Sacred Fist + Pummeling Charge


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Hello all,
just need a quick rules explanation.

so ive heard that pummeling charge can be picked up quite early with the Sacred Fist if you take a dip into master of many styles.

Im very confused as to why that is, though it must be true because my hero lab says its legal.

why does the one level dip suddenly make it legal for me to take this feat, when it states the prerequisites are either a base attack of 12, or 8 brawler or monk levels?

any help is highly appreciated.


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Because master of many styles bonus feat section states: " The master of many styles does not need to meet any other prerequisite of the feat in the style’s feat path. "


Ah, Thank you!


Master of Many Styles ignores Style feat (and follow-up feats) pre-reqs, aside from needing the first feat in the chain and elemental fist if the style requires it.

Silver Crusade

Jade_darkness wrote:

Hello all,

just need a quick rules explanation.

so ive heard that pummeling charge can be picked up quite early with the Sacred Fist if you take a dip into master of many styles.

Im very confused as to why that is, though it must be true because my hero lab says its legal.

why does the one level dip suddenly make it legal for me to take this feat, when it states the prerequisites are either a base attack of 12, or 8 brawler or monk levels?

any help is highly appreciated.

Hero Lab is great, and I use it a lot, but please don't assume that it works just because HeroLab says so. They are quite often correct, but due to some mechanical limitations, it does not cover some corner cases perfectly.

Dark Archive

Sebastian Hirsch wrote:
Jade_darkness wrote:

Hello all,

just need a quick rules explanation.

so ive heard that pummeling charge can be picked up quite early with the Sacred Fist if you take a dip into master of many styles.

Im very confused as to why that is, though it must be true because my hero lab says its legal.

why does the one level dip suddenly make it legal for me to take this feat, when it states the prerequisites are either a base attack of 12, or 8 brawler or monk levels?

any help is highly appreciated.

Hero Lab is great, and I use it a lot, but please don't assume that it works just because HeroLab says so. They are quite often correct, but due to some mechanical limitations, it does not cover some corner cases perfectly.

Seconding this.

You were right to come ask, because there are a lot of people here who know what they're talking about, while HeroLab is pretty shoddy when it comes to actually going by what is possible according to the rules.

As a note, the Master of Many Styles dip also allows you to make good use of another Style feat (which you'll get at Warpriest 3) in conjunction with Pummeling Style. Dragon Style is generally a strong choice for this, because you can then charge through difficult terrain.


Herolab is significantly less shoddy than the average fallible human being.

Grand Lodge

Seranov wrote:


As a note, the Master of Many Styles dip also allows you to make good use of another Style feat (which you'll get at Warpriest 3) in conjunction with Pummeling Style. Dragon Style is generally a strong choice for this, because you can then charge through difficult terrain.

Or Stag Style. But I'm not going to rely on that until the ACG errata comes out within the next month so I can see whatever Pummeling Charge's text got upgraded to.

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