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    Quote Originally Posted by balistafreak View Post
    • White Raven Tactics for infinite turns is a pretty blatant attempt to break the game. Note that it's intended use (the get-another-turn which is specifically outlined as legal) is actually merely powerful, not broken.
    WRT is the one case where you really just want to add to the maneuver that "you are not considered your own ally for the purposes of WRT". Clearly that's how the maneuver is designed. Though really, the best thing to do probably is to state that "in one encounter, a single creature may only be targeted by WRT once". This prevents certain extreme corner cases with Ruby Knight Vindicators, while changing basically nothing for normal use of the ability.

    Quote Originally Posted by balistafreak View Post
    • No, you cannot Iron Heart Surge away the sun because it's making you hot. As long as you make it only able to target clearly targetted effects (something that someone has just slapped onto the Warblade) it's quite fine as is.
    It's a great ability to rule On-Intent basis; by RAW it functions against everything with a duration, but takes a Standard Action to initiate. This really works just fine, to be honest, as long as you let it negate Light Dazzledness as opposed to the sun, and still have it end the AMF rather than just negate it (trust me, there's very little that matches in power to having your own personal AMF you aren't affected by).

    Quote Originally Posted by balistafreak View Post
    • Infinite attacks through Lightning Maces can be seen a mile away.
    It requires a questionable reading of the Aptitude-ability. Just use it as intended; to apply feats normally applying to one weapon that could apply to another weapon (such as XWeapon Proficiency, Weapon Focus, Improved Critical and so on) to this weapon instead.

    Quote Originally Posted by balistafreak View Post
    • A Crusader is not allowed to punch someone with a shuriken for infinite damage.
    This, again, is simply a lenient RAW reading; strict RAW reading states that you have to roll maximum damage, instead of having your lower result replaced by the higher result.

    In other words, these two abuses don't even really require houseruling to fix; it's enough to just read them in a certain way.
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