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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3860973" data-attributes="member: 158">Actually, a lot of people think &quot;powers&quot; and they think of Swordsages running fire trails, or hitting their enemies and the enemies exploding in flames, or of a warrior pulling a shadow teleport or shadow garrotte effect out of nothing. It can be &quot;powers&quot; without looking magical.The Foe Hammer effect can be a good example. Once per minute or so, a fighter can find the perfect opening in a combat to launch an EXACT attack that hits a creature in a weak point in its defenses -- one which ignores any damage reductions it has. He can't do it all the time because the opportunity doesn't present itself.He can bolster his allies' will saves by his voice, and his reassurance, just by being there, yelling a battle cry.He can use a special martial throw to dislodge his opponents' footing, or throw them off a cliff. None of these are magical, nor need to be described as such. They're all things that you could argue could be even done in the real world. Aragorn, Roland, and King Arthur could have done any and all of these things (even the martial throw, because contrary to popular belief even Western martial arts wasn't just two people slugging it out with swords till one dropped - there are plenty of feints, off-balance maneuvers, etc. in honest-to-God-anything-goes combat.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 3860973, member: 158"] Actually, a lot of people think "powers" and they think of Swordsages running fire trails, or hitting their enemies and the enemies exploding in flames, or of a warrior pulling a shadow teleport or shadow garrotte effect out of nothing. It can be "powers" without looking magical. The Foe Hammer effect can be a good example. Once per minute or so, a fighter can find the perfect opening in a combat to launch an EXACT attack that hits a creature in a weak point in its defenses -- one which ignores any damage reductions it has. He can't do it all the time because the opportunity doesn't present itself. He can bolster his allies' will saves by his voice, and his reassurance, just by being there, yelling a battle cry. He can use a special martial throw to dislodge his opponents' footing, or throw them off a cliff. None of these are magical, nor need to be described as such. They're all things that you could argue could be even done in the real world. Aragorn, Roland, and King Arthur could have done any and all of these things (even the martial throw, because contrary to popular belief even Western martial arts wasn't just two people slugging it out with swords till one dropped - there are plenty of feints, off-balance maneuvers, etc. in honest-to-God-anything-goes combat.) [/QUOTE]

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