1. Only if you gained the sneak attack class feature by taking a level of, e.g., rogue. A strangler doesn't have the sneak attack class feature, which is a prerequisite for sap adept. It would work after that, though.
2. See 1.
3. See 1.
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You qualify for Sap Adept and Sap Master (when your die is +3d6) but can never actually use them because you are not dealing bludgeoning, nonlethal damage. You are doing un typed precision damage. Your strangle does not count as bludgeoning, as it isn’t explicitly described as bludgeoning.
You do not qualify for Accomplished Sneak Attacker until you take levels in a class that rants you the Sneak Attack class feature (which Strangle doesn’t count as, as it isn’t explicitly called out as counting.
Snakebite Striker Brawler has the Sneak Attack Class Feature, though. I was just looking at the 2 Archetypes. I'm pretty sure he can take both: be a Snakebite-Strangler. The OP is already level 2, but if he hasn't adventured yet as a level 2 PFS Character, he can just take the 2nd Archetype without retraining.
You can take both and I was going to suggest it myself until I noticed that Snakebite Striker replaces Martial Flexibility with sneak attack, making the whole thing kind of moot.
But he deals sneak attack damage while maintaining a grapple.
Doesn't matter. The prerequisite for the feats isn't "can deal sneak attack damage"--it's "sneak attack class feature". Strangler doesn't get that class feature.
Another Problem is that you can only use Sap Master against opponents that are Flat Footed. Pinned isn't Flatfooted. To make opponents Flatfooted, you have to take something like Shatter Defenses and Cornudgeon Smash. A problem with your character is that Stranglers don't get Unarmed Strike, so you need some other way of doing Bludgeoning Damage. I have some ideas, but answer me, Spermy, have you adventured with your character past level 2? Actually, the fact that you don't get Unarmed Strike is a heck of a thing: the fact that you don't get Unarmed Strike means you don't have the Improved Unarmed Strike Feat. And without the IUS Feat, you can't take Improved Grapple. But you get a special ability that depends upon Grappling and Pinning? Stranglers suck!
you are not dealing bludgeoning, nonlethal damage.He's doing Grappling Damage, isn't he? That's normally Bludgeoning, and it can be nonlethal. I think he's good there.
Only if you gained the sneak attack class feature by taking a level of, e.g., rogue. A strangler doesn't have the sneak attack class feature, which is a prerequisite for sap adept. It would work after that, though.That is a subtle point! Stranglers get +1d6 Sneak Attack Damage when they achieve a Pin, but that is not the same thing as the Sneak Attack Damage Class Feature.
Snakebite Striker Brawler has the Sneak Attack Class Feature, though. I was just looking at the 2 Archetypes. I'm pretty sure he can take both: be a Snakebite-Strangler. The OP is already level 2, but if he hasn't adventured yet as a level 2 PFS Character, he can just take the 2nd Archetype without retraining.
That being said, taking levels in Rogue or something is not bad advice.
That would work! Saves you from having to multiclass.
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you are not dealing bludgeoning, nonlethal damage.He's doing Grappling Damage, isn't he? That's normally Bludgeoning, and it can be nonlethal. I think he's good there.
“Grappling Damage” doesn’t exist. When you grapple to damage, you are dealing damage as if with your US or natural attack. When a Strangler pins, they are getting bonus untyped damage not associated with the damage types of your US or natural attack. The distinction matters. So only when the Strangler grapples to damage could they make use of something that requires bludgeoning damage.
I realize after looking st the class feature again that they get the bonus Sneak Attack damage on a grapple to damage or a grapple to pin. I originally stated Sap Adept would never work but now I see that it works when the strangler takes the “damage” option on grapples.
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You qualify for Sap Adept and Sap Master (when your die is +3d6) but can never actually use them because you are not dealing bludgeoning, nonlethal damage. You are doing un typed precision damage. Your strangle does not count as bludgeoning, as it isn’t explicitly described as bludgeoning.
You do not qualify for Accomplished Sneak Attacker until you take levels in a class that rants you the Sneak Attack class feature (which Strangle doesn’t count as, as it isn’t explicitly called out as counting.
Long story short: Precision damage is of the type the weapon does.
Lots of forum discussions about this. Particularly if the weapon is elemental in source. Look it up. So Sap Adept works perfectly fine to add to sneak attack from unarmed, as well as Sap Master doubling the nonlethal dice...
In order to get the Sneak Attack damage, you MAY need to get class levels that give the actual ability, versus "Strangle" that does "sneak attack" type damage.
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Yes. You can have both the Snakebite Striker and Strangler Archetypes at the same time.I might have been mistaken. Both Archetypes change your Class Skills. Somebody was saying that is a dealbreaker.
Correct, RAW, which is what PFS uses, if they both alter skills in some way (even adding per the FAQ on the subject) then you can't stack them both. So Snakebite striker and strangler are OUT for PFS. Of course, it's a dumb rule that if one class archetype gives you a free skill it stops you from stacking an archetype that alters some other skill (it is still written that way, though, however dumb). And in home games you can do away with whatever dumb rules you don't want to play by.