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Book of Iron Might (Sword Sorcery)

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Rarely do you seem to see D20 supplements on really new and unique options for fighter types. This book is full of them. Absolutely fantastic.

The heart of the book is the combat maneuvers. It's a toolkit of options to build new maneuvers (like disarm, sunder, etc. - only they are much more varied and interesting).

Also included is a new race, the Ironborn, a golem-like race. Very tight rules and very flexible (for instance, you can choose which ability score modifiers you get).

And while I generally have little use for new feats for D20, the three new types of feats in this book are so well put together and so interesting that they have made be want to include them in my game.

Overall, a fantastic supplement.

The combat manuevers in this book are actually pretty good ideas but you can tell that there's an early 4e martial power vibe to it. But, that's ok because the martial powers are one of the best things about 4e hands down. I've been trying to come up with ways to adapt 4e martial powers to 3e fighters and rangers so this book helped inspire some creativity. Also, the ironborn is a nifty little idea and in my opinion better than the warforged of Eberron!

Overall this a good book.