[3.5+ToB/PF +DSP/PoW] GitP Regulars as Maneuvers!

[KrimsonNekros]

I don't know if I've interacted with you much on the forums, but your name gave me inspiration.

Crimson Necrosis
Sandbox Goliath (Strike)
Level: 1st
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round

Your blade strikes deep, leaving an ugly wound in its unlucky target.

As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack. If this attack hits, the target's wound bleeds rapidly, dealing an addition 1d4 damage per round for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 your initiator level, rounded up. This effect ignores damage reduction, but can be stopped by receiving one or more points of healing or with a DC 20 heal check (which can be made as a full-round action). A creature afflicted with this condition who attempts to make the heal check themselves does so at a -5 penalty. Using this strike against a creature already affected by another instance of Crimson Necrosis does not cause the damage to stack; instead, it extends the duration of the effect by a number of rounds equal to 1/2 your initiator level.

Oooh awesome! Definitely looks like something you want at first level got some reliable extra damage.

[Zaydos]

We need a 1st level stance. Hmm... Nope too sleepy to think of anything good.

[Extra Anchovies]

We need a 1st level stance. Hmm... Nope too sleepy to think of anything good.

How about something about this forum in general?

Check Your Facts
Sandbox Goliath (Stance)
Level: 1st
Prerequisite: One Sandbox Goliath maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Stance

You draw upon the knowledge you possess to strike at your foes' weak points.

While in this stance, you gain +1 to attack and damage rolls against creatures whose relevant Knowledge skill (e.g. Knowledge (Arcana) for dragons) you have at least one rank in.
If you have at least 10 ranks in a creature's relevant Knowledge skill, you instead gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls against that creature.
If you have at least 20 ranks in a creature's relevant Knowledge skill, you instead gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls against that creature.
Special: If you're using the 3.5's skill system instead of Pathfinder's, the bonuses to attack and damage increase at 12 ranks and 23 ranks.

[Tempestfury]

T.T No one's making anything for me.

[Extra Anchovies]

T.T No one's making anything for me.

Your username also gives me inspiration! I like making things based on people's usernames!

Tempestuous Fury
Sandbox Goliath (Strike)
Level: 8
Prerequisite: Three Sandbox Goliath maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: See text
Target: All enemies within range
Duration: Instantaneous

T.T

You whirl your weapon(s) around you, sparing none of your foes. Make an attack at your highest attack bonus against all enemies within reach of the weapon used to make the attack, then make another attack at your second-highest attack bonus against all enemies within reach of the weapon used to make the attack. If the second attack set of attacks are made using a different weapon than the first, they are made at your highest attack bonus instead of your second-highest.

EDIT: Turned out to be pretty weaksauce and unoriginal; use WhamBamSam's version instead.

[Amphetryon]

Permission granted to make me into a Maneuver.

Perhaps I failed a Spot check?

[dysprosium]

You and me both.

But let me try making one for you Amph.

Icy Veteran Stance
Sandbox Goliath (stance)
Level: 5
Prerequisite: one Sandbox Goliath maneuver
Initiation Action: swift action
Range: personal
Target: you
Duration: stance

You have been around long enough to have seen just about everything and know how to prepare yourself for what comes next. You are going exceed expectations at whatever ingredient is thrown your way.

You gain a preternatural sense of what is happening around you. While in this stance you can no longer be surprised, flanked, or rendered flat footed by any means.



Note: Apologies if a stance exists like this already in PoW. The 'icy' part of the stance's title is a play on how the Iron Chef people usually abbreviate that competition.

[WhamBamSam]

Here's one for you Dysprosium. It also gives us a bit more utility for Martial Lore as a discipline skill, since it's ordinarily not very useful. I've got two versions, so perhaps you or the rest of the thread could help me decide between them.

Spoiler: Old Drafts

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Mirror of Zinc and Dysprosium
Sandbox Goliath (boost)
Level: 6
Prerequisite: two Sandbox Goliath maneuvers
Initiation Action: swift action
Range: personal
Target: you
Duration: 1 round

Can you even make a reflective surface with zinc and/or dysprosium? Well, no matter. Your enemies are left no time for such concerns when their own techniques are turned against them.

You may choose any maneuver that you have successfully identified during this encounter with a Martial Lore check. You have access to that maneuver as if it were one of your readied and/or granted maneuvers for one round.

Mirror of Zinc and Dysprosium
Sandbox Goliath (counter)
Level: 4
Prerequisite: one Sandbox Goliath maneuvers
Initiation Action: immediate action
Range: varies
Target: varies
Duration: instantaneous

Can you even make a reflective surface with zinc and/or dysprosium? Well, no matter. Your enemies are left no time for such concerns when their own techniques are turned against them.

You may initiate this maneuver when you successfully identify a maneuver used against you with a Martial Lore check. After that maneuver has been resolved, you immediately initiate the same maneuver.

