Formation¶

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Summoner Feature

Formation

Level 1

You've practiced a specific formation for your minions. Choose one of the following formations: horde, platoon, elite, or leader. You can change your formation along with your quick command (see Quick Command) by performing intense study as a respite activity. (Quick Build: Platoon Formation.)

Horde Formation

Level 1

Your maximum number of minions increases by 4 and you summon up to four of your signature minions at the start of each of your turns instead of three.

Platoon Formation

Level 1

Whenever one of your squads uses a damaging ability, choose one target of that ability to take additional damage equal to your Reason score.

Elite Formation

Level 1

Each of your minions have their Stamina increased by 3 and their stability increased by 1.

Leader Formation

Level 1

You aren't affected by excess damage after all minions in a squad are dead. If your minion is within your Summoner's Range when they take damage, you can choose to take damage in place of the minion.

Additionally, you can use light armor treasures and light weapon treasures while you don't have a kit.

Minions and Treasures

Treasures in Draw Steel are typically worded for you to use, which might create ambiguity for a summoner managing an army. You can use the following guidelines to ensure the treasures you come across in your adventures do what they were intended to do.

Treasures that give you a damage bonus to rolled damage only apply to power rolls made from a non-minion's space. However, when you use Strike for Me, any bonus damage is applied to each enemy and object that took damage.
Once you reach level 4 as a summoner, you regain access to your normal free strike abilities while wielding a weapon treasure, an implement treasure, or any treasure that enables you to make a free strike as a part of its effect.
Treasures that increase the distance of ranged magic abilities also increase the distance of your Summoner's Range.

Source: The Summoner · printing 1.0