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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashkelon" data-source="post: 6660605" data-attributes="member: 6774887">I would love for martial warriors to have interesting capabilities in combat, but I hate superiority dice. First off, as a short rest resource, it is far too easy to blow through all your maneuvers and be left with boring old basic attacks for much of the day. Second, the battlemaster has far too few dice, meaning only 8-10% of his attacks will get to benefit from the dice. Third, the effects of the dice are fairly minor (compare the maneuvers to level low spells or paladin smites, the spells produce way more interesting effects). Forth, I don't like how clunky the dice mechanic is. Requiring expenditure after a hit, then rolling a die for damage and forcing a saving throw takes a lot of extra time. Finally, I would prefer if maneuver usage was not necessarily tied to increased damage, but instead tied to greater utility and capability. Ideally, a full maneuver based class would be more dynamic in terms of maneuver usage. Perhaps they would have the ability to use a few maneuvers per encounter. Perhaps their maneuvers recharge mid battle. The maneuvers themselves would not increase damage, but would come with interesting affects. To speed up play, no save would be needed for a maneuvers effects to work (like repelling blast), as hitting the target should already cover the difficulty of execution. The effects produced by maneuvers would be more epic than the rather dull and basic effects of the battlemaster maneuvers.</blockquote>

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