Quote Originally Posted by Lamech View Post
Its intention is to give the DM a cool way to make unique kobolds. Its similar to protean scourge, or shadow. The DM was supposed to retain control of it and not be a jerk about it. Like protean scourge the DM was not supposed to have it come pre-split and kill everyone with a maximized fireball swarm from 800 ft away; shadows should not be unleashed on a town and end with the annilation of everything. There are quite a few other monster ablities like that. PC's are not supposed to have them; DM's are not supposed to abuse them.
If that's the case then why are there so many ways for players to get control of monsters? It's incredibly easy to get a Shadow under your control, and you can turn into a Sarrukh core-only by level 17, SRD getting you 13.