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I was looking through the topics, but didn't find the answer to my question.
So, let's see, we have a blade that's hidden in the cane. We can release it as a swift action. So, we have a blade in one hand and a cane in another. Here are the questions:
1. Is the cane part of the sword cane an improvised weapon? Can it benefit from Power Attack, or it's a light weapon (like scabbard) and benefit from Weapon Finesse?
2. If the sword cane wasn't released, does it count as an improvised weapon? Does it benefit from Weapon Finesse?

If monk is forced to block his flurry of blows (i.e. by wearing armor), and want to make additional unarmed attack, what will be the penalty for that attack? The problem is in this rule:

I can see next decisions:
1. Additional unarmed attack takes off-hand penalty for light weapon (-8) for attack rolls, and full Strength bonus on damage rolls.
2. Additional unarmed attack takes main-hand penalty (-4) for attack rolls, and full Strength bonus on damage rolls.

Thank You for Your attention.

Does Phantom Limb take bonus to damage from feats and traits (i.e. Power Attack, Dirty Fighter, etc.)? Does it count as an unarmed strike for the purposes of Weapon Focus?

Could the Beastmorph's bonuses be added while creating Cognatogen due to "it works just like the mutagen ability" or the alchemist can add these bonuses only to the mutagen?

My character (human alchemist/monk) is interested in learning the Boar Style, but I've found out that I can't understand its mechanics. On the first view, a character using Boar Style feat can hit one enemy with at least two unarmed strikes to "tear flesh", dealing 2d6 bleed damage. Going through conditions, we can see next:

Bleed: A creature that is taking bleed damage takes the listed amount of damage at the beginning of its turn. Bleeding can be stopped by a DC 15 Heal check or through the application of any spell that cures hit point damage (even if the bleed is ability damage). Some bleed effects cause ability damage or even ability drain. Bleed effects do not stack with each other unless they deal different kinds of damage. When two or more bleed effects deal the same kind of damage, take the worse effect. In this case, ability drain is worse than ability damage.

That's looking correct, but then we get to the Boar Shred feat, where we see: "While using Boar Style, whenever you tear an opponent's flesh, once per round at the start of that opponent's turn he takes 1d6 bleed damage. The bleed damage dealt while using Boar Style persist even if you later switch to a different style." But if the Boar Style's feat damage is actually bleed damage, it means that the opponent already has a stronger bleed damage on himself, and Boar Shred feat's damage is nullified, as it is weaker than initial 2d6 bleed damage. Though it could be helpful if the damage from Boar Style was usual damage, not bleed damage. Furthermore, does the last sentence of Boar Shred's feat benefit means that opponent ends bleed effect if I change or end Boar Style? I've searched faqs and erratas about this question and found nothing.