Can a monk exchange her bonus feats (not stunning fist but the list of combat feats that includes stuff like Catch Off-guard) for tails? If not, are fighters the only ones who qualify for the combat feat exchange, or are there other classes that get bonus combat feats?
You are talented with kitsune magic.
Benefit(s): You gain a +1 trait bonus on caster level checks for your racial spell-like abilities as well as those from the Magical Tail feat. Additionally, you can select Magical Tail as a bonus feat whenever your favored class grants you a bonus bloodline feat, combat feat, or metamagic feat instead of the normal type of feat granted by that class. You cannot exchange specific feats granted by a class or race for Magical Tail in this manner; for instance, a monk cannot exchange his Stunning Fist feat for Magical Tail.
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I read the feat as explicitly calling out which kinds of bonus feats you could take it for, so not the Monk.
Officially I'd probably say no, but I don't see any reason you couldn't house rule otherwise if that's the case, it wouldn't exactly change the balance of anything.
Gunslingers, Swashbucklers, and Warpriests also get bonus combat feats.
Would a ranger's combat style work? What about a rogue taking Combat Trick?
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If you have to make a choice between, then Nine-Tailed Scion should let you exchange that feat choice for Magical Tail. Don't think you could do this with a ranger's combat style since this is a class ability and not a bonus feat, but could be wrong. But a monk's bonus feats are free game. A fighter could indeed exchange one of his bonus combat feats for magical tail if he's a nine-tailed scion too. Now, you can't replace the monk's Evasion. If the class grants a specific feat you can't replace it.
Not that familiar with pathfinder rogues. So no idea about the combat trick question.
Could a brawler use Martial Flexibility to get an extra tail?
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Doubt it, since martial flexibility to my knowledge doesn't let you select a permanent feat. Haven't actually read the class info yet.
EDIT: After reading the class ability, I'd even more confidently say no. May be wrong, but I doubt it.
Martial Flexibility (Ex): A brawler can take a move action
to gain the benefit of a combat feat she doesn’t possess. This
effect lasts for 1 minute. The brawler must meet all the feat’s
prerequisites. She may use this ability a number of times
per day equal to 3 + 1/2 her brawler level (minimum 4 times
per day).
Notice you gain the effect of a combat feat for one minute, you don't actually gain the combat feat. As such you couldn't replace the feat with magical tail.
And really, why would you want to ruin your pants that often?
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So I don't speak for Paizo, but I'd be happy to give you my interpretation as the designer of the trait. Its written a little wonky because one of the choices is a bloodline feat while the other two are actual categorizations. That's what the trait is looking for: categories. Do the options that you can pick from allow you to choose from one or more feats of that type?
In any case, ranger is fine (but why would you want to?), monk and fighter and warpriest are 100% okay. Monk doesn't say bonus combat feat, but every feat you can choose from at every level is a combat feat. Wizard is fine, and if you're an arcanist who takes the metamixing exploit, you can take Magical Tail instead of that exploit.
Bloodline feats aren't an independent categorization; they only exist if your class grants you a bloodline feat class feature. So basically, its saying that a sorcerer or bloodrager effectively adds Magical Tail to the list of bloodline feats that the character can pick from.
Martial Flexibility doesn't grant a feat, it grants a benefit of a feat. Since you're not actually getting the feat, you can't pick Magical Tail instead of said feat. (Although an archetype that allows you to sounds super cool and totally like something I'd be willing to try in my 3PP Dynastic Races Compendium product.)
Hopefully Owen will chime in and give you something more official. (His unofficial rulings significantly outweigh mine since his could end up in an official FAQ somewhere, where I'm just a guy spouting his opinion on the forums who happened to write the rule in question. ;-P)
Thanks everyone for your answers! And thank you Alexander for clearing up the intent of the trait, even if it's unofficial it's good to know for a home game. I love the trait by the way, it's really fun and flavourful.