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 |
| Dusk beast? | outsider | Medium | 4 |
| Elemental, shadow (Small)? | elemental | Small | 2 |
| Giant badgers | animal | Medium | 3 |
| Tree snakes | animal | Medium | 3 |
| 4th level | |||
| Elemental, shadow (Medium)? | elemental | Medium | 4 |
| Emperor scorpions | animal | Large | 5 |
| Giant wolf spiders | animal | Large | 5 |
| King cobra (snake)s | animal | Large | 5 |
| Shadow mastiff? | magical beast | Medium | 5 |
| Shadow (undead)? | undead | Medium | 3 |
| Whiptail centipedes | animal | Huge | 6 |
| 5th level | |||
| Girallon (ape)s | magical beast | Large | 7 |
| Griffons | magical beast | Large | 7 |
| Ogre spiders | animal | Huge | 8 |
| Shadurakul, 2nd-level ranger? | outsider | Medium | 6 |
| Umbral displacer beast? | outsider | Large | 6 |
| Umbral manticore? | outsider | Large | 6 |
| 6th level | |||
| Anaconda (snake)s | animal | Huge | 8 |
| Deadfall scorpions | animal | Huge | 9 |
| Elemental, shadow (Large)? | elemental | Large | 6 |
| Ephemeral hangman? | aberration | Large | 7 |
| Shadurakul, 4th-level fighter? | outsider | Medium | 8 |
| 7th level | |||
| Ecalypse? | outsider | Large | 9 |
| Elemental, shadow (Huge)? | elemental | Huge | 8 |
| Khayal (genie)? | outsider | Medium | 8 |
| Umbral bulette? | outsider | Huge | 9 |
| Umbral chimera? | outsider | Large | 9 |
| 8th level | |||
| Elemental, shadow (greater)? | elemental | Huge | 10 |
| Shadow, greater (undead)? | undead | Medium | 9 |
| Shadurakul, 6th-level sorcerer? | outsider | Medium | 10 |
| Umbral sphinx? | outsider | Large | 9 |
| 9th level | |||
| Elemental, shadow (elder)? | elemental | Huge | 12 |
| Umbral hydra? | outsider | Huge | 12 |
| Khayal, noble (genie)? | outsider | Medium | 12 |
s Shadow creature.