Questions tagged [tome-of-battle]
For questions about "Tome of Battle", an expansion book for D&D 3.5e which introduces the concept of martial maneuvers to give martial characters extra options in combat.
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If my Initiator Level is high enough, can I take Stances of a level higher than 1st when I take my first level in a martial adept class?
Usually, a martial adept’s Initiator Level is equal to his class level, plus his class level in any maneuver-granting Prestige Classes, plus half his level in all other classes.
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Can you trip as part of a Tome of Battle Maneuver?
If a ToB Maneuver such as Daunting Strike calls for a melee Attack as part of the maneuver, can this melee attack be resolved as a trip attack/include a trip attempt?
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Why is the Master of Nine a bad choice?
Say, what is the first thing that comes to mind when you talk about Tome of Battle? Most likely, the maneuvers - the thing that made the close-quarter combat fun for even those players who don't like ...
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Does Adaptive Style really let you recover expended maneuvers?
You can change your readied maneuvers at any time by taking a
full-round action. If you’re a crusader, your current granted
maneuvers are lost and you gain new granted maneuvers as if you had
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Can I use Moment of Perfect Mind in response to a surprise attack?
Say I want to use the Tome of Battle maneuver Moment of Perfect Mind, a maneuver that replaces my Will save with the equivalent Concentration Check.
Out of combat, my warblade and an enemy wizard ...
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Weapons for Maneuvers
So, each of the Nine Schools has got its own associated weapons, and some weapons are associated with several schools (like, Unarmed Attack for Tiger Claw, Shadow Hand and Stone Dragon). But are the ...
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How do Dvati work with Maneuvers?
So Dvati may be my new favorite race. One character with two bodies poses a number of interesting questions, and while the rules are pretty clear on how that works with spellcasting, nothing is said ...
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How does Firesnake work (RaW, RaI, or house rules) [closed]
Firesnake has a duration of instantaneous, but claims to be able to move 60 ft every round, and "A creature can only take damage from the firesnake once in a single round", both of which imply that ...
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Can I use Maneuvers out of combat?
Can you initiate a maneuver outside of combat? This is specifically about the Moment of Perfect Mind maneuver, which allows me to substitute my Will save for a concentration check. My GM feels that I ...
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Do the AC Bonus (Ex) class abilities of monks and swordsages stack?
Monk and Swordsage both get the class feature AC Bonus (Ex).
Monk:
When unarmored and unencumbered, the monk adds her Wisdom bonus
(if any) to her AC. In addition, a monk gains a +1 bonus to AC ...
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Cataphract—homebrew martial adept base class
This is a defensively-minded Tome of Battle martial adept. As with most of my work, I strive to make it stand-alone: ideally, this class should just work, as-is, without any meta commentary, and fit ...
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Maneuvers and Cleave
So, Maneuvers in Tome of Battle come in three shapes (strikes, boosts and counters), which make the martial characters extremely deadly, even through they are usually limited to 1 boosted attack per ...
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Do you lose flanking from Island of Blades stance if you're invisible?
If you are in Island of Blades stance do you and your allies lose your flanking bonus if you are invisible?
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Can Iron Heart Surge remove sleep, paralysis, or similar effects?
The description of Iron Heart Surge seems unclear to me. Normally, you must be able to move to initiate a maneuver. However, Iron Heart Surge seems very broad in what it affects. Can it also remove ...
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Can you initiate maneuvers with weapons other than those the discipline favors?
When playing a class from Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords can you initiate manuevers while not weilding a disciplines favored weapon? For example: could one use Desert Wind manuevers without ...
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Can you take more than one 5-foot-step using Combat reflexes, Evasive Reflexes and Robilar's Gambit together, or Shifting Defence by itself?
Can you using these three feats, take more then one five foot step per round?
From Robilar's Gambit:
In return, they provoke attacks of opportunity from you each time they swing
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Does thunderous throw permit iterative attacks with two-handed thrown weapons?
The Player's Handbook on Thrown Weapons says, "Throwing a light or one-handed weapon is a standard action, while throwing a two-handed weapon is a full-round action" (113). The prestige class ...
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What's my initiator level for maneuvers from Martial Study?
I'm building a Warblade/Master of Nine using the rules in Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords. To qualify for MoN, I'm using the Martial Study feat to take maneuvers from disciplines that a Warblade ...
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Is Stormguard Warrior really that good?
I have an idea of build centered around the Crusader class, with some possible dips in Warblade/Swordsage to take advantage of the goodies in other disciplines (such as Ironheart Surge or Time Stands ...
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Is the damage from Snap Kick fixed like, for example Insightful Strike or can you add any more bonuses to it?
Snap Kick states the following (emphasis mine):
When you make a melee attack with one or more melee weapons (including
a standard attack, full attack, or even a strike maneuver), you can
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Iron Maiden prestige class—Tome of Battle homebrew
See here for v2 of this class
I would like a review of this Tome of Battle-based prestige class I wrote. I decided to go ham on the write-up and do the full entry as Wizards themselves did (I even ...
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Melee touch attack with two weapons?
I have a Rogue/Swordsage that fights with 2 daggers and has Two Weapon Fighting (TWF).
I'm considering taking Fire Riposte (Tome of Battle, 53) which grants the ability to do an immediate melee touch ...
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Iron Maiden prestige class—Tome of Battle homebrew (v2)
Iron maiden v1
Not a lot to say, per se, up front, since the goal is for the class to read like you just came across it in Chapter 5 of Tome of Battle. See the preamble to v1 if you are unfamiliar ...
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Swordsages in mithral breastplate? [duplicate]
Swordsages are not proficient in medium armor.
Mithral breastplate is medium armor, but treated as light armor.
Are swordsages proficient in medium armor?
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Can stances be used with ranged weapons like a bow?
In my case I'm talking about Assassin's Stance, but I'd like to know the answer for stances in general. I feel like I might be missing something incredibly obvious caused by missing a word or two (or ...
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Does the feat Ironheart Aura benefit the feat's possessor?
The feat Ironheart Aura says
While you are in any Iron Heart stance, adjacent allies gain a +2 morale bonus on saving throws. (Tome of Battle 31)
The Player's Handbook in the Glossary defines ...
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Can I use a maneuver to meet the prerequisites for a martial stance, then swap out that maneuver later?
I'm a Warblade in the process of reaching level 6. I have one level 1 Diamond Mind maneuver. Is the following possible:
For my level six feat, I want to take Martial Stance to attain the Diamond Mind ...
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Does a lance deal double-damage for all attacks made when using the pouncing charge maneuver?
Pouncing Charge, From Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords, page 88:
As part of initiating this maneuver, you make a charge attack. Instead of making a single attack at the end of your charge, you ...
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Standard action maneuver AoO
Can you use a standard action maneuver, say mountain hammer, on an attack of opportunity?Could you channel a spell as a dusk blade on an attack of opportunity?
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