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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3664273" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>Hmm, well certain things will be more or less powerful in certain campaigns, that's definitely true. </p><p></p><p>However, the "Big Enemy" fight and the "Big Enemy + mookish minions" fights seem fairly prevalent in many published adventures, and are at least a big enough portion of encounters to make this problematic. And the beauty for the player is that they don't have to use that strike if it doesn't apply for them that time. 1 readied manoeuvre is a loss, but it isn't such a big deal, plus your Warblade stunning one enemy of the opponent's group and hurting that enemy is usually a good enough deal to make it worth using (just maybe not spamming), unless the enemies are en masse.</p><p></p><p>Re Warmaster's: I think the critical thought with which I don't agree is that the armies of mooks are needed to break it. It's already a problem even if you can just bring over three or four good meleers (Athena help us all if even one of said meleers is a charge specialist!), hit, and stun, for free, though it is admittedly much worse if their attack bonus is boosted so high that they can power attack without fear and the little guys all get to hit. But if the enemy used up resources to convert a devastating mega-Warmaster's into a situation where only the best get to charge, stun, and subsequently attack, I'd still call that a huge win for the Warmaster's user.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 3664273, member: 29014"] Hmm, well certain things will be more or less powerful in certain campaigns, that's definitely true. However, the "Big Enemy" fight and the "Big Enemy + mookish minions" fights seem fairly prevalent in many published adventures, and are at least a big enough portion of encounters to make this problematic. And the beauty for the player is that they don't have to use that strike if it doesn't apply for them that time. 1 readied manoeuvre is a loss, but it isn't such a big deal, plus your Warblade stunning one enemy of the opponent's group and hurting that enemy is usually a good enough deal to make it worth using (just maybe not spamming), unless the enemies are en masse. Re Warmaster's: I think the critical thought with which I don't agree is that the armies of mooks are needed to break it. It's already a problem even if you can just bring over three or four good meleers (Athena help us all if even one of said meleers is a charge specialist!), hit, and stun, for free, though it is admittedly much worse if their attack bonus is boosted so high that they can power attack without fear and the little guys all get to hit. But if the enemy used up resources to convert a devastating mega-Warmaster's into a situation where only the best get to charge, stun, and subsequently attack, I'd still call that a huge win for the Warmaster's user. [/QUOTE]
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