Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-63.153.23.3-20130729052232/@comment-5264386-20130922004857

I agree with you that summoning friendly phantoms whilst 'undead' would make things much too easy, however, I'm just saying that the devs have changed how the covenants work, meaning that, until they tell us more, there's a possibility that a particular covenant may allow you to summon a phantom whilst up 'undead'. I certainly hope this isn't the case, but it's still a possibility we may have to face.