Skill: Tumble makes sense for the Desert Wind school. Because many of the maneuvers work when you move, they can be good options for Scouts CAd.
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Some of the maneuvers expect you to move around, either by charging or tumbling, but many of them work best when you stand still and make a Full Attack to capitalize on the damage boosts. Martial Disciplines Desert Windĭesert Wind is all about dealing fire damage. If you like to switch stances often, it may be wise not to pick up a lot of Swift/Immediate Action maneuvers because you can’t use them in the same round. Remember that you can make a Full Attack and still use a Swift Action, so it is often a good idea to have several Swift Actions which you can use while swinging weapons around. You generally want to do as much as possible within the limited span of your turn, so it is often a good idea to have a mix of options which take up all of your actions. Switching stances also consumes a Swift action. Many other maneuvers are other type of actions, which can allow you to use multiple maneuvers in the same turn. The majority of Strike maneuvers are Standard actions. Using a Full-Round Action consumes both your Move and Standard Actions, but does not consume your Swift Action. You may take an Immediate action between turns, but you do not get a Swift Action on your following turn. Each turn includes a Standard, Move, and Swift Action. Understanding the action economy is a crucial part of capitalizing on combat maneuvers. Like maneuvers, high level stances require that you have one or more maneuvers from the same discipline, so you may need to take Martial Study more than once to gain access to a stance.Īdditional feats which are specific to a Discipline will be discussed below. Much like Martial Study, this allows Initiators to take stances from disciplines normally not available to them, offering lots of exciting new options. Martial Stance: Martial stances are fantastic, and many non-initiators can pick up one stance and spend the rest of their lives putting it to good use. Because you don’t get to retrain this maneuver, be sure to pick something which will remain useful for your whole career. Note that this feat does not require you to be of an appropriate Initiator level to take a maneuver, but higher level maneuvers usually require that you have one or more maneuvers from the same discipline, so you can’t pick up 9th-level maneuvers with your 1st-level Fighter. Initiators use their class’s normal recycle mechanic, so maneuvers gained from Martial Study work just like maneuvers gained as part of their class progression. Martial Study: An extremely versatile feat, Martial Study opens up maneuvers to non-initiators, and allows initiator classes to access maneuvers from disciplines to which they normally do not have access. However, don’t take this unless you’re an initiator class non-initiators won’t get enough benefit from Martial Study alone. If you’re particularly devoted to one discipline, this can be an excellent option. Featsīlade Meditation: Assuming that you’re using a favored weapon of your discipline, this amounts to +1 to damage, +2 to a skill, and +1 to the DC’s of your chosen discipline. I also omit the use of “Flaws” since they allow a massive increase in power with essentially no cost to the character. Those options also tend to be wildly unbalanced and rarely receive errata. I am of the opinion that those options are intended to be limited to campaigns run in those settings, and as such they don’t really apply to a generic campaign. It’s important to note that I generally omit campaign-setting specific content. Blue: Fantastic options, often essential.
Red: Bad, useless options, or options whichĪre extremely situational.For help identifying sourcebook abbreviations, see my Sourcebook Abbreviations Guide. Because so little of 3.5 is available on the SRD, I will attempt to tag items with a superscript indicating their book of origin. RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks, which tend to be more consistent than 3.5 handbooks. This guide is intended to be largely class-agnostic, especially because the Martial Stance and Martial Study feats allow non-initiator classes to take advantage of Martial Maneuvers. This guide is intended as a supplement to the contents of Tome of Battle, so be sure to read Chapter 3: Blade Magic before reading this guide. Tome of Battle introduced Martial Maneuvers, a new mechanic which works similar to spells, and introduced a whole new dynamic for martial combat.
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