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# Tome of Battle - Martial Powers

## Martial Powers
Martial Powers fall into two distinct categories: **stances** and **maneuvers**. A martial maneuver is a discrete extraordinary or supernatural effect that is temporarily expended after use. A stance is never expended and is always available to you.

**You can use a particular stance or maneuver as many times as you like, but each time you use a maneuver, you temporarily expend it** — you lose a little of your mental focus, you exhaust some small portion of your personal ki or energy, or you simply finish the move out of position and can’t immediately launch the same attack again without assuming the proper posture and mental state first. In other words, you can't use an expended maneuver again until you have rested for a very short time or used an action that allows you to recover one or more expended maneuvers.

As a result, you can normally use each of your readied maneuvers once per encounter, but sometimes you can recover one or more maneuvers you used earlier in the encounter and use them again. **You never expend or use up your stances**, so they are always available.

## Known Maneuvers
Much like spells, martial maneuvers are organized by level. Higher-level maneuvers are more powerful than lower level ones. As you gain levels, you have the option to select higher-level maneuvers. Your level in a class determines the highest-level maneuvers you can select. For example, a 5th-level fighter can select maneuvers of 3rd level or lower (as shown in the class table).

**Everytime you gain a level**, in a class that grants you maneuvers, you can **swap an already known one for a new one** appropriate for your level.

## Readying Martial Powers
**You do not need to ready your stances ahead of time.** Every stance you know is always available to you. **However, maneuvers require preparation** in the form of exercise, prayer, meditation, or simple mental rehearsal. Therefore, you must **choose a selection of readied maneuvers** from all the maneuvers you know. Only your readied maneuvers are available for immediate use. The **number of maneuvers** you can ready at one time depends on your **class and level**.

> ##### Are manuevers magical?
> Manuevers and stances are generally not considered magical and are unaffected by spells like *dispel magic* or *antimagic field*, or traits like *Magic Resistance*, or features like *Aura of Warding*. However, some manuevers or stances specifically state that they are magical/supernatural in which case they are indeed affected by the before mentioned effects.

## Prerequisites
Many maneuvers and stances have a prerequisite, like "One White Raven maneveur". You can only learn maneuvers or stances if you know enough martial powers to fulfill the prerequisite. Additionally, if you swap martial powers in a way where you know a martial power for which you do not meet the prerequisite, you can not activate it or gain any benefit from it.

## Initiating Maneuvers and Stances
**To initiate** a maneuver or a stance, **you must be able to move** (movement speed greater 0). **You initiate a maneuver by taking the specified initiation action.** A maneuver might require an **action, bonus action, move, reaction, or Attack** to initiate. **If an Attack is required as the initation action and you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this maneuver replaces one of them.** The process of initiating a maneuver is similar to that of casting a spell, although there are some key differences (see below). You can only choose to initiate a maneuver that is currently readied and unexpended.

**Stances**, once initiated, **remain in effect indefinitely unless you fall unconcious**, in which case they end, but **you can only be affected by one stance** and loose its benefit when you initiate another stance you know. You enjoy the benefits of your stance even outside of combat.

### Concentration
Unlike with spells, **you need not concentrate to initiate a maneuver or stance**. However enemy interference might make certain maneuvers impossible to complete. For example, if you begin your turn grappled or restrained, your speed is 0 which means you can not use maneuvers. If you initiate a maneuver and subsequently can't use it during your turn, the maneuver is still considered expended.

### Initiatior Level
Some maneuvers and stances have variable effects (such as duration) that depend on initiator level. However, maneuvers are not impacted as strongly by a user’s level as spells are. This difference in effect is primarily a balance and game play issue. Since you can use maneuvers repeatedly, they tend to scale poorly. As you attain higher levels, you usually use your low-level maneuvers less often. Many stances, boosts, and counters, however, remain useful across all levels. If you are a single-class character, **your initiator level equals your level in the class that provides access to martial maneuvers**.

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### Saving Throws
When a maneuver forces a saving throw the DC is equal to the maneuver save DC defined by your class.

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### Recovering Expended Maneuvers
**You begin each encounter with all your readied maneuvers available.** When you initiate a maneuver, it is expended — you can not use it again until you recover it.

