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<blockquote data-quote="evermind" data-source="post: 3662084" data-attributes="member: 50013">As it is far too common, noone actually bothers to read the &quot;Book of Nine Swords&quot; in its entirety.&quot;Island of Blades&quot; is a stance of the &quot;Shadow Hand&quot; Style, which is only available to Swordsages. Crusaders = no go for this, sorry. Same goes for Warblades.Also, there _must_ be a second (allied) attacker in contact with the opponent to be flanked - and given the fact that almost any melee-rogue worth his salt has tumble maxed out, acquiring a flanking position is not all that difficult IF one has an ally already in contact with the same target....Hence no great benefit, unless you refuse to tumble.BUT if you take a level of Swordsage (say at any time past level 8 in any other combinations of classes) you could opt to take the &quot;Assassin Stance&quot;, which adds another +2D6 to any Sneak damage you are doing, because your effective level of Swordsage for picking maneuvres and stances would be 5+, hence a 3rd level Shadowsage Stance would be permissible.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="evermind, post: 3662084, member: 50013"] As it is far too common, noone actually bothers to read the "Book of Nine Swords" in its entirety. "Island of Blades" is a stance of the "Shadow Hand" Style, which is [I]only[/I] available to Swordsages. Crusaders = no go for this, sorry. Same goes for Warblades. Also, there _must_ be a second (allied) attacker in contact with the opponent to be flanked - and given the fact that almost any melee-rogue worth his salt has tumble maxed out, acquiring a flanking position is not all that difficult IF one has an ally already in contact with the same target.... Hence no great benefit, unless you refuse to tumble. BUT if you take a level of Swordsage (say at any time past level 8 in any other combinations of classes) you could opt to take the "Assassin Stance", which adds another +2D6 to any Sneak damage you are doing, because your effective level of Swordsage for picking maneuvres and stances would be 5+, hence a 3rd level Shadowsage Stance would be permissible..... [/QUOTE]

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