Slashing Grace
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus with chosen weapon.
Choose one kind of one-handed slashing weapon (such as the longsword). When wielding your chosen weapon one-handed, you can treat it as a one-handed piercing melee weapon for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a swashbuckler's or a duelist's precise strike) and you can add your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to that weapon's damage. The weapon must be one appropriate for your size.
When I first saw that feat, I thought it'd be a great addition to the Swashbuckler I was thinking of building. Seemed custom made for Swashbucklers. But then I read Swashbuckler Finesse.
Swashbuckler Finesse (Ex)
At 1st level, a swashbuckler gains the benefits of the Weapon Finesse feat with light or one-handed piercing melee weapons, and she can use her Charisma score in place of Intelligence as a prerequisite for combat feats. This ability counts as having the Weapon Finesse feat for purposes of meeting feat prerequisites.
It says you gain the effects with piercing weapons, implying you don't with slashing weapons. It also says you count as having the feat, but isn't that with just piercing weapons as the first line indicated?
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When wielding your chosen weapon one-handed, you can treat it as a one-handed piercing melee weapon for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a swashbuckler's or a duelist's precise strike)
What does that line mean to you?
edit: Also don't say "it" when you're trying to compare two distinct things--I can't tell what your question is.
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 8
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They work together.
Without Swashbuckler Finesse, you can't use one-handed weapons with Weapon Finesse (with a few exceptions).
Without Slashing Grace, Swashbuckler Finesse only applies to piercing weapons.
Together, they allow you to apply Weapon Finesse to one-handed slashing weapons.
Swashbuckler Finesse allows you to count as having Weapon Finesse for the purpose of taking Slashing Grace because Slashing Grace doesn't care if your use of Weapon Finesse is limited. It just cares if you have Weapon Finesse.
Swashbuckler Finesse + Slashing Grace = Dex to Hit & Damage with a Bastardsword.
Take Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Katana) or levels in Samurai, and start getting into some REAL insanity (you basically become a master of Batojutsu)