"Planar Binding" as a "good" spell? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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isaac anthony

09-06-06, 11:37 PM
I'm reading planar binding, and I'm not surprised that summoning an evil creature is an evil spell, but I never thought of binding a creature as a good act.

Let's say I try to bind a Eladrin to act as my bodyguard for a year. All he has to do is fail a CHR check and I'm good to go? I play a chaotic-good elf, and pretty much only fight evil stuff so he wouldn't have any moral conundrums...

opinions?

thanks!
runestar

09-07-06, 12:25 AM
It's not considered a "good act" in the layman sense. It is merely treated as a "good" spell for purposes of effects that interact with it.

So long as what the eladrin has to do is good in nature, I doubt he will have any complaints though.:)
Archtyrant Terevoth

09-07-06, 05:45 AM
Let's say I try to bind a Eladrin to act as my bodyguard for a year. All he has to do is fail a CHR check and I'm good to go? I play a chaotic-good elf, and pretty much only fight evil stuff so he wouldn't have any moral conundrums...

opinions?


Well, the spell states that unreasonable agreements are automatically rejected, so it isn't a simple "fail a cha check and he's my slave for as long as I want."