Dance Macabre

Dance Macabre I

School conjuration (summoning); Level death mage 1

CASTING

Casting Time 1 round
Components V, S, DF

EFFECT

Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Effect one summoned creature
Duration 1 round/level (D)
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no

DESCRIPTION

This spell summons to your side a natural creature (typically an animal, magical beast, or a giant). The summoned ally 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 as you command.

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 that have expensive material components (such as wish).

The spell conjures one of the creatures from the 1st Level list on Table: Dance Macabre. You choose which kind of creature to summon, and you can change that choice each time you cast the spell. All the creatures on the table are neutral unless otherwise noted.

When you use a summoning spell to summon a creature with an alignment or elemental subtype, it is a spell of that type. All creatures summoned are of the unbreathing subtype. An animal summoned with this spell is treated as a magical beast, though no changes to its statistics are made other than those specific by the unbreathing subtype. All creatures summoned with this spell without alignment subtypes have an alignment that matches yours, regardless of their usual alignment. Summoning these creatures makes the summoning spell’s type match your alignment.

Dance Macabre II

School conjuration (summoning); Level death mage 2

This spell functions as dance macabre I, except that you summon one 2nd-level creature or 1d3 1st-level creatures of the same kind.

Dance Macabre III

School conjuration (summoning); Level death mage 3

This spell functions like dance macabre I, except that you can summon one 3rd-level creature, 1d3 2nd-level creatures of the same kind, or 1d4+1 1st-level creatures of the same kind.

Dance Macabre IV

School conjuration (summoning); Level death mage 4

This spell functions like dance macabre I, except that you can summon one 4th-level creature, 1d3 3rd-level creatures of the same kind, or 1d4+1 lower-level creatures of the same kind.

Dance Macabre V

School conjuration (summoning); Level death mage 5

This spell functions like dance macabre I, except that you can summon one 5th-level creature, 1d3 4th-level creatures of the same kind, or 1d4+1 lower-level creatures of the same kind.

Dance Macabre VI

School conjuration (summoning); Level death mage 6

This spell functions like dance macabre I, except that you can summon one 6th-level creature, 1d3 5th-level creatures of the same kind, or 1d4+1 lower-level creatures of the same kind.

Dance Macabre VII

School conjuration (summoning) Level death mage 7

This spell functions like dance macabre I, except that you can summon one 7th-level creature, 1d3 6th-level creatures of the same kind, or 1d4+1 lower-level creatures of the same kind.

Dance Macabre VIII

School conjuration (summoning); Level death mage 8

This spell functions like dance macabre I, except that you can summon one 8th-level creature, 1d3 7th-level creatures of the same kind, or 1d4+1 lower-level creatures of the same kind.

Dance Macabre IX

School conjuration (summoning); Level death mage 9

This spell functions like dance macabre I, except that you can summon one 9th-level creature, 1d3 8th-level creatures of the same kind, or 1d4+1 lower-level creatures of the same kind.

Table: Dance Macabre

1st Level	Subtype
Dire rat	Unbreathing
Dog	Unbreathing
Dolphin	Unbreathing
Eagle	Unbreathing
Giant centipede	Unbreathing
Fire beetle	Unbreathing
Poisonous frog	Unbreathing
Pony (horse)	Unbreathing
Stirge	Unbreathing
Viper (snake)	Unbreathing
2nd Level	Subtype
Ant, giant (worker)	Unbreathing
Giant frog	Unbreathing
Giant spider	Unbreathing
Goblin dog	Unbreathing
Horse	Unbreathing
Hyena	Unbreathing
Octopus	Unbreathing
Squid	Unbreathing
Wolf	Unbreathing
3rd Level	Subtype
Ant, giant (soldier)	Unbreathing
Ape	Unbreathing
Aurochs (herd animal)	Unbreathing
Boar	Unbreathing
Cheetah	Unbreathing
Constrictor snake	Unbreathing
Crocodile	Unbreathing
Dire bat	Unbreathing
Electric eel	Unbreathing
Giant Crab	Unbreathing
Leopard (cat)	Unbreathing
Monitor lizard	Unbreathing
Shark	Unbreathing
Wolverine	Unbreathing
4th Level	Subtype
Ant, giant (drone)	Unbreathing
Bison (herd animal)	Unbreathing
Deinonychus (dinosaur)	Unbreathing
Dire ape	Unbreathing
Dire boar	Unbreathing
Dire wolf	Unbreathing
Giant scorpion	Unbreathing
Giant stag beetle	Unbreathing
Giant wasp	Unbreathing
Griffon	Unbreathing
Grizzly bear	Unbreathing
Lion	Unbreathing
Owlbear	Unbreathing
Pteranodon (dinosaur)	Unbreathing
Rhinoceros	Unbreathing
Tiger	Unbreathing
5th Level	Subtype
Ankylosaurus (dinosaur)	Unbreathing
Cyclops	Unbreathing
Dire lion	Unbreathing
Ettin	Unbreathing
Giant moray eel	Unbreathing
Girallon	Unbreathing
Orca (dolphin)	Unbreathing
Manticore	Unbreathing
Woolly rhinoceros	Unbreathing
6th Level	Subtype
Bulette	Unbreathing
Dire bear	Unbreathing
Dire tiger	Unbreathing
Elasmosaurus (dinosaur)	Unbreathing
Elephant	Unbreathing
Giant octopus	Unbreathing
Hill giant	Unbreathing
Stegosaurus (dinosaur)	Unbreathing
Stone giant	Earth, Unbreathing
Triceratops (dinosaur)	Unbreathing
7th Level	Subtype
Brachiosaurus (dinosaur)	Unbreathing
Dire crocodile	Unbreathing
Dire shark	Unbreathing
Fire giant	Unbreathing
Frost giant	Cold, Unbreathing
Giant squid	Unbreathing
Mastodon (elephant)	Unbreathing
Roc	Unbreathing
Tyrannosaurus (dinosaur)	Unbreathing
8th Level	Subtype
Cloud giant	Air, Unbreathing
Purple worm	Unbreathing
9th Level	Subtype
Storm giant	Unbreathing