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I have a question about Style Feats.
Several of the Style Feats are written in this way:
Crane Style (Combat, Style)
Benefit: You take only a –2 penalty on attack rolls for fighting defensively. While using this style and fighting defensively or using the total defense action, you gain an additional +1 dodge bonus to your Armor Class.
Where part of the benefit "You take only a -2 penalty on attack rolls for fighting defensively," occurs before "While using this style..."
I am having difficulty knowing whether these types of benefits are usable all the time even when I'm not using OOO style. I know that it explicitly states Style feats cannot be used out-of-combat, and feats higher up in the feat path cannot be used at all while not in the style, but this doesn't exclude the basic OOO Style feat being used when you're not in a particular stance?
So, what does it mean to be "using that style" or "in that stance"? Can I use any part of the baisc OOO Style feat without being in the stance? Or must I enter a stance (with its action requirement), whenever I choose to use any part of the basic OOO Style feats?