Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Tobias_the _invincible 08-05-04, 06:12 AM	Inspired by the setting itself, one of my players playing a swashbuckler, the new dragonshards article, and watching pirates of the carribean one too many times I decided to make this thread. What are some swahbuckling manuevers that would fit right into Eberron? Here are some starters: 1) Finishing a drink in the middle of a fight. 2) Kissing a swooning fan in the middle of the fight 3) rolling down some stairs on a barrel. 4)jumping on a table, catching the opponents chin in doing so. 5) Fencing with a long piece of cutlery
weezoh 08-05-04, 05:27 PM	6. parrying with your tankard while engaged in melee (extra points for not spilling -- also appropriate for a joint of meat)
footdownatgreen 08-05-04, 06:54 PM	#7 using an opponent to fight another opponent that walked in on your battle
The_Epic_Paladin 08-05-04, 09:26 PM	8. Cutting the chandelier rope so it falls on top the enemy. 9. Cutting the drapes so the fall on the enemy 10. Jumping off a balcony and on to your horse
WizO_Sith 08-05-04, 09:51 PM	11. Hitting/putting the moves on a non-combatant while in the middle of a duel. 12. Swinging across a room on a chandelier. 13. Pausing in the middle of a fight to bow or curtsey to an attractive member of the appropriate gender. 14. Making up spontaneous rhyme to embarrass/enrage an opponant (read Act 1 of Cyrano de Burgerac for the best example of this ever).
Teslacoil1138 08-05-04, 10:26 PM	15. Cut open the opponent's blouse (if a woman) or pants (if a man) to embarrass them during a swordfight 16. Wear a ridiculously fancy hat with a feathered plume, and take it off in greetings to any and every woman you meet 17. Fight with one hand behind your back 18. Fight while humming and doing a jig
Tobias_the _invincible 08-05-04, 11:24 PM	19. conversationally talking with an ally in the middle of a fight.
SpyGuy 08-05-04, 11:27 PM	20. Rolling underneath a table to avoid an attack, only to find a coward already hiding there. (Possibly the group's wizard)
LucRivNor 08-05-04, 11:51 PM	#21 Make commentaries & look at another fight while fighting #22 Make an unarmed disarm attempt (you grab the weapon) and give it back to your opponent after
SpyGuy 08-06-04, 12:07 AM	23. While fighting an enemy, a barmaid or other female character will contribute by hitting the enemy in the back of the head with a bottle or a mug.
The Pinata 08-06-04, 12:55 AM	24. Sing a merry song while dueling. 25. Spill crap of all sorts on the ground to trip people. (Evil Villian Move)Take the Swashbuckler's girl and use her as a human shield
crazysamaritan 08-06-04, 02:47 AM	27) Oop! I'm not right-handed, I'm left-handed! 28) Use TWF to get shield bonus while using a leg of turkey. 29) After eating the turkey leg, accidently switch, and try to attack with the turkey, and eat the sword. 30) Use tumble to go around your opponent, fighting full-Defense. 31) Keep doing this and taunt your opponent, "I'm over here!" "Now I'm here!" "Missed me!" "Behind you again!"
EberronJunkie 08-06-04, 04:23 AM	Give your opponent THE EYE! ;) Hang upside down from a chandelier, fireing off crossbow bolts in one hand, while parrying with the other.
Ectoplasmoid 08-06-04, 05:15 AM	34. Jump on top of a standing ladder and ride it across a gap or down onto an opponent. 35. "You will remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow.":D 36. Using your whip as a rope, hitting an overhead protrusion, wrapping the whip around it, and swinging feet first into your enemy. 37. use whatever furniture/appliances you can as improvised weapons/shields (e.g. opening a cupboard to block a sword blow, and then slamming it shut to disarm or on somebody's wrist. 38. Pulling your opponent's shirt over his head and proceeding to beat him upside said head
Lasrifriir 08-06-04, 12:54 PM	39. You grab your opponent's toupee during combat, and after making some witty line about it, you use it as a diversionary weapon. 40. After easily disarming your opponent, you give him one the spare swords tied around your waist. 41. Yawn/check your dragonshard watch while fighting 20+ foes. 42. Fight on a raised surface, such as a large table, and kick the objects on it onto your opponent's face. 43. Fight with a sword and a cloak (as a secondary/diversionary weapon, billowing it around you as you attack, wrapping it around your opponent's face like a garrote and try to suffocate him, etc.)
