

The particular nature of this preparation depends on your martial disciple class, but each one requires 10 minutes of preparation time.

Add any modifiers from prestige classes to the class’s number of maneuvers readied.Ī brief period of practice, meditation, exercise, or prayer is required to ready maneuvers. In this case, use the character’s current number of maneuvers readied. It is possible for a character to gain the Martial Training feat before entering a class that grants a progression for martial maneuvers readied. These extra maneuvers readied add to your maximum number of maneuvers readied, whether that number is determined by your class level, or by the number of times you have taken the Martial Training feats. Some prestige classes can grant a character additional maneuvers readied. If you have no levels in a martial disciple class (for example, you learned maneuvers through the line of Martial Training feats), you can ready the allotted number of maneuvers as dictated by your Martial Training feats. The number of maneuvers you can ready at once is dependent on your class and level. Only those you have readied are available for immediate use. Accordingly, you must choose your selection of readied maneuvers from all the ones you know. Conversely, maneuvers require preparation in the form of prayer, meditation, exercise, or any other similar rehearsal. Each stance you know is always available. It is not needful to ready your stances ahead of time. Stances are never expended or used up and are always available to you. Because of this, you can usually employ each of your readied maneuvers once per encounter, unless they are recovered so you may use them again. The type of action required depends on which type of martial disciple you are see your class for it’s maneuver recovery mechanism. This means you cannot use an expended maneuver again until you have rested for a brief time or perform a particular action in combat that will allow you to recover one or more expended maneuvers. However, each time you use a maneuver, you temporarily expend it: you exhaust some small portion of your energy, you’ve finished the move and are now out of position and can’t immediately resume the necessary posture, or your mental focus must be regained. Stances and maneuvers are usable as many times as you like in a day. A stance is never expended and is always available. A martial maneuver is a subtle extraordinary or supernatural effect that is temporarily expended after use. Martial abilities fall into two separate categories: stances and maneuvers (boosts, counters, and strikes). Detailed below is how the Path of War martial system works. The martial combat system introduced in Path of War uses a variety of new terms and rules.
