[Aura Guardian]

Originally Posted by Fat Raikage

Black Tentacles is too strong. You can't always be flying. The tentacles have a CMB of +15. Four wizards from this war have a CMD of 16, 15, 14, and 13. All of them stand literally no chance at all vs Black Tentacles and get instantly grappled, at which point you cannot cast spells. Even if you have Still Spell Dimension Door prepared (yeah right), you have to make a concentration check.

Dimension Door is already a Still Spell (as is Teleport), though that is not very important. Concentration Check has DC 25 + spell level against Black Tentacles (CMB 15), so DC 29 Concentration to Dimension Door out. Assuming 18 INT, you get a +14 bonus (10 caster level, 4 INT modifier), meaning you'd have to roll a natural 15 to DDoor out (30% chance).

Countermeasures that do not include banning Black Tentacles are:
1) Combat Casting +4, Uncanny Concentration +2 (but those are feats, so I'm not sure how much we should spend on overcoming ONE spell), raising it to 50% or 60%, which is still too low
2) Give summoners a bonus to CMD, but you'd need something like a +10 to even drop the odds to 50%

So yeah, both options are bad ones. Agreeing with the removal of Black Tentacles from the game.

Originally Posted by Fat Raikage

Arcane Bond is too strong. It's not even a level 5 spell you prepared, which would always be strong simply because you only get like 3 level 5 spells, it's ANY level 5 spell. It's too much utility and it's a panic button that I don't want people to have to get out of bad situations. It would always force Dimensional Anchor, because you can always Arcane Bond a Teleport, whereas a prepared Teleport uses up one of your precious level 5 spells and reduces your in-battle capabilities. And if you do get anchored, you can just Arcane Bond a battle spell! High level spells are already barely acceptable as they are. Meanwhile, a feat like Lightning Reflexes gives you +2 on Ref saves. Not comparable.

Just declare the champions to be familiars. Arcane bond problem solved right there!