**When an encounter ends, you automatically recover all expended maneuvers.** Even a few moments out of combat is sufficient to refresh all maneuvers expended in the previous battle. In the case of a long, drawn-out series of fights, or if you are out of combat entirely, assume that if you make no attacks of any kind, initiates no new maneuvers, and are not targeted by any enemy attacks for 1 full minute, you can recover all expended maneuvers. If you can’t avoid attacking or being attacked for 1 minute, you can’t automatically recover your maneuvers and must use special actions (determined by your class) to do so instead.

## Class Table Additions
Martial classes can be divided into three distinct groups: **Full martial classes, half martial classes and third martial classes.** This represents the importance of martial maneuvers and stances in their fighting style and also determines the level of access they have to martial powers.

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##### Full Martial
| Level | Maneuvers Known | Maneuvers Readied | Stances Known | Max Level |
|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| 1st | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1st |
| 2nd | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1st |
| 3rd | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2nd |
| 4th | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2nd |
| 5th | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3rd |
| 6th | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3rd |
| 7th | 12 | 7 | 3 | 4th |
| 8th | 13 | 7 | 3 | 4th |
| 9th | 14 | 8 | 4 | 5th |
| 10th | 15 | 8 | 4 | 5th |
| 11th | 16 | 9 | 4 | 6th |
| 12th | 17 | 9 | 4 | 6th |
| 13th | 18 | 10 | 5 | 7th |
| 14th | 19 | 10 | 5 | 7th |
| 15th | 20 | 11 | 5 | 8th |
| 16th | 21 | 11 | 5 | 8th |
| 17th | 22 | 12 | 6 | 9th |
| 18th | 23 | 12 | 6 | 9th |
| 19th | 24 | 13 | 6 | 9th |
| 20th | 25 | 13 | 6 | 9th |

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##### Half martial
| Level | Maneuvers Known | Maneuvers Readied | Stances Known | Max Level |
|:---:|:---:|:--:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| 1st | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2nd | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1st |
| 3rd | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1st |
| 4th | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1st |
| 5th | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2nd |
| 6th | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2nd |
| 7th | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2nd |
| 8th | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2nd |
| 9th | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3rd |
| 10th | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3rd |
| 11th | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3rd |
| 12th | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3rd |
| 13th | 9 | 5 | 4 | 3rd |
| 14th | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4th |
| 15th | 10 | 5 | 4 | 4th |
| 16th | 10 | 5 | 4 | 4th |
| 17th | 11 | 6 | 4 | 4th |
| 18th | 12 | 6 | 4 | 5th |
| 19th | 12 | 6 | 5 | 5th |
| 20th | 13 | 6 | 5 | 5th |

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### 1st level

#### Blistering Flourish
*1st level Desert Wind*
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- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** 10 ft.
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** 1 minute
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Your weapon bursts into flames as you twirl it over your head. With a flourish, you cause the fire to explode with a blinding flash. When you use this manuever, you generate a burst of brilliant light. Any creature of your choice within 10 feet of you, must make a Constitution saving throw or be blinded for 1 minute. A blinded creature can make a Constitution saving throw at the end of its turn. On a success, the creature is no longer blinded.This maneuver is a magical ability.

#### Burning Blade
*1st level Desert Wind*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** End of turn
___
Your blade bursts into flame as it sweeps toward your foe in an elegant arc. A subtle yet precise twisting of your blade unlocks the power of flame. When you initiate this maneuver, fire trails from your melee weapon. Until the end of your turn, your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d4 fire damage. This damage increases by 1d4 for every 4 initiator levels you have.This maneuver is a magical ability.

#### Flame's Blessing
*1st level Desert Wind*
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- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
___
Fire is not your enemy, and it does not harm you. You gain some resistance to fire as long as you remain in this stance. The amount of resistance is determined by your initiator level.1 - 4: Reduce fire damage by 5

5 - 8: Reduce fire damage by 10

9 - 12: Reduce fire damage by 10 and resistance to fire damage

13 - 20: Immunity to fire damageThis stance is a magical ability.
 
 
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#### Flashing Sun
*1st level Desert Wind*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
Almost a blur of acceleration, your shining blade flashes as you attack with impossible speed. Flashing sun allows you to make an additional melee attack during this round. As part of this maneuver, you take an Attack action. However, you can make one additional attack this round. All the attacks you make this round, including the extra attack granted by this maneuver, are made with a disadvantage.

