Book of Nine Swords -- okay?

[Henry]

Which, at most, can only be used once every other round... Plus it generally is not a good idea to get into melee with a Red Dragon (at least, not for an extended period of time).

Foe hammer from martial study feat, mountain hammer from stone dragon, and I'm thinking there's even another maneuver that beats DR that's low-level. That's three time in one combat right there, before you can take the recover action to do it once or twice more. Even without recovering the one gained from martial study, if a D&D combat goes on for 5 rounds or more, it's a rare occurance in my experience.

Besides, I'm just talking about the low-level stuff, for low-level dragons. If you're talking about the adults and Wyrms, there are other abilities that kick in that can help commensurately. Plus, most of the martial maneuvers being expressly hit and run actions, you're not in melee for long (especially easier if you aim for tumble ranks and the spring attack feat as you level up).

So these martial maneuvers are an impressive set of tools all by themselves!

 

[Nail]

Spring attack doesn't work with most maneuvers (strikes are Std Actions).

Sorry, Henry!

 

[FireLance]

Plus, most of the martial maneuvers being expressly hit and run actions, you're not in melee for long (especially easier if you aim for tumble ranks and the spring attack feat as you level up).

Yes and no. Strikes usually require standard actions, so they don't work with Spring Attack, which requires you to take the attack action. Boosts and stances should work with Spring Attack, though. Tumble would also work, although you are limited to moving away after an attack, hopefully avoiding a full attack.

 

[Shazman]

The fact that Tolkien's characters camp has very little to do with healing magic!

Tolkien's characters camp because .....<wait fer it!>.....it's the end of the day!

Exactly, they camped to get shut eye, not to break out the wand of cure light wounds and replenish spells and power points.

 

[RigaMortus2]

Foe hammer from martial study feat, mountain hammer from stone dragon, and I'm thinking there's even another maneuver that beats DR that's low-level. That's three time in one combat right there, before you can take the recover action to do it once or twice more. Even without recovering the one gained from martial study, if a D&D combat goes on for 5 rounds or more, it's a rare occurance in my experience.

If we are talking low-level, the Warblade only can ready a couple of maneuvers. So if he wants to stock up on multiple maneuvers that pretty much do the same thing, he will be lacking in other areas. True, they can always re-ready maneuvers outside of combat, but if they come into an encounter they weren't prepared for, you aren't guaranteed to have readied the best maneuvers for that situation (yes, you could have Adaptive Style, but that will burn a feat).

So I still see it coming back to PCs being balanced with having the right resources for an encounter.

 

[Nail]

Gandalf: "We should camp here, before we go into the Mines of Moria, as I'm nearly out of spells!"

Aragorn: "And I need to get rid of these silly Entangle spells and memorize something more useful for underground."

 

[Nail]

If we are talking low-level, the Warblade only can ready a couple of maneuvers.

..The word you're looking for there is either "few" or ""several". A WB 1 can have 3 manuevers readied. A WB 4 can have 4.

 

[Slaved]

..The word you're looking for there is either "few" or ""several". A WB 1 can have 3 manuevers readied. A WB 4 can have 4.

As this is not a formal setting using, "a couple of" is an acceptable version of plural. More formally it would not be correct but the american form of english has taken a couple of liberties with the language.

Oh, and having only three manuevers readied hurts!

 

[Nail]

4 equals "a couple of"? Huh.

I see a couple of Balors standing behind you.......

 

[Slaved]

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a couple of

adjective
more than one but indefinitely small in number; "a few roses"; "a couple of roses" [syn: a few]

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