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Message: <blockquote data-quote="heretic888" data-source="post: 4190124" data-attributes="member: 60326">Hi Nifft,I guess not. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The sentence following that one states you cannot initiate a maneuver while recovering your expended maneuver. Last time I checked, strikes were maneuvers. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The wording is to clarify that you cannot initiate a strike or a counter while recovering your expended maneuver. As it only costs an immediate action, you could theoretically do either since a) most strikes are standard actions and b) there is a Diamond Mind stance which allows you to initiate one counter per round as a free action.Incidentally, the shinobi's adaptive stance class feature (gained at 8th and 16th level) allows him to adopt a stance from a chosen discipline once per round as a free action. So, he could theoretically change his stance while recovering an expended maneuver, as well.However, the current wording prevents any of these theoretical situations from happening. You cannot initiate a maneuver or change your stance while recovering the expended maneuver. In truthfulness, I simply copied that wording from the last sentence of the warblade's recovery method in Tome of Battle.The shinobi can't reliably spam the same maneuver two rounds in a row, either. The only way he could do so was if he could somehow repeatedly facilitate getting an AoO on a flat-footed, blinded, paralyzed, or stunned foe. Round after round. I don't think that is very probable or very reliable.Laterz. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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