One With the Blade (3.5e Maneuver)

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One With the Blade

Diamond Mind, Anima River (Stance) [X-Discipline]
Level:	6
Prerequisite:	Two Maneuvers, which can come from either the Anima River or Diamond Mind Disciplines, Masterwork Body or similar, Weapon Focus
Initiation Action:	1 swift action
Range:	Personal
Target:	You
Duration:	Stance
Saving Throw:	N/A

Through both practice and magic, you channel all of your technique into your weapon, and let slip the dogs of war.

As long as you have Weapon Focus in whatever weapon you are holding, you give it all the best qualities of your unarmed strike. Enhancements, feats/class features, and materials stack. You may decide whether to use the weapon's crit range, or your fists' crit range. This goes double for damage dice, and such. You may count the weapon as being a version of your unarmed strike whenever convenient. The weapon can also have the properties of the largest weapon you can comfortably hold, in the way you hold said weapon(for example, you can keep something smaller if you want to keep it finessible, or one-hand instead of two hand it), acquiring the proper increases to range and damage as your soul flows through it and allows you to strike much harder and further.

This is, needless to say, a supernatural maneuver.

Special: If you're a Codex Swordsage, who gets Unarmed Combatant and Many Weapon Focus, can easily pick one of the prerequisite disciplines, and if you have a really nice unarmed strike, take a moment to ask yourself, "Why don't I have this stance?"

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