Animal Summoning Themes

[Elfception]

I think it would be pretty flavorful to see animal summoning themes for druids to access, maybe druids only or such even.

Feline Summoning Theme:

-Summoning felines of the underdark and at higher levels felines of the surface, maybe starting with cave prowlers and going up from there, or cave prowler cubs, then cave prowlers next, and from there on stronger felines

Wolf/Hound Summoning Theme:

-Summoning the wolves and hounds of the underdark, maybe starting with deep hounds, then worgs or wolves, then stronger ones as the levels go

Bear Summoning Theme:

-Summoning bears of the underdark, perhaps starting with bear cubs, or normal bears and going up from there

Underwater Summoning Theme:

-Summoning of things like cave loaches, to pyrimo sharks, and spearfish, naturally a little stronger as it can only be used underwater

Beetle exclusive Summoning Theme:

-Summoning of the beetles of the underdark, maybe start with milk beetles, going up from different beetles like stag beetles, cave beetles, stink beetles, bombardier beetles

i know its a lot of work to integrate even a single summoning theme, so maybe even just one of these would be amazing, more options for druids would be a great thing when it comes to summoning. If wanted i can go into more detail into by level summons if its wanted at all, to make it easier for idea's, i've been thinking on these a lot

Felines:
1:Cave Prowler/Young Cave Prowler
2:Cave Prowler/Panther
3:Panther/Elder Cave Prowler
4:Malar Beast/Displacer Beast/Deep Lion
5:Malar Beast/Displacer Beast
6: Juvenile Saber Tiger (not ymphian!)/Displacer Beast/Malar Beast

(Displacer Beast Info: can definitely tone them down a bit as a 4th level summon https://www.dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Lesser...283.5e_Race%29 also though they are listed as lawful evil in many later edition sources, in older sources they were a nuetral creature, so i would stick with that)

Wolf/Hound:
1: Deep Hound
2:Worg
3: Dire Wolf/Black Wolf
4: Dire Wolf/Black Wolf
5:Worg Packleader
6: Dire Wolf Packleader

Bear:
1:Cave Bear Cub
2:Bear
3:Grizzly Bear
4:Juvenile Ursine
5:Cave Bear
6:Adult Ursine

(for clarification ursines are a bipedal bear race, with a bit more intelligence than a bear, not like were-bear or were-boar, but could definitely use the were-boar or were-bear model for them)

Underwater:
1:Cave Loach
2:Pyrimo Shark
3:Reef Shark/Deep Shark
4:Spearfish/Deep Shark
5:Spearfish/Grizzled Deep Shark
6:Great White Shark

Beetle:
1:Milk Beetle/Stink Beetle
2:Stink Beetle/Bombardier Beetle/Cave Beetle
3:Stag Beetle/Slicer Beetle/Bombardier Beetle
4:Stag Beetle/Bloated Dung Beetle/Slicer Beetle/Monstrous Cave Beetle
5:Bloated Dung Beetle/Rhinoceros Beetle (https://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Beetle_%28...noceros_Beetle maybe tone it up a bit)
6: Hoard Scarab Swarm (https://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Beetle_%28...d_Scarab_Swarm perfect i think, maybe add wounding to substitute for its grapple effect)

EXTRA: Lizard
1: Shocker Lizard (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/shockerLizard.htm maybe tone down the electrical damage)/Monitor Lizard (https://www.dnd-wiki.org/wiki/SRD:Monitor_Lizard)
2: Stone Lizard/Monitor Lizard (Higher HP variant)
3: Giant Lizard (http://www.aidedd.org/dnd/monstres.php?vo=giant-lizard definitely tone it up)
4: Riding Lizard (tone it up a bit, sort of like a deep lizard but weaker)
5: Deep Lizard
6: Elder Giant Lizard (a roided out version of the giant lizard)

EXTRA: Ley
1: Leystone
2: Living Stone
3: Giant Leystone
4: Leystone Elemental
5: Greater Leystone
6: Greater Leystone Elemental

EXTRA: Rot
1: Maggot Swarm (Weaker than its original naturally, and instead of infestation of maggots perhaps bleeding, or some other disease)
2: Rotting Vines (not like assassin vines, no paralysis)
3: Rotting Formian (Maybe like one of the stronger formian's)
4: Greater Rotting Vines (Assassin vine equivalent)
5: Shambling Mound (Without Drown)
6: Greater Shambling Mound (with drown)

Just some idea's, like i said take your pick of the ones you like and maybe think about them?

[Saturnalia]

I think an underwater theme would be a great addition. As far as summoning surface animals, I don't think a druid would be super happy about summoning endangered species as expendables. Surface animals best left for companions in my opinion.

[AllMYBudgies]

An underwater theme does sound really good.

[Ironside]

Some good ideas here

[Elfception]

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[Elfception]

A few more druidic themed summon theme ideas:

Vegapygmie

1: Vegapygmie
2: Vegapygmie Hunter
3: Vegapygmie Sporekeeper
4: Vegapygmie Chieftan (with maybe only 1 cast of evards instead of the standard type, or maybe even no casts of evards and instead souped up a little physically)
5: Vegapygmie Gray Queen (Maybe a little weaker than standard gray queens those suckers can be tough)
6: Vegapygmie Gray King (tough, naturally as a 6th level summon which few rarely get)

New Idea For Insects Summoning Theme: incorporate some of the cool thematic insects into the theme instead of just all being "insects"

1: Normal Insects Summon
2: Hellwasps Swarm
3: Huge Hellwasp Swarm
4: Deep Midge Swarm
5: Huge Deep Midge Swarm
6: Huge Maggot Swarm (with the infestation of maggots onhit)