Editing Crimson Pentacle Blade (section)

==Tactics==
Crimson Pentacle Blade is designed to be used as part of a group. Many charms provided by it work only when used along with other users of the style, and it is generally weaker when used alone. Note that the style does not provide any form of active defense, although there is a weak soak-booster, a defensive difficulty-raiser, and several shield-boosting effects. As such, expect to either be splitting for defense, using defenses granted by other Abilities or Styles, or rapidly dying to the first relevant assault.

Also, it must regrettably be stated that the Crimson Pentacle Blade style offers no distinct style of combat in the manner that many other published styles do. The tree branches out in styles based on the various Postures, thus lacking the unifying charm focuses found in many other styles. Still, given the charms that exist and the form weapons, a few comments can be made. Crimson Pentacle Blade tends to be used with weapons that have high damage, speed, or both relative to most weapons, but they tend to be low in accuracy, defense, and rate. To some degree, these limitations are offset by the charms. The accuracy problem is diminshed some by the Form, and the defense one by the use of shields, but the rate lacks a useful solution. Given the unarmored style and the lack of granted dodges or parries, this means that a user of Crimson Pentacle Blade would be best to invest highly in the dodge ability and Charms.