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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 3138408" data-attributes="member: 15538">The PCs meet an old swordsman, once a knight of the kingdom but he has not been seen in two decades. After slaying a dragon in single combat, he simply disappeared after delivering the dragon's head to his liege with the enigmatic phrase, &quot;Who knows when I will see your face showing such gratitude again?&quot; Now he has returned, dressed in tattered robes and carrying an ancient, mysterious weapon, and the kingdom is a very different place.The knight has actually gone off and multiclassed to Swordsage, and is now one of the highest level warriors on the continent (that could be level 12 or 25, depending on your campaign). He has decided he is ready to teach others what he has learned... any PC could be a student of his, as well as any former student turned villainous NPC.&nbsp; If you wanted to introduce the Master of Nine, he could well be the first or the most recent.Apart from that, just slip in a little Martial Training here and there when you make fighting NPCs, and let the PCs be the majority of the martial adepts. A gnoll barbarian with one or two maneuevers is still an interesting opponent for a martial adept, and does not stretch the picture in my mind of what a gnoll barbarian is. My suggestion would be for the various schools to be exactly that... schools. Some martial adepts might hide in exotic locales, but in general, the martial adepts the PCs encounter are simply exceptionally talanted individuals trained by other martial adepts. For instance, instead of an elf swashbuckler, they meet an elven warblade who wields a rapier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 3138408, member: 15538"] The PCs meet an old swordsman, once a knight of the kingdom but he has not been seen in two decades. After slaying a dragon in single combat, he simply disappeared after delivering the dragon's head to his liege with the enigmatic phrase, "Who knows when I will see your face showing such gratitude again?" Now he has returned, dressed in tattered robes and carrying an ancient, mysterious weapon, and the kingdom is a very different place. The knight has actually gone off and multiclassed to Swordsage, and is now one of the highest level warriors on the continent (that could be level 12 or 25, depending on your campaign). He has decided he is ready to teach others what he has learned... any PC could be a student of his, as well as any former student turned villainous NPC. If you wanted to introduce the Master of Nine, he could well be the first or the most recent. Apart from that, just slip in a little Martial Training here and there when you make fighting NPCs, and let the PCs be the majority of the martial adepts. A gnoll barbarian with one or two maneuevers is still an interesting opponent for a martial adept, and does not stretch the picture in my mind of what a gnoll barbarian is. My suggestion would be for the various schools to be exactly that... schools. Some martial adepts might hide in exotic locales, but in general, the martial adepts the PCs encounter are simply exceptionally talanted individuals trained by other martial adepts. For instance, instead of an elf swashbuckler, they meet an elven warblade who wields a rapier. [/QUOTE]

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