Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
The introduction of certain cantrips (essentials and post essentials) in effect allowed a Wizard to Dramatically toe step... trading out a resource that was previously a flavor element which could be leveraged with cleverness and DM buy in to accomplish interesting but not particularly potent things. I generally l do not like nerfing things, but if I feel a need I prefer doing so in ways that maintain flavor the following I extended the requirements built into the trigger conditions narrowing their context. To my thinking it is far far too easy to build an Arcana Skill monster and far far too likely a given skill may be used once per encounter for this to feel like anything but a straight up power grab for wizards. They may be a bit too practical.
(spook doesn't actually inhibit an intimidation monster build so perhaps I should reverse the context of saying you need to be outside of battle so as to surprise the subject or some such rational)
(spook doesn't actually inhibit an intimidation monster build so perhaps I should reverse the context of saying you need to be outside of battle so as to surprise the subject or some such rational)