#### Moment of Perfect Mind
*1st level Diamond Mind*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Reaction, which you take when you make an Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma saving throw
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
Your mental focus and martial study have rendered your will into an unbreakable iron wall. Between your devoted study, iron will, and supreme focus, you have learned to resist attempts to subvert your willpower. You can use this maneuver any time you make an Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma saving throw. When you use this maneuver you can add your Constitution modifier to the saving throw. You must use this maneuver before you attempt the save.

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#### Sapphire Nightmare Blade
*1st level Diamond Mind*
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- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
You study your enemy for a brief moment, watching his defensive maneuvers and making a strike timed to take advantage of a lull in his vigilance. You attempt an Intelligence (Insight) or Wisdom (Insight) check as part of this maneuver, using the target creature’s AC as the DC of the check. You then make a single melee attack against your target. If your check has succeeded you can add you Intelligence or Wisdom modifier to the attack and damage rolls of the attack.

#### Stance of Clarity
*1st level Diamond Mind*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
___
You focus your efforts on a single opponent, studying his moves and preparing an attack. Your other opponents fade from sight as your mind locks onto your target. This stance allows you to focus on a single opponent to the exclusion of all others. While you are in this stance, you must choose a single creature as your target at the start of your turn. Your target has a 1d4 penalty to their attack rolls when attacking you, all other creatures have a 1d4 bonus to their attack rolls when attacking you.

#### Punishing Stance
*1st level Iron Heart*
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- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
___
You chop down violently with your weapon, lending extra force to your blows. These attacks come at a cost, as your enemies slash at your undefended legs and flanks. You hold your weapon overhead, allowing you to chop down with superior force. However, this fighting stance leaves you vulnerable to an opponent’s attacks. While you are in this stance, you deal an extra 1d4 damage with all melee attacks. This damage increases by 1d4 for every 4 initiator levels you have. You also can not add your Dexterity modifier to your Armor Class, because this fighting stance emphasizes power over a defensive posture.
 
 
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#### Steel Wind
*1st level Iron Heart*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** Two creatures
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
You swing your weapon in a broad, deadly arc, striking two foes with a single, mighty blow. Through a combination of sheer power and unmatched talent, you make an attack that injures multiple opponents. As you initiate this manuever, you make two melee attacks, each against a different creature, without moving inbetween attacks. The number of attacks increases to three if you have 5 initator levels and to four at 11 initator levels.

#### Steely Strike
*1st level Iron Heart*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** 1 round; see text
___
You focus yourself for a single, accurate attack. The Iron Heart discipline teaches focus, allowing you to engage and defeat one opponent at a time. You make a melee attack that gains a bonus to the attack roll equal to your proficiency bonus. All creatures, other than the target, have advantage on attacks against you until the start of your next turn.

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#### Counter Charge
*1st level Setting Sun*
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- **Initiation Action:** Reaction, which you take when are hit by a melee attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
With a quick sidestep, you send a charging opponent sprawling. When an enemy, that you can see, hits you with a melee attack against you, you can initiate this maneuver. You use the enemies momentum against them an attempt a shove attack against them. When you succeed you can push the creature 10 feet in any direction and knock them prone. The attack that triggered this manuever does not deal damage if you succeed.

#### Step of the Wind
*1st level Setting Sun*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
___
You walk across rubble and other broken terrain with deceptive ease, allowing you to take advantage of your opponents as they struggle to move at full speed. You are so closely attuned to your environment that you easily pick out steady spots in rough terrain. While you are in this stance, you ignore difficult terrain. If you attack an opponent standing in difficult terrain while you are in this stance you gain a bonus to the attack and damage roll of the attack equal to your proficiency bonus.Additionally you gain a bonus equal to your proficiency bonus when attempting a grapple or shove attack to your ability check associated with it.

#### Child of Shadow
*1st level Shadow Hand*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
___
As you move, shadows flutter and swarm around you. As an initiate of the Shadow Hand school, you learn to channel and control dark, shadowy energies. If you move at least 10 feet during your turn, you gain the following benefits, until the end of your turn:<ul>

<li>Advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.</li>

<li>You are considered lightly obscured.</li>

<li>While in darkness, you are invisible to any creatures that rely on darkvision to see you.</li>

</ul>This maneuver is a magical ability.

#### Clinging Shadow Strike
*1st level Shadow Hand*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
Your weapon transforms into solid darkness. As part of this maneuver, you make a melee attack. If it hits, you deal an extra 1d6 damage, and your opponent must make succeed on Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of their next turn.This maneuver is a magical ability.

