Discipline Focus (discipline of choice) grants an increase to DC's of your chosen discipline, and a bonus to damage with wielding that a weapon from a weapon group associated with that discipline. Both bonuses are untyped (in my copy). Several disciplines share weapon groups. In particular, Golden Lion, Iron Tortoise, and Primal Fury, have heavy blades in their list of weapon groups.
If I took "Discipline Focus [Golden Lion]" and "Discipline Focus [Iron Tortoise]", would both feats apply to the swinging of a heavy blade?
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As far as I'm aware, no, because they violate the rule about sources with the same name; both bonuses come from a feat named Discipline Focus, which you have taken multiple times.
With that in mind, if they do stack by RAW, I'm not too terribly worried about it. It's quite a cost (feats you will never be getting back) for a small bonus.
I was thinking that its a bit much. If I take Discipline Focus [Golden Lion, Iron Tortoise, Primal Fury], it would be burning three feats, but +6 to damage to bastard swords to elven curve blades two-bladed swords. Not much of a bonus, but it sure covers a lot of weapons. As it is, its basically weapon specialization in a huge number of weapons.
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As I said, I'm fairly sure it violates the 'sources with the same name' rule; for similar reasons you can't get stacking dodge bonuses from multiple applications of the haste spell.
Sorry; I meant to add "And coming from the same source might be in question- each feat is specific to discipline- end the end,. I agree with you. This feat, like so many others, does not stack with itself."
I got distracted and hit the button too quick. Thanks for your input!