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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eldritch_Lord" data-source="post: 5553875" data-attributes="member: 52073">And when you say "is more anime for the most part" you actually mean to say "The swordsage, which is meant to be a replacement monk, has access to 2 mostly-supernatural disciplines out of its 6 available, and the crusader, which is meant to be a replacement paladin, has access to 1 somewhat-supernatural discipline out of its 3 available, and there are three PrCs (Bloodstorm Blade, Deepstone Sentinel, Shadow Sun Ninja) with some magical class abilities, and the rest of the book is (Ex) and mundane in flavor."There's nothing anime-like or video-game-like about having named maneuvers; all martial arts, Eastern and Western, name their moves.  The only reason the ToB maneuvers had flowery names (the "anime" part people object to) was that by the time it was published, everything was getting flowery names.  Remember, it's by the same company who gave us two entire frikkin' Monster Manuals of Deathdrinkers, Bluespawn Godslayers, Cyclonic Ravagers, Dark Talon Wasp Riders, and other [Adjective][Noun] [Noun][Verb]ers; compared to that, Punishing Stance and Mithral Tornado are positively tame. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>