In concept, I like the counter version better, but I'm worried that might make the maneuver a little too situational.

EDIT: Current draft: A slightly edited version of the counter.

Mirror of Zinc and Dysprosium
Sandbox Goliath (counter)
Level: 4
Prerequisite: one Sandbox Goliath maneuvers
Initiation Action: immediate action
Range: varies
Target: varies
Duration: instantaneous

Can you even make a reflective surface with zinc and/or dysprosium? Well, no matter. Your enemies are left no time for such concerns when their own techniques are turned against them.

You may initiate this maneuver when you make a successful Martial Lore check to identify a non-stance maneuver initiated by another creature. After that maneuver has been resolved, you immediately initiate the same maneuver.

[Snowbluff]

I like the counter better, too.

[dysprosium]

Thanks WhamBamSam!

The counter version is awesome. It may be situational but it would be one that I would always have readied as an initiator, especially if I knew I was going up against other initiators. Plus having it work on the Martial Lore skill links it all together.

[Elricaltovilla]

Maybe adjust the counter to allow you to use any maneuver you identify with a Martial Lore check? That way it opens up some teamwork options with martial adept allies?

[Talya]

You have my permission. I highly suspect that any Talya-inspired maneuvers will be... social in nature. Or at least require losing elements of clothing.

[LoyalPaladin]

Or at least require losing elements of clothing.

Whoa whoa whoa. This is not approved by the DOP.

However, the spoiler in your signature made me laugh. I will allow that to have my stamp of approval.

[illyahr]

You have my permission. I highly suspect that any Talya-inspired maneuvers will be... social in nature. Or at least require losing elements of clothing.

Now where would you get that idea?

Here you go. We bards gotta stick together.

Talya's Spiral Dance
Sandbox Goliath (counter)
Level: 2
Initiation Action: immediate action
Range: personal
Target: you
Duration: 1 round

With a spin and a flourish, you distract your foe and sidestep out of way of an impending attack. Your fluttering garments leave your target unsure of your new position.

When an opponent attacks you with a melee attack, you may use a Tumble (or Acrobatics, if using PF) in place of your Armor Class against that attack. If the attack misses, you may make an attack on your next turn against that opponent which catches them Flat-Footed.

[Zaydos]

Talya's Loose Step
Sandbox Goliath (Stance)
Level: 1st.
Initiation Action: Swift.
Range: Personal.
Target: You.
Duration: Stance.
Stripped of armor you move with greater speed and agility, avoiding blows with speed first and foremost.

While in this stance and not wearing armor or a shield, or receiving an armor or Exalted bonus to AC from another source (such as Vow of Poverty, Mage Armor, or Bracers of Armor) you gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC +1/2 your Initiator level. In addition you gain a +1 bonus to all skills that are affected by armor check penalties, increasing to +2 if you have at least 11 ranks in Martial Lore (8 ranks in PF); this bonus to skills doubles (to +2/+4) if you are completely naked, except on Hide where it instead triples (to +3/+6).

[LoyalPaladin]

Talya's Spiral Dance

Well done illyahr, this is approved by the Department of Paladins. Zaydos on the other hand...

Talya's Loose Step
if you are completely naked, except on Hide where it instead triples (to +3/+6).

You have violated the law.

[Zaydos]

Well done illyahr, this is approved by the Department of Paladins. Zaydos on the other hand...


You have violated the law.

It's not my fault I have the half-dragon template of an Always Neutral Evil species of dragon That I made... um...

[illyahr]

You have violated the law.

except on Hide where it instead triples (to +3/+6).

Whoooo! I'm invisible!

[LoyalPaladin]

It's not my fault I have the half-dragon template of an Always Neutral Evil species of dragon That I made... um...

[WhamBamSam]

I like the counter better, too.

Thanks WhamBamSam!

The counter version is awesome. It may be situational but it would be one that I would always have readied as an initiator, especially if I knew I was going up against other initiators. Plus having it work on the Martial Lore skill links it all together.

Maybe adjust the counter to allow you to use any maneuver you identify with a Martial Lore check? That way it opens up some teamwork options with martial adept allies?

Glad you like it! I think I'll take Elricaltovilla's suggestion and let you mimic anyone other than yourself, not just someone who's attacking you. I got partway there already by deciding not to force you to attack the thing that attacked you. Should that bump it up to 5th level?

EDIT: Decided to make it any non-stance maneuver. Otherwise the indefinite duration on stances makes it a bit screwy.

You have my permission. I highly suspect that any Talya-inspired maneuvers will be... social in nature. Or at least require losing elements of clothing.

I was thinking some sort of Zorro-style cutting off of clothing/armor, but it seems others have already written maneuvers for you.

[Talya]

Zaydos on the other hand...


You have violated the law.

