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Mark, I have a few questions about the Brawler:

1) "A brawler’s unarmed strike is treated as both a manufactured weapon and a natural weapon for the purpose of spells and effects that modify either manufactured weapons or natural weapons."
"A monk’s unarmed strike is treated as both a manufactured weapon and a natural weapon for the purpose of spells and effects that enhance or improve either manufactured weapons or natural weapons."
What is the difference between "modify" and "enhance or improve"?

2) Blade Lash targets your melee weapon, can I use this spell to unarmed strike of a brawler or a monk?

3) If I get Martial Flexibility twice from Brawler and Warsighted, can I get two combat feats by two move actions? Can I use one of these feats to meet a prerequisite of the second feat?

4) In PFS "human" is not a legal choice for the Dedicated Adversary feat, but a human ethnicity such as "Ulfen" is legal. Then if I use Martial Flexibility to get Dedicated Adversary feat, how can I know the ethnicity of the enemy?

5) If I use Brawler`s Flurry by a two-Handed weapon, what's the penalty on melee attack rolls?

Crest wrote:

Mark, thank you for the answer above.Here are two more questions about the Furious Finish feat.

1, Can I declare to use the feat after hit? If not, when the attack didn't hit, will I end rage and become fatigued?
2, The feat says "when you use the Vital Strike feat", does it apply to Improved Vital Strike or Greater Vital Strike feats?

1) The choice is made when you are rolling damage, which despite best practice for quick combat, is technically something you don't do until after you hit, so yes.

2) Weirdly, and I had to check this to notice, IVS and GVS don't refer to their parent but instead reiterate all the rules with more dice added on, particularly odd since it would save a lot of unnecessary words to handle it the other way around. However, due to this fact, technically you are not using the Vital Strike feat when using its stronger versions. Nonetheless, it's pretty likely that the author of Furious Finish forgot that IVS and GVS were written in this unusual way, as it seems very unlikely to intend to block off these uses. Nonetheless, most other feats use tighter language (for instance, the Vital Strike feats in Advanced Class Guide all specify they work with VS, IVS, and GVS).

What happens if make a crit while using Furious Finish? Is the critical damage maximized?

Mounted Combat says "Your mount acts on your initiative count as you direct it", if the rider can acts in surprise round, how does the mount？

Hi Mark, Daring Teamwork by Guiding Blade wrote "A guiding blade regains panache whenever an ally reduces a creature to 0 or fewer hit points, instead of when she herself does so"，does need her ally using a Light or One-Handed Piercing Melee Weapon like a Swashbuckler？