![]() ![]() I suppose punishing stance might work.hrmm. This was originally straight bard, but I chose to lose a caster level (I know, I know) to up the melee survivability of the character with some more defensive abilities. I am the only person in the group using ToB and it's a low-op group, so I'm being very careful about my power level and deliberately making a few bad choices. Just some musings from an experienced Bardblade.Įxcellent points and I will take that into account. Each class is restricted in what stances and maneuvers it can choose based on what are called martial. As a 3rd level warblade, this means you can have four 1st-level maneuvers, one 2nd-level maneuver, and one 1st-level stance. If you are actually using Song of the White Raven to start IC as a swift action, then you are doing it wrong, since this conflicts with your ability to cast Inspirational Boost, one of the pillars of optimized IC. So to learn a 3rd level stance or maneuver, your initiator level needs to be (3 × 2) - 1 5. Evar.Īlso, Bard9? EYou'd be better off spending your first round of combat throwing up Inspire Courage and then going to town, rather than spending your first round on IC, and your 2nd on IG, and THEN getting into combat. You spend a full-round action to recover one maneuver. Warblades, with their d12s, but also access to many martial schools (and Iron. Not just a damage sink like the crusader, and not just another damage dealer like the swordsage, but a good, all around character. Sometimes, a party needs a front line fighter. When you use a maneuver, it's gone either until the combat ends or until you take a full round action to recover it. The Warblade, not as good at tanking as a crusader, but not as squishy as a swordsage. These are the maneuvers you have access to without 5 minutes of meditation or a feat. He likes the idea of going though shadows and come out of no were and attack some one. I'd go with the utility of Hunter's Sense, or the extra dakka that comes with Punishing Stance. You start combat with a number of maneuvers readied. My dad is wanting to play a warblade in our game but he also want to able to use the abilitys from the shadow hand. Since bonus dice never multiply, you'd be better off getting the static +X hit/+X dmg bonus from regular IC and then multiply it by 2 whenever possible. For example, a 5th-level warblade can select maneuvers of 3rd level or lower. Every four levels thereafter (at 9th, 13th, and 17th level), you choose another bonus feat from the list. You must meet the prerequisite for the feat you select. A fighter who uses his bonus feats to pick up maneuvers is generally going to be weaker than a warblade (in many ways, the warblade is intended to replace the fighter, which is considerably weaker than the other PHB classes unless built just right).Blood in the Water would better for a non-DFI Bardblade. Bonus Feat: At 5th level, you gain a bonus feat from the list given below. Generally speaking, if you want to use the maneuvers from Tome of Battle, you should make a character of one of the maneuver-using classes. Note that both Martial Study and Martial Stance can be selected with fighter bonus feats. You can also take Martial Stance, which lets you learn any stance you meet the requirements for there's no limit on how many times you can take it, but you won't meet the requirements for very many stances with just 3 maneuvers. In addition, these maneuvers will only have an initiator level of half your character level, and you'll have no way to recharge them during a fight. You can only take it three times, however, so without taking levels in swordsage, warblade, or crusader, you can only ever have 3 maneuvers known. Other classes can learn maneuvers by taking the Martial Study feat (ToB p31-32), which teaches you a new martial maneuver each time you take it. The crusader, warblade, and swordsage are also the only classes who gain a mechanic for recharging their maneuvers during a fight. The classes presented in Tome of Battle learn maneuvers automatically as they gain levels, but no other class does. No, but you have to learn maneuvers to be able to use them.
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