Your paladin would not get along well in my sorceress's grand basilica, dedicated to the Goddesses Sune and Sharess, despite that it is guarded by an order of paladins. (Ruby Rose Knights)

[Extra Anchovies]

Talya's Loose Step
Sandbox Goliath (Stance)
Level: 1st.
Initiation Action: Swift.
Range: Personal.
Target: You.
Duration: Stance.
Stripped of armor you move with greater speed and agility, avoiding blows with speed first and foremost.

While in this stance and not wearing armor or a shield, or receiving an armor or Exalted bonus to AC from another source (such as Vow of Poverty, Mage Armor, or Bracers of Armor) you gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC +1/2 your Initiator level. In addition you gain a +1 bonus to all skills that are affected by armor check penalties, increasing to +2 if you have at least 11 ranks in Martial Lore (8 ranks in PF); this bonus to skills doubles (to +2/+4) if you are completely naked, except on Hide where it instead triples (to +3/+6).

Hm. I like this a lot. Unarmored characters need a lot more support*. The skill bonuses are a nice touch, too.

*no, not that kind of support. Get your mind out of the gutter.

[Snowbluff]

Glad you like it! I think I'll take Elricaltovilla's suggestion and let you mimic anyone other than yourself, not just someone who's attacking you. I got partway there already by deciding not to force you to attack the thing that attacked you. Should that bump it up to 5th level?

EDIT: Decided to make it any non-stance maneuver. Otherwise the indefinite duration on stances makes it a bit screwy.

No, I don't like this change. Then it's "do any maneuver you like as a swift action." :L

[Extra Anchovies]

No, I don't like this change. Then it's "do any maneuver you like as a swift action." :L

Maybe stipulate that you have to have identified the maneuver within the last two rounds? Then it would mostly be useful for its intended purpose, which is mirroring an opponent or emulating an ally.

[LoyalPaladin]

Your paladin would not get along well in my sorceress's grand basilica, dedicated to the Goddesses Sune and Sharess, despite that it is guarded by an order of paladins. (Ruby Rose Knights)

Most likely not. While I am all for fun and games, public indecency is still a crime and as a paladin of Torm I just can't allow that to slide. Also, I went Paladin / Fist of Raziel / Hellreaver. Throwing away your dressings in hell is pretty much a death sentence. Haha.

However, if it is a bunch of wild maidens running about in private... this charisma isn't just for show. Or is it?

[illyahr]

Most likely not. While I am all for fun and games, public indecency is still a crime and as a paladin of Torm I just can't allow that to slide. Also, I went Paladin / Fist of Raziel / Hellreaver. Throwing away your dressings in hell is pretty much a death sentence. Haha.

However, if it is a bunch of wild maidens running about in private... this charisma isn't just for show. Or is it?

Public indecency is a crime where now? What constitutes being indecent? There are many places where public nudity isn't illegal, just frowned upon. Would you shackle a person's religious beliefs based on a social expectation that may or may not actually be law?

[Talya]

Most likely not. While I am all for fun and games, public indecency is still a crime and as a paladin of Torm I just can't allow that to slide.

What about public places where it's not a crime?

In any event, the Grand Basilica of Flaming Passions is a walled enclave and independent state within the city of Calimport. The Heartwarder (High Priestess of Sune) is the only physical authority at the location.

However, if it is a bunch of wild maidens running about in private... this charisma isn't just for show. Or is it?

I was going to call you on your use of the word "maiden," but seeing as you added the descriptor "wild" in front of it, I doubt you have any delusions about Basilica residents being "maidens" of the traditional sort.

[WhamBamSam]

No, I don't like this change. Then it's "do any maneuver you like as a swift action." :L

That was part of what I was trying to avoid with the "other than you" specification, but I do see a fair bit of potential for abuse. Note that it's not "any maneuver" so much as "any maneuver that happened just now." You use the counter when you make the Martial Lore check, which you make when the maneuver is initiated.

[LoyalPaladin]

Public indecency is a crime where now? What constitutes being indecent? There are many places where public nudity isn't illegal, just frowned upon.

Considering I live in Waterdeep... yes, I'm going to go with it is against the law. Our Yuan-Ti was nearly arrested in Baldur's Gate for public nudity.

Would you shackle a person's religious beliefs based on a social expectation that may or may not actually be law?

Well, all things are left to Torm. This is where I put on a neat little device called the Phylactery of Faithfulness. Hold on... getting a message. Huh. That's funny...

Strive to maintain law and order.

Hands in the air and put the lute where I can see it, bard!

What about public places where it's not a crime?

It's fine with Torm, so it's find with me.

I was going to call you on your use of the word "maiden," but seeing as you added the descriptor "wild" in front of it, I doubt you have any delusions about Basilica residents being "maidens" of the traditional sort.

Yeah, I made some judgements based on intuition. It isn't profiling. It's an educated guess.

[illyahr]

Hands in the air and put the lute where I can see it, bard!

Trick playing costs extra so I hope you're good for it. *starts playing his lute over his head*