Level | Subtype :--|:--: Ant, giant (drone) | Bison (herd animal) | Deinonychus (dinosaur) | Dire ape | Dire boar | Dire wolf | Elemental (Medium) | Elemental Giant scorpion | Giant wasp | Grizzly bear | Hell hound | Evil, Lawful Hound archon | Good, Lawful Lion | Mephit (any) | Elemental Pteranodon (dinosaur) | Rhinoceros | 5th Level | Subtype :--|:--: Ankylosaurus (dinosaur) | Babau (demon) | Chaotic, Evil Bearded devil | Evil, Lawful Bralani azata | Chaotic, Good Dire lion | Elemental (Large) | Elemental Giant moray eel | Kyton | Evil, Lawful Orca (dolphin) | Salamander | Evil Woolly rhinoceros | Xill | Evil, Lawful
6th Level | Subtype :--|:--: Dire bear | Dire tiger | Elasmosaurus (dinosaur) | Elemental (Huge) |Elemental Elephant | Erinyes (devil) | Evil, Lawful Giant octopus | Invisible stalker | Air Lillend azata | Chaotic, Good Shadow demon |Chaotic, Evil Succubus (demon) | Chaotic, Evil Triceratops (dinosaur) | 7th Level | Subtype :--|:--: Bebilith | Chaotic, Evil Bone devil | Evil, Lawful Brachiosaurus (dinosaur) | Dire crocodile | Dire shark | Elemental (greater) | Elemental Giant squid | Mastodon (elephant) | Roc | Tyrannosaurus (dinosaur)* | Vrock (demon) | Chaotic, Evil
8th Level | Subtype :--|:--: Barbed devil | Evil, Lawful Elemental (elder) | Elemental Hezrou (demon) | Chaotic, Evil
9th Level | Subtype :--|:--: Astral Deva (angel) | Good Ghaele azata | Chaotic, Good Glabrezu (demon) | Chaotic, Evil Ice devil | Evil, Lawful Nalfeshnee (demon) | Chaotic, Evil Trumpet archon | Good, Lawful