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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 5021437" data-attributes="member: 72317">To be honest, I know nothing of eastern or western fighting styles (barring what I have seen from comics/anime/wuxia flicks - which I profess to being a fan of). Nor do I attempt to make this distinction in my games whatsoever. All I know is that tome of battle helped made melee fun again by allowing my warblade options beyond what a fighter was normally capable of. Is the ability to say, deal double, quadruple or +100 damage as a standard action that big of a deal that it cannot be seen as being anything else other than anime/wuxia'ish? It shouldn't be that difficult to reflavour it as simply being an equivalent/variant of the full-attack routine a fighter typically takes. Consequences like dr applying just once or only 1 attack roll being made are really metagame concepts which can be glossed over. Or say charging minotaur. What difference is it from a fighter making a bull-rush, fluff-wise?A warblade simply moves and attacks as a standard action. A fighter also moves and attacks. I am really failing to see the distinction between the two. There used to be a thread on gleemax explaining how ToB could be used to simulate mundane fighting styles (like staff-fighting/greatsword etc) but regrettably, it was pruned some time ago.</blockquote>