Initiating a counter requires a specific trigger to be met and uses your reaction.

The type of action necessary to initiate a maneuver varies depending on the type of maneuver.Ĭounter: A counter is a maneuver that allows a you to foil an opponent’s attack or interrupt an their action.

The three basic types of maneuvers are counters, strikes, and stances. Whenever one of your maneuvers forces a creature to make a saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus. You continue to learn additional maneuvers and stances as you gain levels, as noted on the Warblade table. You begin your career with knowledge of a two martial maneuvers and a single stance. Through intense mental exercise and training, you have learned techniques that allow you to attain superhuman levels of endurance, perception, and mental toughness.īenefit: You are able to perform incredible martial exploits known as maneuvers. While you maintain your combat focus, you have advantage on all saving throws against mind-affecting spells and abilities. During battle, you may also use your action to regain your combat focus. You regain your combat focus whenever you hit with an attack. You lose your combat focus whenever you are hit by an attack. In battle, you can attain a focused state that grants you near perfect mental clarity.īenefit: When combat begins and you roll initiative, you gain your combat focus. Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, Athletics, Insight, Intimidate, and Persuasion Hit Points at higher levels: 1d12 (or 7) + your Constitution modifier per warblade level after 1stĪrmor: Light armor, medium armor, and shields Hit Points at 1st level: 12 + your Constitution modifier They engage their enemies toe to toe and defeat them through skill at arms.Īs a warblade, you gain the following class features. Will have what you need, other then that i cant help.A warblade is a front-line melee combatant, much like a fighter or barbarian. Its currently the most modern, and a lot of people are looking to play it. Cant help you much with this versionĥe is a bit closer to 3.5, but still a bit simpler. to the point where there isnt much difference between the classes. its good for when you dont know which book something comes from.Ĥe is reeeeally simplified. just google the name and you can find yourself a giant list of classes and feats, which will be super useful.

If a player wants to play a mage-like character, show them the warlock, which you can find in the book 'complete arcane.' Its much more balanced then the world ending wizard and the boss one-shotting sorcerer.ģ) of course, the best tool is dndtools. Try to have your players build around tier 3-4. Barbarian is still a solid class from the base of the game.Ģ) if you want to have a balanced and really fun first game, google 'dnd 3.5 tier list'

The crusader replaces the paladin, the swordsage replaces the ranger, and the warblade replaces fighter. If you want other books i can recommend a few.ġ) if you want better melee you should google 'dnd 3.5 tome of battle' which will show you some nice powered up fighters. Players handbook 1 and 2 are pretty standard. Might want to google 'dnd 3.5 dungeon master's guide' or 'dnd 3.5 player's handbook', etc. Still, the big issue is that casters blow melee characters out of the ballpark after a few levels. Its more hardcore and its gonna be harder to get players for thisģ.5e is pretty numbers crunchy, but in my opinion its the best of the modern ones. First you need to know the version of the gameīefore 3.5 you are playing some old school stuff.

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