Skewering and Slashing Grace

[Taleek]

Simple question: Can skewering, or any of the other magical weapon properties made for use with panache/a swashbuckler, be placed on a weapon that a Swashbuckler uses with Slashing Grace? Or are those properties very specifically for rapiers and other light weapons?

[B. A. Robards-Debardot]

Skewering wrote:

This special ability can be placed only on light or one-handed piercing melee weapons. Weapons with this enhancement are particularly devastating in the hands of a swashbuckler.

Anytime the weapon threatens a critical hit, the wielder can spend 1 panache point as an immediate action to automatically confirm the critical hit. When the swashbuckler confirms a critical hit in this fashion, she doesn't regain panache for confirming the critical hit, though she can regain panache normally if the attack is a killing blow.

Slashing Grace wrote:

Benefit: Choose one kind of one-handed slashing weapon (such as the longsword). When wielding your chosen weapon one-handed, you can treat it as a one-handed piercing melee weapon for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a swashbuckler's or a duelist's precise strike) and you can add your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to that weapon's damage. The weapon must be one appropriate for your size.

Since a weapon enchantment is not a class ability or feat, I don't believe it can be placed on a slashing weapon, unless that weapon is also a light or one-handed piercing weapon. So Morningstar yes, dagger yes, scimitar no.

[Taleek]

B. A. Robards-Debardot wrote:

Skewering wrote:

This special ability can be placed only on light or one-handed piercing melee weapons. Weapons with this enhancement are particularly devastating in the hands of a swashbuckler.

Anytime the weapon threatens a critical hit, the wielder can spend 1 panache point as an immediate action to automatically confirm the critical hit. When the swashbuckler confirms a critical hit in this fashion, she doesn't regain panache for confirming the critical hit, though she can regain panache normally if the attack is a killing blow.

Slashing Grace wrote:

Benefit: Choose one kind of one-handed slashing weapon (such as the longsword). When wielding your chosen weapon one-handed, you can treat it as a one-handed piercing melee weapon for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a swashbuckler's or a duelist's precise strike) and you can add your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to that weapon's damage. The weapon must be one appropriate for your size.

Since a weapon enchantment is not a class ability or feat, I don't believe it can be placed on a slashing weapon, unless that weapon is also a light or one-handed piercing weapon. So Morningstar yes, dagger yes, scimitar no.

Yeah that's about what I figured. Well, does anyone think making a slashing version of this would be too game-breaking? And what would a slashing version be called? Severing? Vivisecting? :-P

[B. A. Robards-Debardot]

I don't see why it would be gamebreaking. Now, on a fauchard it might be a bit much. But if you're a swashbuckler, the majority of your damage is probably coming from Precise Strike which doesn't get multiplied on a crit. It's probably better to just get the +1 as you'll increase your hit chance on your iterative attacks.