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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlin the Tuna" data-source="post: 3935848" data-attributes="member: 55638">Gah.  That'd make character builds ridiculous, and I'm even one of the folks that lays out where he's going impossibly far ahead.  Beyond that, it'd make building PCs above 1st level that much more wonky -- they already get more flexibility with items (as their wealth is spent in one go rather than increasing in small increments over time) and now they'd be able to say "Oh yeah, I got Robilar's Gambit at 1st level, Improved Crit at 3rd, and Epic Combat Reflexes at 6th.  I really came into my own last level.  You just missed it."And on the subject of Adaptive Style... it does refresh your maneuvers, and thus it is basically the Swordsage Tax.  A lot of folks take it because the Swordsage's default recovery mechanism is awful, not because grabbing Adaptive Style makes them sexy shoeless gods of war.  The out-of-book help support from WotC is at times erratic, but they've been very uniform in saying this.[sblock=Main 3.5 FAQ, Page 35]If a character uses the Adaptive Style feat (Tome of Battle, page 28) after he has expended some of his readied maneuvers, does he choose new readied maneuvers equal to the maximum number he can ready, or equal to the number he hasn’t yet expended?Using the Adaptive Style feat completely resets the character’s readied maneuvers, making them all available for use. If you’re a crusader, you also reset your granted maneuvers.[/sblock][sblock=Customer Service]Q: The Adaptive Style feat in Tome of Battle allows you to change your readied maneuvers as a full round action rather than spending five minutes to do so. Does this...A) Allow a martial adept to regain and change all of their maneuvers with a single full round actionorB) Allow them to change the maneuver that is readied in their unexpended "slots".A: Adaptive Style will actually let you perform option A) from your list. So as a full round action, you can choose a new set of readied maneuvers, and in doing so, reset all of your maneuvers. I hope that clears things up. Have fun and good gaming!<a href="http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=683775" target="_blank">Link.</a>  Look under "Feats"; further links to multiple CustServ responses saying the same thing are included.[/sblock][sblock=Ask Wizards, 7/19/07]Q: Dear SageIf a character uses the Adaptive Style feat (Tome of Battle p28) after he has expended some of his readied maneuvers, does he choose new readied maneuvers equal to the maximum number he can ready, or equal to the number he hasn’t yet expended?--MattA: Using the Adaptive Style feat completely resets the character’s readied maneuvers, making them all available for use.If you’re a crusader, you also reset your granted maneuvers.<a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ask/20070719a" target="_blank">Link.</a>[/sblock]So yes, there are official answers on the subject, yes they're consistent, and from personal experience and a fair amount of board reading, it doesn't appear to be overpowered in practice.</blockquote>

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