Martial Study: An extremely versatile feat, Martial Study opens up maneuvers to non-initiators, and allows initiator classes to access maneuvers from disciplines to which they normally do not have access. However, don’t take this unless you’re an initiator class non-initiators won’t get enough benefit from Martial Study alone. If you’re particularly devoted to one discipline, this can be an excellent option. Featsīlade Meditation: Assuming that you’re using a favored weapon of your discipline, this amounts to +1 to damage, +2 to a skill, and +1 to the DC’s of your chosen discipline. I also omit the use of “Flaws” since they allow a massive increase in power with essentially no cost to the character. Those options also tend to be wildly unbalanced and rarely receive errata. I am of the opinion that those options are intended to be limited to campaigns run in those settings, and as such they don’t really apply to a generic campaign. It’s important to note that I generally omit campaign-setting specific content. Blue: Fantastic options, often essential.Red: Bad, useless options, or options whichĪre extremely situational.For help identifying sourcebook abbreviations, see my Sourcebook Abbreviations Guide. Because so little of 3.5 is available on the SRD, I will attempt to tag items with a superscript indicating their book of origin. RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks, which tend to be more consistent than 3.5 handbooks. This guide is intended to be largely class-agnostic, especially because the Martial Stance and Martial Study feats allow non-initiator classes to take advantage of Martial Maneuvers. This guide is intended as a supplement to the contents of Tome of Battle, so be sure to read Chapter 3: Blade Magic before reading this guide.

While usually you fight a lot of mooks, I'd skip it.Tome of Battle introduced Martial Maneuvers, a new mechanic which works similar to spells, and introduced a whole new dynamic for martial combat. Strength of Stone is bad, and Stance of Clarity is good against single strong enemy. Hunter's Sense in NWN gives Listen bonus I believe, compared to Scent in PnP. Bolstering Voice might prove handy if you play in a party. And I don't really remember the level 1 White Raven maneuvers right now.įor stances, Punishing Stance gives great damage boost at the expense of some defense - IMO worth it, Blood in the Water, though impossible to implement perfectly, provides nice bonus to attacks and damage (doesn't stack in the current version though). I wouldn't recommed steel wind or steely strike. Charging Minotaur is nice, so can be Stone Bones. Wolf Fang Strike is good in PnP, attack with both weapons as a standard action, but in NWN - not that great. Of the first level maneuvers I could recommend Sapphire Nightmare Blade - good low level damage boost. Therefore Moment of Perfect Mind should be good choice, I am not sure how it works now though. Well, as a warblade/psion you probably dump wisdom. Sadly, many of the maneuvers do not work as intended so far (or I tested something wrong). First level maneuvers/stances are pretty weak, but there are notable exceptions.

Warblade maneuvers and stances