Product Description

New options for fighters, rangers, rogues, and warlords.

This tome focuses on the martial heroes: characters who rely on their combat talents and keen wits for survival.

This book provides new archetypal builds for the fighter, ranger, rogue, and warlord classes, including new character powers, feats, paragon paths, and epic destinies.

Martial Power is the first of a line of player-friendly supplements offering hundreds of new options for D&D characters.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #557 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-18
• Released on: 2008-11-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent!
Is it perfect? No, but what ever is? You can't please everyone. But this opened up a lot of new options for each of the martial classes. What I love about it is the amount of flavor it added, not only do you get two new builds for each class (minus the Ranger) but you get a whole host of new powers. Well done!

Very Good
Back when 3.5 was the edition-of-the-time, supplement books tended to contain some good extra material, some less-useful stuff, and then large quantities of annoying fluff. There was material, and in some cases that material was definitely worth paying for, but none of them had good material packed all that densely into their pages.

Martial Power is the polar opposite of that. There's a tiny bit of less-useful stuff, almost no fluff, and an IMMENSE quantity of very useful material to expand the martial classes found in the 4E PHB. Some elements weren't entirely as I'd hoped (the Battlerager concept for the fighter seems a tad superfluous given that the Barbarian's coming out in March, and I was hoping for slightly more 2-Weapon options, but oh well) but overall, this is another indication that Wizards have finally managed to pull their act together and start producing stuff that is DEFINITELY worth buying.

Nut Shell Description
Is the book worth it for martial classes?
yes, the book offers twelve new paragons for each class, which some are race specific. The book also offers a number of very useful feats that are built around each class/race. In a nut shell Martial powers does not turn 4th ed. into an overpowered campaign as 3.0ed supplements habitually did. The paragon classes, feats, and new builds are all balanced and add more flavor to the game.
Special note: this book greatly enhances the multiclassing feat from the player's handbook.