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« on: October 09, 2014, 06:56:52 PM »
Enshadowed Swordsage
Choose three Disciplines other than Shadow Hand. You are restricted from learning those Disciplines's Maneuvers or Stances.
You may learn 1 Mystery in place of a Maneuver every time you would gain knowledge of new Maneuvers. Mysteries learned this way are treated as Maneuvers for the purposes of usage and can be expended and readied as any normal Maneuvers would. All Mysteries learned this way are treated as Strikes. Any Fundamentals learned this way are treated as Boosts. The DC for Mysteries learned in this manner are calculated as 10+Mystery lvl+Int mod.
Utilizing Mysteries as Maneuvers is more difficult than learning to cast them. As of such you can only learn up to 6th level Mysteries as Maneuvers, gaining usage of higher level Mysteries at key points. Your effective Shadow Caster level for the purposes of the effects of Mysteries learned in this manner is equal to your Initiator level.
At first level you only have access to 1st level Mysteries; At level 3 you have access to 2nd level Mysteries; At level 6 you have access to 3rd level Mysteries; At level 9 you have access to 4th level Mysteries; At level 13 you have access to 5th level Mysteries; At level 16 you have access to 6th level Mysteries.
This is based off of the Adaptation section under the Swordsage class entry in tome of Battle that states you may learn certain spells in place of maneuvers; unlike that feature, this Alternate Class feature is tweaked so that you can keep many of the Swordsage's key features and still gain interesting abilities.