Intimidate as a skill is exploiting your knowledge of people to get them to do what you want through the desire to avoid something distasteful, be it social shame or an axe to the face. It's the difference between a good Diplomacy check and Charm Person: the former gets the target to be more friendly due to good manners and people-skills, or it could refer to the hero's solid argumentation, or it could represent de-escalation strategies used to calm an angered ogre, or it could even be a form of seduction, whereas Charm Person is a form of magical mind control that overrides logic and makes people your friend Because You're A Wizard. Intimidation is a social skill, much like Diplomacy and Bluff, and relies a lot on the characters to give it context*, whereas Fear Attacks are things like spells and auras that directly and specifically cause fear. The answer is no, because a Fear Attack is rather explicitly a superpower (as stated above) and Intimidation is not. The real issue here is whether or not Intimidate, the skill, is a "Fear Attack." You Can Threaten a Vampire or a Lich in the Same Way You Can Parley With One
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