An ever growing expansion of martial maneuvers to all classes. Now includes 95 martial maneuvers ranging from Tier 1 through to Tier 5 to suit your campaign level and play style.
Maneuvers range from basic techniques equivalent to the PHB Battle Master maneuvers all the way to Tier 5 abilities that approach the effects of a Wish but draw the ire of the gods.
The limit is the courage of your character.
“Nort's Universal Martial Maneuvers saves the Fighter by killing the Battlemaster. You can play any other Fighter archetype and still use the Battlemaster's maneuvers. In fact, the Battlemaster's maneuvers are made available to every character. Fighters get the most maneuvers, the most dice, and the biggest dice, and regain all of their dice on a short rest. Other martial classes get fewer maneuvers, their dice are fewer and weaker, and they only regain one die on a short rest. Casters get a few maneuvers later in the game, with a few small dice which recover one at a time on a short rest. The idea is that Fighters and other martial classes benefit from a variety of new options, while casters might pick up a couple of utility abilities for battlefield healing or a quick AC boost.
Maneuvers themselves get broken up into five tiers, with Fighters getting Tier 5 maneuvers earlier than other martial classes and casters topping out at Tier 3. The maneuvers themselves get a bunch of additions and alterations. Some maneuvers gain advantage or extra effects if you have the right skill proficiency or weapon. “ … Claytor
Whether your campaign is a gritty survivalist crapsack world, legendary mythic fantasy, or just a bit of harmless elfwank, NUMM offers a tiered system to add and swap moves and gimmicks creating fun choices that don’t break the game or lock in character builds.
This supplement gives you:
• 95 maneuvers across 5 tiers.
• Level 1-20 implementation table for all classes.
• Principles and definitions to help add maneuvers for your campaign.
• Plus optional extra tricks and stunts for creative combat resolution.
This supplement will be updated from time to time with additional maneuvers, gimmicks and ploys - particularly for social aspects of the game and higher level powers as warriors reach legendary status.
Keep the universe expanding! If you enjoy this supplement please consider reviewing or offering feedback to make updates even more universal.
Now a Best Seller! Thanks to everyone who has purchased. If you’d like a sense of what this is you can check out the Basic pwyw version, which is the old 1.1 version and lacks many improvements found in the full version.
Updates:
v1.1:
added Prerequisites; Proficiency bonuses and advantage; Weapon advantage
; The consensus of feedback from v1 was for emphasis on distinctive maneuvers for different classes. This has been approached using ability scores and class.
In addition, certain maneuvers now increase effectiveness when proficiency in certain skills can be exploited.
To a lesser extent, certain maneuvers now benefit from being employed with certain weapons.
The next round of updates will focus on new maneuvers tailored for specific classes, being the next most desired feature from feedback, as well as new maneuvers benefitting fighters in the social aspects of the game with a view towards developing the fighter as a military leader.
As always, please consider offering a review or feedback to help develop this project.
v1.2
The biggest change is simplifying TMS table to Fighter / Martial / Caster. I’ve dispensed with the half caster category, mainly to simplify the system. The rogue was I thought a little overly advantaged by the previous table. The new martial progrssion is slightly more generous than the old half caster table and slightly less generous than the old martial table.
Made additions, changes to tier ranking or adjustments to the following maneuvers:
Tier 1 Flanking
Healing Initiate
Precision Attack
Sweeping Attack
Tumbling Movement
Tier 2
Covert Strike
Crushing Surge
Tier 3
Evasive Movement
Feinting Attack
Meatgrinder
Restore Life
Unbroken
Tier 4
Arrow of Slaying
v 1.3
I’ve added a group of maneuvers from the 5e playtest material. I’ve also added abilities which inspire your troops (Mojo), perform legendary acts to boost your reputation (Legend) and at Tier 5 unleash incredible power to change the world and narrative but at great risk for the martial who dares (True Mojo).
Added (or modified) the following maneuvers:
Tier 1:
Bull Charge (modified to allow grapple)
Opportunist
Tier 2:
Composed Attack
Controlled Fall
Defensive Roll
Glancing Blow
Great Fortitude
Hurricane Strike
Iron Will
Lightning Reflexes
Tier 3:
Direct the Blow
Disrupting Attack (modified concentration check & caster does not lose spell slot )
Mojo
Tier 4:
Legend
Perpetual Leverage
Tier 5:
True Mojo
v1.4
Added a few more maneuvers for each fighting style so each has a special maneuver, plus a couple modifications.
modified:
Tier 1:
Defensive Attack
Execution
Tier 3:
Mojo
Tier 4:
Perpetual Leverage
Added:
Tier 1:
Called Shot
Fast Hands
Tank