#### Shadow Blade Technique
*1st level Shadow Hand*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
You weave your weapon in an elaborate pattern, creating an illusory double that glows with white energy. This maneuver allows you to create a mystical double of your weapon. As part of this maneuver, you make a melee attack against a creature. Unlike on a normal attack, you make two attack rolls and choose which attack roll you want to use. If you use the higher die result, resolve your attack as normal. (Your mystic double misses, but your true attack might hit.) If you use the lower die result, or if both die results are the same, your attack deals an extra 1d6 points of cold damage as both the mystic double’s attack and your true weapon strike home.This maneuver is a magical ability.

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#### Charging Minotaur
*1st level Stone Dragon*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
You charge at your foe, blasting him with such power that he stumbles back. As you roar across the battlefield, your position yourself to deliver a devastating charge attack. As part of this maneuver, you can move up to your speed towards a creature without provoking opportunity attacks and then shove it. When the shove succeeds you can also instantly make a melee weapon attack against the creature and push it back another 10 feet away from you.

#### Stone Bones
*1st level Stone Dragon*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** 1 round
___
You focus your energy to enhance your defenses, drawing on the power of your weapon's impact with a foe to toughen yourself against a counterattack. When you use this maneuver, you make a melee attack. On a hit you gain 4d8 temporary hit points until the start of your next turn.

#### Bolstering Voice
*1st level White Raven*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** 60 ft.
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
___
Your clarion voice strengthens the will of your comrades. So long as you remain on the field of battle, your allies are strengthened against attacks and effects that seek to subvert their willpower. While you are in this stance, all allies within 60 feet of you who can hear you gain advantage on saving throws against being frightened and can add 1d4 on Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma saving throws. The bonus to saving throws increases to 1d6 if you have 5 initator levels and to 1d8 at 11 initator levels. 
 
 
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#### Douse the Flames
*1st level White Raven*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** 1 round
___
You strike your enemy with a resounding blow, capturing his attention. As he turns to look, you let loose with a string of oaths, challenges, and taunts that force him to focus his attention on you. As part of this maneuver, you make a melee attack against a target. If your attack hits, the target creature can't make attacks of opportunity until the start of your next turn. Additionally the next attack, not by you, against the target, before the start of your next turn, has advantage.

#### Leading the Attack
*1st level White Raven*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** 1 round
___
You boldly strike at your enemy. As you attack, you shout a war cry to demonstrate that victory is at hand. As part of this maneuver, you make a melee attack. If this attack hits, your allies can add your proficiency bonus to attack rolls made against the creature you hit, until the start of your next turn.

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### 2nd level

#### Burning Brand
*2nd level Desert Wind*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** End of turn
___
Your weapon transforms into a roaring gout of flame. As you swing your burning blade, it stretches out beyond your normal reach to scorch your foes. When you initiate this maneuver, your weapon turns into a burning brand until the end your turn. Your weapon gains the reach property and all damage it deals is fire damage. It also deals an additional 1d6 fire damage.This maneuver is a magical ability.

#### Clever Positioning
*2nd level Desert Wind*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
With a swift flurry of motion, you knock you foe off balance, slip into his space, and force him into the spot you just occupied. As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack against a target. If your attack hits, the target takes damage normally and must make a Dexterity saving throw. If this save fails, you swap positions with the target and knocking it prone. If the target is Large or larger, you can occupy any of the squares that make up its space. The target must in turn occupy the square, or one of the squares, you previously occupied. You cannot use this maneuver if you or the target would end up sharing the same space as another creature or an impassable terrain feature, such as a wall. If your target occupies a larger space than you do, he chooses his final position according to the guidelines given above.

#### Fire Riposte
*2nd level Desert Wind*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Reaction, which you take when are hit by a melee attack
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
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You focus the pain from a wound you have just suffered into a fiery manifestation of revenge. When a creature hits you with a melee weapon attack, you can use this maneuver to creature a fire whip striking at the creature that hit you. The creature has to succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 4d10 fire damage.This maneuver is a magical ability.

#### Emerald Razor
*2nd level Diamond Mind*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
You mentally probe an enemies defenses in search of a weakness. As part of this maneuver, make a melee attack against an opponent. This attack ignores armor that the enemy is wearing. This does not ignore things like natural armor, only equiped armor, like plate mail and shields.

#### Disarming Strike
*2nd level Iron Heart*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
You chop at your foe’s hand, causing a grievous injury and forcing him to drop his weapon. This maneuver allows you to combine a disarm with a normal attack. You make a melee attack as part of this manuever. If this attack hits and deals damage, you disarm your opponent (DMG p. 271).

