Book of Iron Might

[Macbeth]

Wow. I think we should use this book. The Manuever system is great.

It's rare that I feel a book is good enough that I should be beg for it to be added to a campaign, but this book seems like a perfect fit for our group's needs.

Recently we've started describing our attacks in more detail. This has added a lot of flavor to the fighters in the group (mostly Li, Ayla and Tormal). I think the mauever system in the Book of Iron Might is a great way to add a nother layer to this: it allows you to design your own attacks. Maybe it's just cause I play one of the fighter characters, but I think this is great. It allows us fighter types to:

a) Do more then 'just' attack.

b)Create manuevers to fit our fighting styles

I know both Tormal and Li are placing a heavy emphasis on HOW they fight (wolf style for Tormal, and the Psychic Samurai style Li is developing), and I think this system is a great way to reflect that. Some people don't like to play combat characters because they're too boring, and I think the manuever system is a great way to fix that percieved problem.

And for those of you uninterested in buying another book, Don't worry. THe system is completely transparent, and as far as I can tell, gives no undue advantage to fighter-types, just more options.

I know it's not my place to say what is and isn't in the campaign, but I'd really like to see this book at least considered.

 

[BSF]

I've been chatting with Sage on the BoIM. I think we will give this some playtest action to see how well it works. We have plenty of Gnolls around right now, so we should be able to get a few attempts in.

Off the top of my head, I am going to say that PC's get a number of maneuvers = to their BAB. fighters will probably get some bonus maneuvers.

I will let Li test them first, since he is the only one I know of who has purchased the BoIM. He has been gracious enough to offer to draft a couple of other maneuvers if he has the time. We will test it a little bit and see if it brings something new to the game. If we like it, we can make it official. If not, then we at least gave it a try.

 

[BSF]

Just so you can see some of the examples of how the system works...

http://www.montecook.com/mpress_BOIM_preview.html

If we like the system, I probably won't allow all possible maneuvers to be available to everyone. You will need to devise a combat style if you want to use these.