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<blockquote data-quote="comrade raoul" data-source="post: 109674" data-attributes="member: 554">It seems to me that the only resemblance between our prestige classes is their relation to the weapon master and their use of an ability called &quot;Battle Meditation&quot; that, among other things, maximizes rolled damage.I don't see any other common elements, and I certainly think the tone is different in both cases -- you seem to go for a very specific effect, while I simply wanted another generic version. Your &quot;mystic blade&quot; aims much more to dominate on a spiritual or psychological level. My &quot;weapon master&quot; is simply another attempt to develop a lightly-armored, offensively skillful master of a weapon. The contemplative aspect is there, but articulated in a much more general way than yours. That we both designed contemplative masters of a single weapon is hardly surprising or significant -- there were dozens of different versions of that sort of prestige class available on the web long before either of us posted ours.As for the name of the ability, I had posted a prior version of this prestige class on the old EN boards -- also with an ability entitled &quot;Battle Meditation,&quot; that could be used once per day per two levels (as is present here). It was much more powerful in its original form, and I used the &quot;maximize damage for one round&quot; as a weaker alternative and as a means to increase the similarity of my variant with the original.That we have designed two prestige classes that share an ability with a (mostly) similar name and a (partly) similar effect (but that differ in nearly all other respects) strikes me as a rather a novel coincidence but hardly implausible, considering the frequency to which classes like the ones we designed are attempted. I do apologize for your frustration, but please note that any similarities are unintentional, and that your anger is misapplied.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="comrade raoul, post: 109674, member: 554"] It seems to me that the only resemblance between our prestige classes is their relation to the weapon master and their use of an ability called "Battle Meditation" that, among other things, maximizes rolled damage. I don't see any other common elements, and I certainly think the tone is different in both cases -- you seem to go for a very specific effect, while I simply wanted another generic version. Your "mystic blade" aims much more to dominate on a spiritual or psychological level. My "weapon master" is simply another attempt to develop a lightly-armored, offensively skillful master of a weapon. The contemplative aspect is there, but articulated in a much more general way than yours. That we both designed contemplative masters of a single weapon is hardly surprising or significant -- there were dozens of different versions of that sort of prestige class available on the web long before either of us posted ours. As for the name of the ability, I had posted a prior version of this prestige class on the old EN boards -- also with an ability entitled "Battle Meditation," that could be used once per day per two levels (as is present here). It was much more powerful in its original form, and I used the "maximize damage for one round" as a weaker alternative and as a means to increase the similarity of my variant with the original. That we have designed two prestige classes that share an ability with a (mostly) similar name and a (partly) similar effect (but that differ in nearly all other respects) strikes me as a rather a novel coincidence but hardly implausible, considering the frequency to which classes like the ones we designed are attempted. I do apologize for your frustration, but please note that any similarities are unintentional, and that your anger is misapplied. [/QUOTE]

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