hfolkense 08-06-04, 04:39 PM	44.- In a bar, stop for the bartender to serve more ale while figthing defensive. 45.-Take a sip of it watch the enemy, and say "what? did you want some ale too? take it", then spill it on the enemy's face 46.-Said it tasted like pee! 47.-drop a coin on the bartender
Gurv 08-06-04, 08:08 PM	#48: Talk about how you won previous duels against more skilled opponents, demonstrating the moves you used as you mention each one. #49: Switch weapons with your foe. #50: Throw things (weapons, potions, etc) into the air, and perform actions while waiting for them to fall. Catch them and use them.
Tobias_the _invincible 08-06-04, 08:33 PM	51. Wear bladed boots and fight with them while perfroming a handstand. 52. Throw 4 daggers pinning an opponent to a wall, throw one just under the opponents groin and say "Damn, I missed". 53. Juggle some weapons, attcaking with a different one each turn.
Save_vs_DM 08-06-04, 09:41 PM	54. After getting struck in combat utter "Guess I should have parried instead of dodge." 55. As a friend hangs from the gallows throw your sword (Throw Anything feat) and sever the noose. 56. Fight while sitting a chair with legs crossed, talking to a bar patron. 57. Slice the tap off a large barrel of ale, spilling the contents over the floor. Be sure to refill your ale tankard as you do so. 58. After the opponent narrowly misses with a crossbow shot, pull a cross/holy symbol/heriloom that is badly dented from under your shirt, look upward, and utter a short prayer. 59. Take Deflect Arrows so that you can parry arrows and bolts with your rapier. 60. After said villian has captured lovely woman to use as a shield, your duelist buddy slips behind the bad guy with his blade "Now that was unsporting! Let her go, you hermaphrodidic weasel!" Cheers, Save-vs-DM
The Pinata 08-06-04, 10:30 PM	61. Before the rogue can fix any of the traps in the dungeon hall, charge headlong down it, and be the only party member to survive. (Did this once! :angel: ) 62. Stick his sword into some sort of food or wood, and hit the opponent with it.
law 08-07-04, 12:05 AM	63. Stick your sword into the ground and kick all your opponents onto the ground. The ask a friend if you over did it. 64. Hit an opponent with a crossbow then stab another with the dagger thats attached to it. The say I like this.
Falaer 08-07-04, 12:15 AM	64. Drink a potion of spider climb and fight off of ceiling/walls :cool:
AJ_Impy 08-07-04, 07:04 PM	65. Use furniture as improvised weapons.
Sabre_Spell_Blader 08-08-04, 06:41 PM	66. Send the chandellier crashing down on the enemy.
Galen_Michael 08-08-04, 07:19 PM	We're actually on number 68, as there were two ideas numbered 64. But that's a lame excuse for a post, so... 68. Slide between your opponent's legs. Smile and say "hello" as you whack him in the jimmy. 69. After being disarmed, reach blindly for an improvised weapon and come up with something completely useless, like a feather duster. Fight with it anyway.
justmike 08-08-04, 08:28 PM	70: "my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die."
Latif Khan 08-08-04, 08:53 PM	71: throw your weapon at your opponent, then follow up, by throwing anything u can grab at him, as fast as possible. 72: do lots of acrobatics onto furniture (flick-flacks, cartwheels ...) 73: run up the wall, jump off, land behind the evol guy and stab him. 74: pick em up and shove em along the bar, scattering the drinks across the room.
