The third edition tome of battle the book of nine swords was a testing ground for game mechanics for fourth edition. However, there is one thing that keeps bothering me. If you actually play the characters, you find they dont do any more damage than a flanking rogue or raging barbarian. Me and my brother both loved the book of nine swords from 3.
Nine euphemisms for my dick, the book of weeaboo fightan magic is the nickname given to the tome of battle. A master of martial maneuvers, the sword sage is a physical adept a blade wizard whose knowledge of the sublime way lets him unlock potent abilities, many of which are overtly supernatural or magical in nature. Blistering flourish strike burning blade boost distracting ember boost flames blessing stance wind stride boost devoted spirit. Warblade with eternal blade and bloodstorm blade subclasses.
Book of the nine swords is a trademark of wizards of the coast, inc. Eric pollack also provides a nice piece of cover art. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Once you know a maneuver, you must ready it before you can use it see. The book of nine swords introduces new rules for players who want interesting combat options for their characters. Theres every reason to see them as a potential nine character concepts, even if bo9s doesnt spin them that way. Each of the nine disciplines for tome of battles sublime way is composed of a number of specific stances and maneuversnamely, strikes, boosts, and counters. Sep 08, 2008 the book includes nine tactical feats, one for each school. Ultimately, many of the innovations from the book would be evolutionary dead ends, but i love the style of play it presented.
Maneuvers generally speaking are standard, minor swift, or interrupt actions. Im skipping a lot of this books content, but this is the only other part that seriously informs fighter class design. All maneuvers are divided up into one of nine disciplines, each of which has one associated key skill and some favored weapons which are important for some. The book of nine swords variant rules complete articles the book of nine swords before getting to the pricing guidelines for the individual classes contained within the tome of battle. In addition, this book presents three new standard classes that perform martial maneuvers, as well as new feats and prestige classes. The book of nine swords is a tremendously fun book in live play. The book of nine swords uses 4th editions timing system. Levistej the book of nine swords disciple of the devoted spirit those who follow the devoted spirit discipline seek to support an ideal by defending it, nurturing it, and destroying its enemies devoted knight, divine agent, instrument of vengeance, peerless fighting machine they are warriors dedicated to good, evil, law, chaos, or some. The book of nine swords, is a nicely bound, 160 page, fullcolor hardcover sourcebook. The nine martial disciplines presented within allow a character with the proper knowledge and focus to perform special combat maneuvers and nearly magical effects. A master of martial maneuvers, the sword sage is a physical adept a blade wizard.
All maneuvers by level the unofficial tome of batte tools page. The book of nine swords is not a simple expansion of the dungeons and dragons combat system. As a swordsage, you are proficient with simple weapons, martial melee weapons including those that can be used as thrown weapons, and light armor, but not with shields. I found no maneuvers for epic martial adeptsat least, as far as i looked. This is the journeyman submitting his master piece. The disciplines available to you are devoted spirit, stone dragon, and white raven. Tome of battle for dummies davethemagicweasel morrus.
Book of nine swords, there is a mechanical upgrade that needs to be given in order to make the mechanics of the book work within complete control. A discipline is a family of maneuvers that share a common philosophy or effect. Much like a sorcerers spells, each stance or maneuver is a specific ability that a character might know. Extra readied maneuver, you are an unusually perspicacious student of the sublime way. Monk of the sublime way new book of nine swords class. As a crusader, you are proficient with simple weapons, martial weapons, light, medium, and heavy armor, and all shields maneuvers. The book of nine swords by richard baker, frank brunner, matthew sernett and joseph carriker 2006, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay.
The book of nine swords is an official supplement for the 3. Jun 21, 2019 the crusader had got a random system to recover spent maneuvers, and this was too complicated to be used like npcs by the dm, but maybe like a solo boss. Depending on which disciplines he chooses to study, a swordsage might be. The book of nine swords introduces three new martial adept core classes the crusader, swordsage and warblade and a system of martial powers for them to use, followed by the usual accompaniment of new skills and feats. The books martial powers are divided into nine disciplines. Book of nine swords youd think this literary allusion would be all over this book, but its not. Swordsage with bloodclaw master and shadow sun ninja subclasses. The book of nine swords the book of nine swords is from late in 3. Maneuvers by level the unofficial tome of batte tools page.
You begin your career with knowledge of five martial maneuvers. At 5th level, you have attained mastery of all nine disciplines. As a simple rule, 3rd level maneuvers are a good level to aim for. The nine of swords is related to the hermit card and emphasizes the loneliness aspect of this powerful tarot card. This book introduces a new element into the game, what the book calls sword magic. To refresh their maneuvers, a warblade just has to make a normal attack.
Masters of the nine swords a tome of battle inspired 5e. I want to briefly characterize the nine disciplines. The actual front cover of tome of battle is extremely uninteresting and you wouldnt think this would be one of the most important and divisive books of 3. First i want to say the book of nine swords is not broken. After having played a swordsage and dmd for a warblade, i actually decided to combine the three classes. Its similar to how all the really impressive wuxia martial artists have wirework abilities that arent 100% related to their styles, while each style has their own. That is the direction they are moving in, giving all players a diverse option to handle different scenarios. So, the book of nine swords gives us the opportunity to become the %race% of steel and pure awesomeness, it gives us maneuvers that make the character into onemanarmy and stuff, and thats really great. Maneuver cards a web enhancement for tome of battle. Characters created with these rules provide the asskicking competence you want from your heroes, while giving a martial player greater and more interesting tactical options on a roundforround basis.
I do not think this will mean all characters can handle all situations or that group play will be diminished. The book of nine swords is, at its most basic, one of the most innovative products to be released by wizards of the coast in the last couple of years. If you think it is broken you are just not using it right. This class pack introduces the core martial adept classes, the crusader, swordsage and warblade, along with the 208 maneuvers and stances of the nine disciplines that comprise the sublime way. You begin your career with knowledge of six martial maneuvers. The book of the nine swords into neverwinter nights 2. The book of nine swords by wizards of the coast a live version can be found at. The tome of battle was designed to provide new, interesting and powerful options melee combat. Each of the nine disciplines for tome of battles sublime way is composed of a number of specific stances and maneuvers namely, strikes, boosts, and counters. Instead this is intended as a general introduction to the book for. A small djangopowered filtering page for the maneuvers of tome of battle.
For those not familiar, the book of nine swords detailed three classes that studied various mystical sword disciplines. The disciplines available to you are desert wind, diamond mind, setting sun, shadow hand, stone dragon, and tiger claw. Monk of the sublime way new book of nine swords class the lightfoot style would be less a style and more a collection of movement maneuvers that everyone has access to. Martial arts maneuvers are readied instead of being memorized. Nine martial disciplines exist, each consisting of fifteen to twenty maneuvers and stances. Frank brunner nine are the disciplines of the sublime waythe path of martial supremacy in which the perfect combination of devotion, lore, and practice allows a warrior to achieve feats of superhuman prowess. The collection of tools currently consists of the following pages. I like the idea of tactical feats, as they are more than just regular feats, each capable of doing more than one thing.
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