Martial classes get a lot of love in the new Book of Blades release for ToV. I like this: more options for martial characters, adding battle tactics (an A5E-like system of martial moves), and providing many more subclasses and options for all types of martial characters. This is a short book, at 126 pages, but packed full of options with no space wasted.
I like the battle tactics, and this is a system of training in special moves you can buy into for a talent choice, and then you get to pick a few and use them for a stamina-like pool every short rest. They give you guidelines on creating your own, so if your character has a special "trademark move," you can design it and use it in the game. Like if you wanted Zorro's "Z" sword signature move to have a practical game effect, you could make it a tactic and give it a few rules, balancing it against the others.
While I would have loved to see more tactics, being able to DIY them is just as good, and the book isn't weighed down by a massive list of optional subsystem choices.
There are also rules for warframes, magical armored suits that are an anime-like battlesuit that you can use as an optional add-on, if your campaign takes that flavor. Again, these are fun to see, and I want more, but for a niche item like this, what they give works as a taste, and I can develop my own.
This is a solid update book for the martial classes, filling in some holes while adding new possibilities.
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