Gilgiga of the Hunt 08-09-04, 06:07 PM	75. After an opponet lunges, but misses, catch his arm in your armpit. Hold him there as you punch repeaditly with your hilt. (gracefull repose, useing an improved grapple as your AOO). 76. At more or less radom intervals hack at objects (statues, plants, suport columns) wildly until they are destroyed. 77. After defeating a dozen or so lesser goonies, the boss steps up to chalange. Quickdraw wand of Lighting bolt BAM! 78. Might take some liberal bending of the rules. But fight the badguy that's on the other side of your partner, he does the same. A sort of reverse flanking.
Tobias_the _invincible 08-10-04, 04:47 AM	79. (For female swashbucklers) After a male opponent disarms you, slap him and take his weapon. 80. Pull out various items from your coat (holy symbol, glasses, book), blocking your opponents strike with each one, throwing them away before finally pulling out your rapier and saying "so that's where I put it".
okaynowa 08-10-04, 08:02 AM	81. With rapier, make a swipe at row of candles (or opponent), apparently without leaving a mark. When taunted for missing, breathe delicately on candles (or opponent), causing them to collapse, neatly cut in half.
Terraneaux 08-11-04, 05:16 AM	82) Take dartboard off pub wall for use as an improvied shield. 83) Spit ale in opponent's face 84) Throw forks and knives like throwing daggers. 85) While fighting on ship, hit opponent repeatedly with the handles on the tiller.
Save_vs_DM 08-11-04, 05:36 AM	86. You killed my father. Your a** is mine (courtesy of Hellboy). 87. Disguise yourself as a member of the opposite sex, charm the bad guy, then reveal your true nature (great for changelings). 88. (for the damsel in not so much distress) when the bad guy grabs you, subtly slip a dagger an inch from his goodies and utter "let me go or you sing soprano for the rest of your life." 89. When an opponent attacks you with a whip or spiked chain, grab it in mid air and gradually wind it around your arm as you pull the opponent nearer to you. 90. Use a whip to snuff out the candles lighting the room, plunging the room into darkness. Only 11 more to go! Cheers, Save vs DM
Latif Khan 08-11-04, 07:28 AM	91: Have daggers in your boots, sleeves, on ur back, in ur hat, in.. on.. and simply everywhere. (be shure to get quickdraw feat.) 92: Fire two handcrossbows in two different directions, killing two bad guys, in the best case making them drop from the roof of nearby buildings, with a scream 93: Make use of the rules for the "faceless horde" found in a conversion of feng-shui to D20, for those nice cinematic fights, where the players best up scores of enemys, without even getting a bruse.
cortani 08-11-04, 08:13 AM	94) Show up at every fight with an empty scabbard. And the disarm feat :smirk:
LelolithR 08-11-04, 12:44 PM	95) "The Tarrasque still only counts as one"
coolraygun 08-11-04, 01:56 PM	96) when confronted by a monk wave your swords around in front of you while making strange noises... (ala 3 musketeers) 97) say "you call that a sword? this is a sword" 98) swing into battle on a tapestry 99) when confronted by a warforged or a knight in full plate, pat your clothing, and then say "oh darn, i forgot my can opener, guess this will have to do..." and draw your sword. 100) after you kill your first opponent in a battle, say "alright, who's next?"