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#### Wall of Blades
*2nd level Iron Heart*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
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Your weapon sways back and forth in your hand, ready to block incoming blows. With the speed of a thunderbolt, you clash your weapon against your foe’s blade as he attempts to attack. Your weapon mastery transforms your blade into an extension of your arm, allowing you to wield it with the speed and timing needed to make a precise block. When an enemy makes a melee or ranged attack against you, you can initiate this counter to oppose that attack by making an attack roll with any melee weapon you are holding. Use the higher of your AC or your attack roll as your AC against the incoming attack.

#### Baffling Defense
*2nd level Setting Sun*
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- **Initiation Action:** Reaction, which you take when you are attacked
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
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You crouch balanced on one foot, hands held high over your head. Your foe hesitates, unsure of how to attack you. When an enemy, that you can see, makes an attack against you, you can initiate this maneuver replacing your AC with the result of a Wisdom (Insight) check. You must decide whether to initiate this maneuver before you know the result of your opponent's attack. Your AC returns to normal at the end of your turn.

#### Cloak of Deception
*2nd level Shadow Hand*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** End of turn
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The shadows around you seem to surge forward and engulf you. When you initiate this maneuver, you turn invisible until the end of your turn.
 
 
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#### Drain Vitality
*2nd level Shadow Hand*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
A faint nimbus of sickly gray shadow surrounds your weapon. When you attack, this shadowy aura flows into the wound you inflict. As part of this maneuver, make a melee attack. If this attack hits, you deal damage as normal and the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or its maximum hit points are reduced to its current hit points. The maximum hit point reduction is applied after the damage.

#### Shadow Jaunt
*2nd level Shadow Hand*
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- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** 20 ft.
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
A cloud of shadow energy engulfs you, spins into a tiny mote, and disappears. A moment later, this shadowy cloud appears across the battlefi eld and expels you from it. As part of this maneuver, you disappear in a cloud of darkness and teleport up to 20 feet to an unoccupied space you can see.

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#### Mountain Hammer
*2nd level Stone Dragon*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature or object
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
Like a falling avalanche, you strike with the weight and fury of the mountain. As part of this maneuver, you make a melee attack. This attack deals an extra 4d6 damage and ignores all effects that would reduce its damage.

#### Battle Leader's Charge
*2nd level White Raven*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Melee Attack / 30 ft.
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
You lead from the front, charging your enemies so that your allies can follow in your wake. You have learned to lead an attack with a mighty charge, to disrupt the enemy and inspire your allies in battle. As part of this maneuver, you charge an opponent using up to your speed. You do not provoke attacks of opportunity for moving as part of this charge. All allies within 30 feet of you can use their reaction to also charge the same enemy. They can move up to their speed on a direct route towards the target and do not provoke attacks of opportunity for moving as part of this charge.

#### Tactical Strike
*2nd level White Raven*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
Your skill at arms and overwhelming power force your opponent to falter at a fatal moment. As part of this maneuver, you make a melee attack. If this attack hits, it deals an extra 3d6 damage. In addition, each ally adjacent to the target can take a 5-foot step that does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
 
 
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### 3rd level

#### Death Mark
*3rd level Desert Wind*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
As your weapon strikes your foe, his body convulses as waves of flame run down your blade into his body. The fire causes him to briefly glow with a brilliant internal fire before the flames erupt from his body in a terrible explosion. You make a melee attack as part of this manuever, on a hit the creature errupts in fire, damaging all creatures within a 20-foot radius sphere. A creature inside the sphere must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure they take 6d6 fire damage, or half as much on a success.This maneuver is a magical ability.

#### Fan the Flames
*3rd level Desert Wind*
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- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** 60 ft.
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
Flickering flame dances across your blade, then springs toward your target as you sweep your sword through the air. When you initiate this maneuver, you launch a fist-sized ball of white-hot fire at a creature. Make a unarmed attack against a target within 60 feet of you. This attack deals 5d8 fire damage instead of its normal damage.

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#### Absolute Steel
*3rd level Iron Heart*
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- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
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You shift your weight to the back of your feet and hold your blade carefully forward at the ready. Your muscles twitch slightly as you prepare to dodge the next attack you face. While you are in this stance, your speed increases by 10 feet. If you are not wearing a shield and you move at least 10 feet during your turn, you gain a +2 bonus to AC until the beginning of your next turn.

