If you're in MoMS and using both, you get the benefits of both.
I was going to say that if you're only using one, you get no benefit from the other without using it.
However, most of the style feats are worded, "You get X benefit. While using this style you get Y benefit."
I think I've been playing it wrong and your interpretation is RAW.
Look up the style feats, it is a swift action to activate a style. Normally it would be limited to one at time however the Master of Many Styles allows you to use Fuse Style and have 2 styles active after spending the two swift actions to activate them (then 3 and later 4 active @ 8th/15th).
Look up the style feats, it is a swift action to activate a style. Normally it would be limited to one at time however the Master of Many Styles allows you to use Fuse Style and have 2 styles active after spending the two swift actions to activate them (then 3 and later 4 active @ 8th/15th).
That was understood. The question was looking at the wording of a lot of styles which say up front that you get advantage X.
Period.
New Sentence-When the style is active you get advantage Y.
Based on how every other feat works, and how these feats are written, you should always be getting advantage X.
As long as the style whose benefit you are trying to access is 'active' of course you could.
@ Skylancer: The question is how the benefits are split up.
Without Crane Style being active, you still have the penalty to fighting defensively reduced to -2. Without Boar style being active, you can still do bludgeoning and slashing damage with unarmed strikes.
With Crane Style active, you also have the benefit of an additional +1 bonus for defensive actions, and with Boar style active, you also gain the ability to inflict bleed damage, in addition to the effects they have while you aren't in the appropriate style.
Anyway, by the wording, it certainly looks like the two benefits are split up. I'd say the first part seems like it would be constant, though I'm not entirely positive.
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Relevant to this, I had believed that you only benefit from style feat effects while using the style. As others say, the feats are worded such that there are passive bonuses for merely having the feat, as it doesn't say anywhere that one must be using a style to gain all the benefits. HOWEVER, I believe the RAI are that you must be using the style to gain the benefits.
How would they be 'split up' and why? They are in no way mutually exclusive. As long as conditions of the benefit are met, they are in effect after the second round swift action.
If you are using both crane and boar style then start fighting defensively the second round, you would only take the -2 penalty. If you successfully attack an opponent with an unarmed strike and later in the round hit them again with the same (let us say an AoO) the boar style would kick in and the bleed damage would occur.
I guess I don't 'understand the question' because there is no reason for it.
@ Nightskies: I looked up the same section to see if there was anything that specified the benefits only applied while you had the style active, but it doesn't say that. Considering how they're worded, it seems like it goes out of its way to specify the difference. Consider how much easier it would be for Crane Style to be written as:
"Crane: While using this style, you take only a –2 penalty on attack rolls for fighting defensively and gain an additional +1 dodge bonus to your Armor Class when fighting defensively or using the total defense action."
It is specifically broken into two sentences though, with the mention of actually using the style, and the benefits of it, being held off until the second sentence. Seems kind of odd if the first part is meant to only apply while the style is active too.
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Relevant to this, I had believed that you only benefit from style feat effects while using the style. As others say, the feats are worded such that there are passive bonuses for merely having the feat, as it doesn't say anywhere that one must be using a style to gain all the benefits. HOWEVER, I believe the RAI are that you must be using the style to gain the benefits.
This seems clear as well, the first line in each feat grants a benefit. The following lines have qualifiers of 'while using this style' and would require you to use the swift action to activate the style to gain further benefit.
This is where the MoMS starts to shine, using Fuse Style they count as being in however many style stances as their level allows and have access to all the feats with those styles as prereqs at the same time instead of having to choose which single style they are using that round.
This seems clear as well, the first line in each feat grants a benefit. The following lines have qualifiers of 'while using this style' and would require you to use the swift action to activate the style to gain further benefit.
Now you got the right question :P
MoMS, I think, was just an incidental mention in the OP for how they began wondering about this.
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No question, the RAW suggests there are passive bonuses provided by the style feats. That was part of my contribution above.
However, I think its intended that the style be active for the feat's effects to be active. The style can be inactive, which suggests that the entire style feat could be inactive when the style is not used. As written, this is not the case. RAW seems clear, and lest a dev change how its written, I would not dispute passive bonuses of style feats. FAQ'ed because I want to know if this is the intent.