Talk:Anointed Champion (3.5e Feat)

The Curious Case of the Phantasmal Feat Type

Ancestral School? What kinds of feats are they supposed to be, especially when this seems the only one. -- Eiji-kun (talk) 08:21, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Ancestral schools are defined on Champion's Might (3.5e Martial Discipline) (though they probably deserve a separate variant rule writeup). I think feats of that type are just intended to be feats that unlock an ancestral school, so there's only one of them because T.G. Oskar has only written one of them so far. I'm not sure that sort of unlock needs its own feat type though... - Tarkisflux ^Talk 14:58, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Tarkis got it right. Mostly, ancestral schools are meant to advance martial maneuvers without having to create a new discipline from scratch, because that weakens the idea of disciplines being unique (I don't oppose Falling Sky as a 10th discipline, or the existence of ranged disciplines, but it's supposed to be the Book of Nine Swords, not the Book of Sixty-Nine Swords.

That said, I placed the tag because all feats follow the exact same format as this one (access to the discipline, acts as Martial Study, plus an exclusive maneuver based on the feel of the discipline). You can choose whether it's best to keep it general, make it a Fighter feat, or whether the insistent format merits making it a separate tag. Usually, D&D design places a tag based on whether the feat follows the same format: all Incarnum feats count as essentia receptacles and the great majority grant bonus essentia; Tactical feats always provide three maneuvers, Weapon Style feats almost always require TWF and Weapon Focus on a specific weapon in order to enable an ability...it's because of this that I chose for its own tag rather than make it remain cluttered on General or Fighter.

I can basically deploy the remaining 8 feats, but they'd be orphaned until the maneuver write-up for each are complete. If you like, you could use it to allow access to existing maneuvers (such as Occult Sovereignity, for example), and follow the same format (though they're full maneuvers and not Ancestral Schools). T.G. Oskar (talk) 17:28, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

A doubt on how to read this

The paragraph "If you have no ability to replenish maneuvers, you may sacrifice a daily use of your smite ability to recover all expended maneuvers for the encounter. You gain an extra use of your smite ability per day. Furthermore, you automatically learn a new maneuver from the Champion’s Might school, as if taking the Martial Study feat." should be read as a whole, and consequently be intented that you do not gain any of these benefits if you have any ability to replenish maneuvers, or separately, and meaning that you gain the other to benefit wheter you have the ability to replenish maneuvers or not? The bluez in the dungeon (talk) 21:57, 5 December 2020 (UTC)