#### Exorcism of Steel
*3rd level Iron Heart*
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- **Initiation Action:** Reaction, which you take when you hit with a melee attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** see text
___
You attack, striking not only your foe, but his weapon aswell, sending a shockwave up his arm that leaves him unable to strike with full force. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can initiate this maneuver as a reaction. You unbalance them with the attack and they can not add their Strength or Dexterity modifier to their attacks damage or attack rolls until the end of their next turn.

#### Iron Heart Surge
*3rd level Iron Heart*
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- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** see text
___
By drawing on your mental strength and physical fortitude, you break free of a debilitating state that might otherwise defeat you. Your fighting spirit, dedication, and training allow you to overcome almost anything to defeat your enemies. When you use this maneuver, select one spell, effect, or other condition currently affecting you and with a duration of 1 or more rounds. That effect ends immediately.
 
 
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#### Devastating Throw
*3rd level Setting Sun*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
Seizing your foe by the arm, you spin in a quick half-circle and hurl him headlong away from you. As part of this manuever you must attempt a grapple attack against the target. If you succeed you can throw your enemy 20 feet in any direction, your target takes 4d6 + your initator level bludgeoning damage and is knocked prone. Creatures with a hover speed do not take damage from this maneuver.

#### Assassin's Stance
*3rd level Shadow Hand*
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- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
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As your foe struggles to regain his defensive posture, you line up an exacting strike that hits with superior accuracy and deadly force. A shadow cast by a gap between two armored plates or a crease in a creature’s thick hide calls to your weapon, allowing you to strike with deadly accuracy against an unprepared opponent. While you are in this stance, you gain the sneak attack class feature, if you do not already have it, which deals an extra 2d6 damage. If you already have the sneak attack class feature, your existing sneak attack feature deals an extra 1d6 damage.(Sneak attack is described on page 96 of the PHB)

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#### Shadow Garrot
*3rd level Shadow Hand*
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- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** 60 ft.
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** see text
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With a subtle gesture, you carve a slice of shadow from the air around you and cast it toward your foe. It wraps around the creature’s neck and squeezes the life from it. When you initiate this maneuver, you create a strand of shadow that you hurl at a creature. Make an unarmed attack against a target within 60 feet of you. This attack deals 3d8 necrotic damage instead of its normal damage. In addition, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be unable to speak and cast spells with a somatic component.This maneuver is a magical ability.

#### Strength Draining Strike
*3rd level Shadow Hand*
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- **Initiation Action:** Attack
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** 1 round
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Liquid, black energy covers your weapon. As you strike your opponent, this material fl ows into the wound, spreads along his veins, and leaves him weakened. As part of this maneuver, make a melee attack. If this attack hits, you deal damage as normal and the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or it has to subtract 1d8 from all Stength based attack rolls, damage rolls, ability checks and saving throws for 1 minute. The creature can make a Constitution saving throw at the end of its turn. On a success, the effect ends on it.

#### Bonecrusher
*3rd level Stone Dragon*
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- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** see text
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You deliver your attack, and your enemy’s eyes jerk wide open in panic as his skeleton begins to fracture in hundreds of places. As part of this maneuver, you make a melee attack. If your attack hits, it deals an extra 4d6 points of damage. The creature struck must succeed on a Constiution saving throw or its skeletal structure becomes massively weakened. While weakened in this way any attacks against the creature critically strike on a 17, 18, 19 or 20. When the creature has been critically struck once the weakening ends, it also ends after 1 minute.
 
 
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#### Crushing Weight of the Mountain
*3rd level Stone Dragon*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
___
You crush your opponent beneath you, squeezing the life out of him as you pin him to the ground. Engaging in close combat against you is, at best, a foolish prospect. While you are in this stance, you gain the ability to constrict. You can constrict an opponent that you grapple as a bonus action, dealing bludgeoning damage equal to your initiator level to the creature.

#### Stone Dragons's Fury
*3rd level Stone Dragon*
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- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature or object
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
With a mighty war cry, you slam your weapon into a slight crack or other fault in an object. As part of this maneuver, you make a melee attack. If this attack hits a construct or an object, you deal an extra 8d10 points of damage.