Elemental 08-11-04, 08:31 PM	101: Stab your weapon into the floor, then spin round on it, doing a circle kick that knocks away six enemies. 102: Grab a civilian, to pull them out of danger. Then, holding them by the arms, heave them up so their feet hit the charging enemy. 103: Bull rush you and your enemy off a drop. When you hit the bottom, keep right on fighting. 104: Throw a vial of alchemist's fire or other grenade weapon, and shoot it in mid air. 105: Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Thrown Small Humanoids. :angel: (and some for spellcasters or psions) 106: Fire a missile spell (Energy Bolt, Acid Arrow, Magic Missile, etc) at your enemy, and apparently miss. He sneers at you, and then the piece of scenery you just dislodged falls on him. 107: Polymorph or wild-shape into something big and humanoid. Grab a piece of scenery (barrel, cart), and go mook bowling. 108: When surrounded by enemies--Protection From Fire, followed by a ground-zero Fireball. Blade 2 has a good visual image for the aftermath of this tactic.
jus10 08-11-04, 09:21 PM	109.) While resting your drink on the rail of a shifting ship fight off your enermy, then when the ship shifts back, pick your drink back up. 110.) Leap from one story of a building and use your whip/rope to swing into the window below in one smoothe step.
hfolkense 08-11-04, 09:37 PM	111)When in a tomb, start throwing part of skeletons away, only to find one skull is from a member of your family, and keep it after using it to block some blow. Say "man thatt was uncle MAthew!, how you dare?"
EvilMasterOfEvilDice 08-12-04, 02:43 AM	112. kick male opponent in the crotch. take opponent's weapon and strike in the crotch. take all of opponents weapons and strike in the crotch. repeat with all manner of objects. 113. (for razorclaws shifters) disarm your opponent and start tickling them. then transform. 114. grab keg, lift it up, attach to opponents nostril and turn on. 115. with a mace, aim for their head, DELIBERATELY miss, and crush their foot.
Lorehammer 08-12-04, 02:52 AM	Originally posted by WizO_Sith 14. Making up spontaneous rhyme to embarrass/enrage an opponant (read Act 1 of Cyrano de Burgerac for the best example of this ever). I once DM'd a group that had a paladin, Sir Philip Beckwith, as part of the group. He was taunted by his nemesis, a Quasit, for about six levels. This was in the original Temple of Elemental Evil. It started out when the diminutive creature attacked the party when the (paladin) was first level (they found a secret door very early on). The party retreated from the attack. From then on the Quasit followed the party around invisibly, taunting the paladin with this rhyme: I have the power to smite Instead I run in fright. I'm the mighty paladin I run away from little men. He stayed just out of reach of the paladin's longsword. He was always showing up at just the wrong time, like when the party was trying to be stealthy. He'd appear and yell out: Whatcha sneakin' round for? Didja know yer mother's a [censored] Oh, I'm the mighty paladin. I run away from little men. It was great fun. Eventually the paladin caught him and killed him, but it was fun for about a year. That was about ten years ago now. Now, in our group, whenever someone does something cowardly, someone inevitably shouts out: I'm the mighty paladin. I run away from little men. (You have to say it in this high-pitched kenderish/quasitish voice).... Anyway...
Lorehammer 08-12-04, 02:57 AM	I guess I digressed on that last post, eh? So, did you ever notice how everyone seems to create an Aragorn-in-Bree sort of character who wears a dark cloak with the hood pulled over casting shadows on his face.. blah, blah, blah... All those people wearing capes? A swashbuckler would have a field day with all that cloth. You know, pull the opponent's cape over his head and beat him with any nearby blunt object, pin him to walls by the cape, set it on fire, cut it into ribbons.
Darkest90 08-12-04, 03:29 AM	116) I know everyone has said to use furniture as improvised weapons, but not how. So: While fighting, jump ontop of a chair or stool and, with your legs, kick the chair towards your opponents legs, while jumping to another! This could also be done with barrels. 117) Hang onto a chandelier, and while you are hoisting yourself up, fight with your legs. 118) If you are fighting on a ledge, jump off and hang onto the ledge to dodge a charge or blow, causing your opponent to fall off! 119) Kick spare weapons or shields on the ground up to your spare hand, to use duel weapons. When you've been disarmed, get a new weapon with this move. 120) Use an overhanging rope or some-such thing to swing down when you attack your enemy. Keep on attacking while you swing, each time you pass you attack. When the rope slows down, drop down on your opponent.