elliott20
2007-02-15, 10:20 AM
So I just bought ToB sometime last week and I finally got around to reading it yesterday thanks to the snow day I had.
I like the system and it's got so much flair to it. but my problem is I felt that ToB still leaves the core non-casters out in the cold on their own in terms of power because, well, these powers were written specifically just for the classes for ToB alone, me thinks.
Well, okay, there are stuff in there in how it applies to non-martial adept characters. Basically, they are treated as if they're going up at half the rate of the other martial adepts, but in addition to it they have to expend a feat to learn a single move, a feat to learn a stance, and so on. This means that in the end, a fighter 20 is not going to measure up to a warblade 20 simply because while a fighter can learn to do what he does, said fighter would have to sacrifice a lot to be on even footing with the warblade.
And the one class that actually needs the boost the most, i.e. monks, who are the original martial arts characters, have been left out of mention in the book entirely.
Maybe I'm just not seeing this the right way, but I don't quite feel that the ToB classes are that well balanced against the core non-casters.
So, my question is, how did you manage to make the ToB material mesh well with the core?
I like the system and it's got so much flair to it. but my problem is I felt that ToB still leaves the core non-casters out in the cold on their own in terms of power because, well, these powers were written specifically just for the classes for ToB alone, me thinks.
Well, okay, there are stuff in there in how it applies to non-martial adept characters. Basically, they are treated as if they're going up at half the rate of the other martial adepts, but in addition to it they have to expend a feat to learn a single move, a feat to learn a stance, and so on. This means that in the end, a fighter 20 is not going to measure up to a warblade 20 simply because while a fighter can learn to do what he does, said fighter would have to sacrifice a lot to be on even footing with the warblade.
And the one class that actually needs the boost the most, i.e. monks, who are the original martial arts characters, have been left out of mention in the book entirely.
Maybe I'm just not seeing this the right way, but I don't quite feel that the ToB classes are that well balanced against the core non-casters.
So, my question is, how did you manage to make the ToB material mesh well with the core?