Dismissal

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Description
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The dismissal spell affects caster's summons. This is in direct contradiction to the spell's description.

Steps to reproduce
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Conjure a summon, cast dismissal.

Expected result
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All enemy summons in the area of effect are made to pass a will save or get unsummonned. Summon warding gets applied.

Actual result
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One random summon in the area of effect is forced to pass a will save or gets unsummonned. Summon warding gets applied.

Misc Notes
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"Random" instead of "Enemy"
"One" instead of "Each"

Which Server(s)?
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PGCC, Arelith Live Surface

[MissEvelyn]

Tested it myself just the other day and indeed, just 1 creature made the Will save, while the other ignored it. This was done on Distant Shores.

I personally think Dismissal is way too powerful and should actually be nerfed to only unsummon 1 creature OR have its +6 bonus to DC removed. It makes little sense that Dismissal is more effective than Banishment.

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Well, that's all fine and good. The point was mostly that the spell does actually something different than advertised.

Furthermore, the randomness of the effect really decreases its usefulness. You can literally target an enemy summon with it only to have your own pet dismissed instead even though you left it hanging in the back while exposing your pyjamma wearing spellcaster to the enemy summon's melee range (dismissal has very short range). To rub this in even further, summon warding is now in effect.

[MissEvelyn]

So one bug that seems to be tied to NWN (not Arelith) is that Dismissal actually triggers on your character rather than the target area.

Next time you test this, try standing in-between two summons and cast it on yourself to see if that helps. It may or may not force both those summons to make the Will save.