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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 4034294" data-attributes="member: 46713">Well, at least twice: the first time you're surprised by its ability, the second time you expect it and act accordingly.I immediately see two questions here:1) Is the old bugbear which doesn't have a cool move better in that regard? How many times can you fight a 3E standard bugbear before it gets old?2) How often do you expect to encounter a specific subtype of a monster in your adventuring career? In 3E you need an average of 260 encounters to reach level 20. How many of these will typically involve bugbears?The thing is: D&D has always had such an overabundance of creatures that you'll never have to encounter the same creature twice, unless your DM has a certain favorite or strives for a more 'realistic' environment by restricting himself to a certain subset of monsters he deemed appropriate for his setting.So, I don't think it will really matter if a single monster variant's special trick gets old.In the case of the bugbear strangler the main problem is that there doesn't seem to be any supernatural or magical effect involved in the maneuver, thus leading an observer to the conclusion that anyone should be able to learn the maneuver.If the maneuver had some obviously otherworldly quality to it noone would question its uniqueness and accept that only bugbear stranglers are able to do it.</blockquote>