The designers have expressed misgivings about four features of the original Warblade, feeling they go too far in making the Warblade an almost-strictly-superior 3.5 Fighter: the d12 hit die, the ability to meet feat prerequisites as a fighter, the ability to change the 'targets' for feats like Weapon Focus, and the recharge mechanic, with some doubt being expressed as to whether the latter even needed to exist.

(I also adopted a few other conventions from there, like whenever I needed or wanted a number, I made it 'two or your (in this case) Intelligence modifier, whichever is more' any time that seemed like it would yield reasonable answers.)

Speaking of which, I wanted to allow some, but limited, access to the new disciplines from Path of War.

(Path of War stances already scale a little, so I will NOT be introducing War Masteries for those disciplines.) War Mastery let me both partially fix this AND fill three of the aforementioned dead levels.

Stances don't scale and BTB you never get to change them.Originally I was just going to introduce swaps at the levels where new ones become available, I ended up going slightly more elaborate. The levels at which the original Warblade gained new stances made NO SENSE when you looked at them next to when new stances became available.I added things to fill them that might also help fix some of the things that annoy my sister regularly with this class. There were still a number of levels that, while not technically dead (you always get at least a new or upgraded maneuver), were kinda on life support.I never liked the very narrow selection of bonus feats.It probably won't make much practical difference maybe it'll help a Warblade here and there through those tough early levels. The lack of all-simple-weapon proficiency, in what are obviously meant to be a bunch of highly skilled fighters, always bugged me.

However, this would have left a few things that I was never entirely satisfied with and/or that didn't seem to mesh with the Pathfinder way of doing things: For a more minimalistic conversion, just change the levels of the bonus feats, do something about Concentration, reword Battle Skill, and Bob's your uncle. Pathfinderizing the Warblade probably didn't need to be as big a job as I made it into. If you see something that strikes you as horrible, let me know, you might very well be able to get me to change it. Everything else is feature-complete, but not necessarily 100% final. That discipline includes Punishing Stance, in which my sister's character probably logs like 90% of her combat time anyway, so it seemed like the highest priority for my own purposes. I've done the Iron Heart ones as proof of concept. I am obviously only 20% done the War Mastery abilities. Or just swipe it for their own (private, non-commercial) use, that's cool too.

I figured having done all that work, I might as well share it more widely and, in the case of this forum, with people who probably know Pathfinder better than I do and might be able to constructively criticize it. This was originally for one of the games I run, where my sister is playing a currently 9th level Warblade so it's going to get playtested, though arguably not in the most rigorous fashion. In the second post of this thread, I'm going to paste in the Warblade rewrite for Pathfinder that I've been working on.

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