When casting summon monster spells, some spellcasters, instead of using the standard list of summonable creatures, summon shadow creatures (usually shadow versions of normal animals or magical beasts, or undead or outsiders native to the Shadow Realm).
| Summonable Creatures | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Creature | Type | Size | Hit Dice |
| 1st level | |||
| Badgers | animal | Small | 1 |
| Dire rats | animal | Small | 1 |
| Ghost scorpions | animal | Small | 2 |
| Giant banded centipedes | animal | Medium | 1 |
| Giant crab spiders | animal | Small | 2 |
| Monkeys | animal | Tiny | 1 |
| Owls | animal | Tiny | 1 |
| Viper (snake)s | animal | Tiny | 1 |
| 2nd level | |||
| Bull (cattle)s | animal | Large | 3 |
| Cave scorpions | animal | Medium | 3 |
| Giant bees | animal | Medium | 3 |
| Giant spitting spiders | animal | Medium | 3 |
| Hissing centipedes | animal | Large | 3 |
| Rattlesnakes | animal | Small | 2 |
| 3rd level | |||
| Dire apes | animal | Large | 4 |
| Dire bats | animal | Large | 4 |
| Giant badgers | animal | Medium | 3 |
| Tree snakes | animal | Medium | 3 |
| 4th level | |||
| Emperor scorpions | animal | Large | 5 |
| Giant wolf spiders | animal | Large | 5 |
| King cobra (snake)s | animal | Large | 5 |
| Whiptail centipedes | animal | Huge | 6 |
| 5th level | |||
| Girallon (ape)s | magical beast | Large | 7 |
| Griffons | magical beast | Large | 7 |
| Ogre spiders | animal | Huge | 8 |
| 6th level | |||
| Anaconda (snake)s | animal | Huge | 8 |
| Deadfall scorpions | animal | Huge | 9 |
| 7th level | |||
| 8th level | |||
| 9th level | |||
s Shadow creature.