I am wondering how Frightful Presence works in respect its wording "A that creature first enters the area..."
The full rule is:
Frightful Presence (aura, emotion, fear, mental) A creature that first enters the area must attempt a Will save. Regardless of the result of the saving throw, the creature is temporarily immune to this monster’s Frightful Presence for 1 minute.
So for example, if a dragon with Frightful Presence moved such that a creature is now in its Frightful Presence, would this ability trigger? Or would the creature in question have to move to the dragon to make it trigger?
Another example, imagine a summoned monster that has this ability and it appears within range of one or more creatures? Would that cause the ability to trigger?
It feels like the answer to both of these should be no, as the creature didn't actively cause the 'entering of the area'. But the wording is confusing enough to me that I wanted to post here.
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I don't think the intent was to take intent into account. It is never taken into account for all other emanations that I know of. They just most probably meant first getting into the area.
That is how I have always read that too. Intent is taken into account for the definition of 'Hostile Action', but not for being affected by an area effect.
So yeah, the Frightful Presence save is made immediately when the creature ends up inside the area - no matter how or why it ended up inside the area.