Monster Summoning

Monster Summoning is the name of an archetypal Wizard conjuration spell that can, as its name suggests, be used to summon a variety of random monsters. This spell is broken into multiple sub-spells, differentiated by numerical value; the higher the sub-spell's numerical value, the more powerful the creatures that it can summon.

In the tabletop game, Monster Summoning could reach as high as Monster Summoning VII (7); this is because Monster Summoning I is a 3rd level spell, and there are only 9 levels of wizard spells. However, in the Baldur's Gate games, only the first three Monster Summoning sub-spells - Monster Summoning I, Monster Summoning II and Monster Summoning III - can be learned.

In 3rd edition, the spell family was renamed Summon Monster and was altered into a set of nine spells, one for each spell level from 1st to 9th.