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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8241609" data-attributes="member: 5889">My quick and dirty "feel" for each school as I read through the manuevers:Adamant Mountain: Fun school that seems penalized by expensive maneuvers. Your doing big things, but your going to be doing fewer things than other schools.Biting Zephyr: Its alright, a little clunky but it does the job.Mirror's Glint: One of my favorites, I really feel the counterattack and "use the opponent's strength against them", a lot of fun things here. I'll just note I think Mirror Shard Puzzle should be a stance.Mist and Shade: Also known as "how many ways do I need to get a pickpocket check in?" It does feel a little repetitive, I think its a school that definitely rewards creativity, you have to really use your skills or this one will feel lackluster.Rapid Current: Probably my favorite all around school. You move fast, attack fast, heck you can basically guarantee you go first in a combat, there's just good stuff all around here.Razor's Edge: For crit fishers, you have found your home. Some of the maneuvers here seem repetitive off of Mirror's Glint and Rapid Current. I feel like this is a school I would pull a few maneuvers from, but it wouldn't ever be my primary.Sanguine Knot: I like that its often the "help my ally...AND myself", that way I can be helpful and greedy at the same time. And any school that lets me throw the halfling around like a bowling ball gets bonus points. Also as a weird side effect of many of the manuevers, I would argue that Sanguine Knot is probably the best "reach weapon school" there is, as so many of the effects work off of "allies within your reach".Spirited Steed: I haven't played a mounted rider in 5e so hard for me to say on this one.Tempered Iron: This honestly feels like two completely different schools. You have the "fearsome juggernaut" and then you have the "anti-magic warrior". The maneuvers are cool enough, so its not necessarily an issue but its quite noticeable. Its another school I wouldn't take as primary but might take 1-2 maneuvers along the way.I also feel that the designers have casters casting in melee a lot more than my table does.Tooth and Claw: Its a fun grab bag of movement and animal type maneuvers, it does the job.Unending Wheel: Flavorwise, feels like the "Samurai School". I want to like it, as I like a lot of the maneuver concepts, but it just seems a little bit off. I think Razor's edge does a lot of what this school does but better.</blockquote>

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