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#### Lion's Roar
*3rd level White Raven*
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- **Initiation Action:** Reaction, which you take after you have reduced an enemy to 0 hit points
- **Range:** 60 ft.
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** 1 round
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You unleash a sudden battle roar as your mighty blow fells your enemy. Inspired by your example, your allies fight with renewed energy and determination. You initiate this maneuver as a reaction after you have reduced an opponent to 0 hit points. You and allies within range gain a bonus to damage rolls equal to your proficiency bonus until the end of your next turn.

#### Tactics of the Wolf
*3rd level White Raven*
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- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
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You shout orders that help coordinate your allies' efforts. This stance allows you and your allies to gain additional benefits against a flanked opponent. Under your direction, your allies coordinate their actions to a much greater degree than normal. When you flank a foe, you and allies who flank the enemy with you gain a bonus on damage rolls against that opponent equal to 1/2 your initiator level (rounded down).(To determine if a creature is flanked use the flanking rules on page 251 of the DMG)

#### White Raven Tactics
*3rd level White Raven*
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- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** 10 ft.
- **Target:** One ally
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
You can inspire your allies to astounding feats of martial prowess. In the chaos of battle, you impose the order needed for tight, effective group tactics. When you use this maneuver, target an ally, other than yourself, within 10 feet. Their initiative changes to any number you choose and they then act on their new initative as normal. If they have already acted this round, they can act again. If they act again they can only use the Attack, Dash, Dodge, or Disengage action on that turn and can not cast spells.
 
 
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### 8th level

#### Diamond Nightmare Blade
*8th level Diamond Mind*
___
- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
___
You spot a single fatal flaw in your opponent's defenses. With a single attack, you put all the force of your supreme focus into one, crippling blow. You attempt an Intelligence (Insight) or Wisdom (Insight) check as part of this maneuver, using the target creature’s AC as the DC of the check. You then make a single melee attack against your target. If your check has succeeded the attack deals four times damage.

#### Supreme Blade Parry
*8th level Iron Heart*
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- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** Self
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
___
You drop into a relaxed pose, allowing your defenses to flow naturally and easily. Your blade lashes out to absorb or deflect each attack you face, blunting the force of your enemies' blows. In battle, you enter a steady rhythm that makes you frustratingly difficult to fight. You disrupt each attack with a perfectly timed counter, leaving your foes' strikes weak and ineffectual. While you are in this stance, reduce all damage you take from weapon attacks by 10. To gain this benefit, you must be proficient with the weapon you carry. You gain this benefit while unarmed only if you have the feature that improves your unarmed attacks in any way.

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#### Swarm Tactics
*8th level White Raven*
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- **Initiation Action:** Bonus Action
- **Range:** 60 ft.
- **Target:** Self
- **Duration:** Stance
___
Your quick directions enable close teamwork between yourself and an ally. At your urging, your allies seize the initiative and work in close coordination with you to defeat an enemy. While you are in this stance, you use your tactical knowledge and mastery to improve your allies' teamwork. If you are adjacent to one or more opponents, your allies gain a bonus on attack rolls made against any of those opponents equal to your proficiency bonus.

### 9th level

#### Mountain Tombstone Strike
*9th level Stone Dragon*
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- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Melee Attack
- **Target:** One creature
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
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You slam into your foe, turning bones into dust and muscle into bloody pulp. Your foe's body is left a crippled, twisted mockery. Your attack causes damage to the structure of your foe's body. As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack. On a hit you deal damage as normal aswell as reducing the target Constitution score by 3d6, if the target Constitution score falls to or below zero they die instantly as they turn to a pile of flesh and bone. The targets maximum hit points reduce as expected with the new Constitution score. The damage to the targets ability score can be recovered by 1d6 whenevery they finish a long rest.

#### War Master's Charge
*9th level White Raven*
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- **Initiation Action:** Action
- **Range:** Melee Attack; see text
- **Target:** One creature; see text
- **Duration:** Instantaneous
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With a great battle cry, you lead your allies in a devastating charge. Fired by your commanding presence and deftly led by your supreme grasp of tactics, you and your allies form an unstoppable wedge. As part of this maneuver, you charge an opponent using up to your speed. All allies within 30 feet of you can use their reaction to also charge the same enemy. They can move up to their speed on a direct route towards the target. You and your allies do not provoke attacks of opportunity for moving as part of this charge.Every creature that charged your target (including you) can then immediately make an attack against the target. Attacks made this way have a bonus to their attack roll equal to the number of creatures that charged and deal an additional 6d6 damage. If the target was hit by two or more attacks of this charge it must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn.