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Don't you think Brutal Blade sounds better than Brutality Blade?

Other than that, I think everything is awesome. Loved the Superboy nod.

Is that a problem? It looks like a deliberate design choice.

I've just read the April's Fools article on DSP and I'm still laughing. Well played, Andreas. ^^

Heh, I can already picture Gareth screaming in frustration because Anguish compared him to SKR.

I'd like to request a few maneuvers for PoW2, if that's okay:
1) Spinning your weapon so fast it catches fire
2) Punching someone into the air, jumping after them, doing a combo and smashing them in the ground (probably a series of maneuvers)
3) Hadouken!
4) Spinning in place so fast you create a vacuum that brings opponents closer to you
5) A powerful stomp that deals damage and creates difficult terrain
6) Clapping your hands together to create a stunning/deafening shockwave
7) Some way to double jump
8) Punching your weapons to increase momentum
9) Using cannonballs as (useful) improvised weapons
10) Wearing a devil's skin and becoming more powerful (I'll never stop requesting this!)

Yo dawg.
Where's mah subscription? :D

Jiggy wrote:

I personally think Spell Combat is overrated; heck, my wife just straight-up doesn't use it and still does great with her magus.

It's really only great for getting pseudo-pounce with blade force hook and bladed-dash. And possibly to help a bit with self buffing.

Honestly, both spell combat and spellstrike could be feats (with medium prereqs) and I wouldn't even expect all Eldritch Knights taking them both.

Action economy rules the game. Spell combat whips action economy around like no one's business. One of the best abilities in the make.

You can buy Path of War from the Paizo store or DriveThru RPG. It's essentially PF ToB.

Lots of good stuff, guys. Really liked Borris. Herzog looks like a good idea for the first match. Probably going to use Heinrich on the second fight, then add two fights with 7th/8th level characters and then for the final against a 9th level character (I'm considering using a dervish bard for this one).

The new spell list sucks. 4th level casters need early access to spells. They were better off with the Magus spell list.

Go play 4e and enjoy your boring boring balanced game.
Simulationist games sacrifice balance for theme and internal consistency. In my book that's a good thing.

I don't aim to kill any players, but rather aim for every combat encounter to be a close-run thing with plenty of tension. Most of the encounters I set up result in one or two players going into negatives with a lot of heavy wounds all around. So we've had only one absolutely final death in several years of play.

I understand your point of view, but I don't think every encounter is supposed to be very tense and dangerous. Every once in a while, I think the PCs deserve an easy fight. That's when they notice how much more powerful they have become and when they get to try weird stuff that they wouldn't try in other situations.