dragon style Q

[666bender]

Dragon Ferocity (Combat)
You attack with the strength of a dragon, your telling blows striking fear into your enemies.
Prerequisites: Str 15, Improved Unarmed Strike, Dragon Style, Stunning Fist, Acrobatics 5 ranks.
Benefit: While using Dragon Style, you gain a bonus on unarmed strike damage rolls equal to half your Strength bonus. When you score a critical hit or a successful Stunning Fist attempt against an opponent while using this style, that opponent is also shaken for a number of rounds equal to 1d4 + your Strength bonus.

it say: " When you score a critical hit" it doesnt say with a unarmed strike.
so, a falchion user will shake every crit?

[claudekennilol]

Right, it's with any crit.

[Jeff Clem]

No! You have to be attacking with an unarmed strike!

[claudekennilol]

Jeff Clem wrote:

No! You have to be attacking with an unarmed strike!

Care to share the part that you're reading that says the crit has to be with an unarmed strike?

[Claxon]

The style feats are all about unarmed combat.

While that particular doesn't specifically have a prohibition saying that it only affects unarmed strikes, I think it's relatively straightforward to realize that was the intention.

RAW technical allows it, RAI doesn't.

[BadBird]

I don't see any proof that the RAI is "only unarmed strikes" any more than I see any proof that you must be using unarmed strikes to gain the improved charge mechanics or saves. Dragon Ferocity involves emulating a dragon, and it makes you scary when you bash things. There's nothing in that concept that implies you're only scary when you bash things unarmed.

Overriding what the rules actually say when it's perfectly clear that RAI is different (such as cases where using RAW means that something literally doesn't work at all) is one thing. Doing it on nothing but a personal assumption about how it 'should' work is another thing entirely...