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Thread: Martial Study and Adaptive Style
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2019-04-20, 11:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Martial Study and Adaptive Style
Say a fighter takes martial study to learn a maneuver, later takes a level in crusader or warblade or swordsage, and later still takes the feat adaptive style.
I believe that adaptive style refreshes the expended maneuvers of crusader or warblade or swordsage but does it also refresh a maneuver gained by martial study that is not itself part of the package of crusader or warblade or swordsage?
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2019-04-20, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Martial Study and Adaptive Style
Adaptative Style lets you change your readied maneuvers. It doesn't refresh them on its own. Maneuvers obtained through Martial Study without having any initiator class levels are 1/encounter powers, so you wouldn't refresh them when using the feat's ability.
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2019-04-20, 04:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-20, 05:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Martial Study and Adaptive Style
Unless something has changed that I am not aware of, it has been commonly accepted that Adaptive Style also recovers your maneuvers. It's highly recommended for Sword Sages to be used in that fashion since their default recovery method is so terrible.
Please note, I'm not saying this is correct or not, just that it's a common interpretation and worth looking into further to verify.A man who dies fighting with his principles intact dies in glory. To expect enemies to follow the same code of honor defiles that honor, reducing it to a set of arbitrary rules.
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2019-04-20, 06:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Martial Study and Adaptive Style
From the 3.5 FAQ:
Q: If a character uses the Adaptive Style feat (ToB 28) after he has expended some of his readied maneuvers, does he choose new readied maneuvers equal to the maximum number he can ready, or equal to the number he hasn't yet expended?
A: Using the Adaptive Style feat completely resets the character’s readied maneuvers, making them all available for use. If you're a crusader, you also reset your granted maneuvers.
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2019-04-20, 06:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Martial Study and Adaptive Style
I believe that only applies to maneuvers that have a recovery method. Those gained by non-initiators through the Martial Study feat do not have a recovery method and are instead a 1/encounter abilities.
Adaptive Style changes your readied maneuvers. But non-initiators, afaik, don't have those.
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2019-04-20, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Martial Study and Adaptive Style
If one had some maneuvers known through martial study and five levels of master of nine would the martial study maneuvers count for the damage bonus to strikes a fifth level master of nine gets?
Looking at page 38 it looks like maneuvers learned through martial study do count as readied maneuvers. Combining that with the faq I think that martial study feats would be recoverable through adaptive style (and would count for the master of nine special ability).
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2019-04-20, 08:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Martial Study and Adaptive Style
To be more accurate and get to the root of it, Adaptive Style lets you change your readied maneuvers in a different amount of time. Duly note that the maneuver gained from Martial Study can't do this, so changing the amount of time it takes to do the thing it can't do achieves nothing.
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2019-04-20, 08:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Martial Study and Adaptive Style
I think the amount of time would be that indefinite time between encounters which gets shortened to one round through adaptive style. The faq is convincing me that this trick would work.
Thanks again for all of your feedback!
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2019-04-20, 10:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Martial Study and Adaptive Style
The third paragraph second line of the Martial Study feat clearly states that:
If you have Martial Adept levels, this maneuver becomes one of your maneuvers known.
Wait what. No someone else go read that feat. It seems that it is 100% recoverable if you the feat after you gain martial adept levels but not if you take it before.
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2019-04-22, 08:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Martial Study and Adaptive Style
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Originally Posted by Readying maneuversLast edited by The Kool; 2019-04-22 at 08:07 AM.
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