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ciretose wrote:

LoreKeeper wrote:

Rynjin wrote:

Ehhhh, I disagree.

Dragon Ferocity in the long run is a lot more damage. It's half your Str to all your hits (likely to be at least +3 extra by the time the Brawler can get it currently), but more importantly it's what lets you qualify for the big Power Attack boost. That's where most of your damage comes from as a Str based character, and the difference between that +4 and +6, or +6 and +9 is enormous on top of the other benefit.

Unless there is a ruling I'm not aware of, that does not work. Just because you have 1.5 Str bonus on your unarmed strikes, doesn't mean they are two-handed weapons, and as such don't get the increased Power Attack bonus.

It's a grey area, since unarmed aren't natural attacks.

Unarmed strikes are definitely not two-handed weapons, irrespective of the Str bonus applied to damage. And two-handed-ness is the condition on which Power Attack scales up.

Power attack also scales up if applied to a primary natural attack. A primary natural attack is defined as an attack that receives 1.5x Str. Since monks and brawlers have their unarmed attacks treated as natural attacks(regardless of my disagreement with ciretose about how it works otherwise), Dragon Ferocity scales up the power attack bonus for unarmed strikes.