Tome of Battle

Tome of Battle
Title Tome of Battle PDF eBook
Author Richard Baker
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2006
Genre Dungeons and Dragons (Game)
ISBN 9780786939220

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The nine martial disciplines presented in this supplement allow a character with the proper knowledge and focus to perform special combat maneuvers and nearly magical effects. Information is also included on new magic items and spells and new monsters and organizations.

Weapons of Legacy

Weapons of Legacy
Title Weapons of Legacy PDF eBook
Author Bruce R. Cordell
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2005
Genre Dungeons and Dragons (Game)
ISBN 9780786936885

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For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada and Greenland, development here threatens to upset the delicate balance between their communities, land and wildlife.

Tome of Magic

Tome of Magic
Title Tome of Magic PDF eBook
Author Matthew Sernett
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2006
Genre Dungeons and Dragons (Game)
ISBN 9780786939091

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This volume introduces three new magic subsystems for the D&D game. They introduce new base classes and spellcasting mechanics, and include new feats, prestige classes, magic items, and spells.

Path of War Expanded

Path of War Expanded
Title Path of War Expanded PDF eBook
Author Christopher Bennett
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages 190
Release 2016-06-09
Genre
ISBN 9781533413918

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The Path of War continues onward! Inside the pages of this tome, your options for martial characters more than double! Within Path of War Expanded you will find more maneuvers, stances, and feats for your existing martial disciples as well as a host of new options! There are new classes, archetypes, martial traditions, and even the new class template that provides a way to use a single archetype for different character classes. Path of War Expandedcontains: Three new base classes, from the ill-omened harbinger, to the psychic zealot, and finally the arcane mystic who all mix supernatural elements into their martial combat styles. Nine new martial disciplines like Cursed Razor, Eternal Guardian, and Sleeping Goddess A host of archetypes for the three original classes from Path of War and the three new classes from Path of War Expanded Martial archetypes for core and psionic classes, including options for the Aegis, Dread, and Marksman classes from Ultimate Psionics Class templates, which provides archetypes that work across multiple classes Martial style feats for all the different disciplines, including those originally found in Path of War like Iron Tortouise and Solar Wind More than a dozen new martial traditions And new and optional rules and clarifications to martial combat that will take your martial characters to a whole new level! Come and enjoy the spoils of battle with Path of War Expanded! This version of Path of War Expanded has black & white interior.

The Verdict of Battle

The Verdict of Battle
Title The Verdict of Battle PDF eBook
Author James Q. Whitman
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 329
Release 2012-10-31
Genre History
ISBN 0674071875

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Today, war is considered a last resort for resolving disagreements. But a day of staged slaughter on the battlefield was once seen as a legitimate means of settling political disputes. James Whitman argues that pitched battle was essentially a trial with a lawful verdict. And when this contained form of battle ceased to exist, the law of victory gave way to the rule of unbridled force. The Verdict of Battle explains why the ritualized violence of the past was more effective than modern warfare in bringing carnage to an end, and why humanitarian laws that cling to a notion of war as evil have led to longer, more barbaric conflicts. Belief that sovereigns could, by rights, wage war for profit made the eighteenth century battle’s golden age. A pitched battle was understood as a kind of legal proceeding in which both sides agreed to be bound by the result. To the victor went the spoils, including the fate of kingdoms. But with the nineteenth-century decline of monarchical legitimacy and the rise of republican sentiment, the public no longer accepted the verdict of pitched battles. Ideology rather than politics became war’s just cause. And because modern humanitarian law provided no means for declaring a victor or dispensing spoils at the end of battle, the violence of war dragged on. The most dangerous wars, Whitman asserts in this iconoclastic tour de force, are the lawless wars we wage today to remake the world in the name of higher moral imperatives.

The Echo of Battle

The Echo of Battle
Title The Echo of Battle PDF eBook
Author Brian McAllister Linn
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 321
Release 2009-07-01
Genre History
ISBN 0674033523

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From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, the wars of the United States have defined the nation. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts in order to prepare for the next clash of arms. In the echo of battle, the army develops the strategies, weapons, doctrine, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee a future victory. In the face of radically new ways of waging war, Brian Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie the army's many visions of warfare up to the present day. He explores the army's forgotten heritage of deterrence, its long experience with counter-guerrilla operations, and its successive efforts to transform itself. Distinguishing three martial traditions--each with its own concept of warfare, its own strategic views, and its own excuses for failure--he locates the visionaries who prepared the army for its battlefield triumphs and the reactionaries whose mistakes contributed to its defeats. Discussing commanders as diverse as Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Colin Powell, and technologies from coastal artillery to the Abrams tank, he shows how leadership and weaponry have continually altered the army's approach to conflict. And he demonstrates the army's habit of preparing for wars that seldom occur, while ignoring those it must actually fight. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, The Echo of Battle provides an unprecedented reinterpretation of how the U.S. Army has waged war in the past and how it is meeting the new challenges of tomorrow.

Path of War

Path of War
Title Path of War PDF eBook
Author Chris Bennett
Publisher
Pages
Release 2014-09-08
Genre
ISBN 9780989892575

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Let slip the hounds of war!Make martial combat more interesting with the Path of War, a maneuver-based combat system designed and playtested to work side-by-side with all of the standard classes.Path of War offers new base classes, feats, archetypes, and much more. Want to use the maneuver-based combat system with your standard Pathfinder Roleplaying Game classes like the fighter or rogue? Feats allow you to do just that.Inside of the pages of Path of War, you will find:Three new base classes - the stalker, warder, and warlordDozens of new feats for both the new classes and the core classesThirteen martial disciplines full of dozens of maneuversArchetypes for the new base classes, as well as two psionic archetypesSix new prestige classesMartial traditions to help you introduce maneuver-based combat to your campaignNow martial characters get to have fun, too, with the Path of War!