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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 6989350" data-attributes="member: 6750306">Adding to the above, most unintelligent monsters tend to go chasing off after illusions of their favorite prey...An illusionist mage with a decent stealth skill can wreak havoc on intelligent monsters and guards' concentration by using the Minor Illusion cantrip to sneak close and then distract them by using it to create the sounds of things crashing through the bushes behind the guards, footsteps approaching from another direction, or the sound of a very large, very angry stinging insect flying very close to the back of their head that's always gone when they turn around to find it.Another classic that sometimes works to delay combat is asking a dumb humanoid or giant a clever riddle.</blockquote>