Five of the Best: Summons

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I’m playing Thaumaturge at the moment, a new role-playing game about a magic user who has a strange relationship with spirits, which fight with them in battle, and it’s made me think about summons. That in turn made me think those hours I won’t get back from playing Xbox 360 RPG Blue Dragon many years ago – that was a slog, wasn’t it? Though, I don’t know if it’s the smoothing effect of time but my memories of it have turned worryingly fond. Help!

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