Fuse Style question

[Kalah]

Hello there,

My GF has a Sacred Fist warpriest with a one level dip in Monk (master of many styles). She's currently Warpriest 5 / Master of Many Styles 1

She has a quite usual feat setup for a sacred fist: Pummeling Style, Pummeling Charge, Dragon Style and Dragon Ferocity

At her level she can combine two styles altogether, our usual DM tells us that using Pummeling Charge is already considered as fusing two style altogether with Pummeling Style, preventing her from fusing Dragon Style and Pummeling Style altogether.

I tend to disagree, to me it looks like fusing styles is meant to fuse feat that have "Style" in their name, not feats improving a fighting stance like pummeling charge or dragon ferocity.

In short: can she fuse Dragon Style and Pummeling Style, adding the goodies like Pummeling Charge and Dragon Ferocity for free?

Or can she only fuse Pummeling Style + Pummeling Charge, or Dragon Style + Dragon Ferocity (or Pummeling Style + Dragon Style but w/o the bonuses from charge and ferocity)

Many thanks in advance for your replies

[Chess Pwn]

Pummeling charge isn't a style, it's a feat you can do when in the Pummeling style. Thus you activate pummeling style, and can do a pummeling charge, and then activate dragon style, and gain dragon ferocity too.

[thorin001]

Your DM is wrong.

Any feat which has an X Style feat as a prerequisite is part of that style. In fact you must be in the stance of the original style feat to use any of the follow on feats.

[GeneMemeScene]

Your DM is wrong, as the others have indicated. Pummeling Style, Pummeling Charge, and Pummeling Bully are all different feats of the same style. Likewise for any chain of style feats.

Note also that her feat setup isn't unusual at all. Sacred Fist dipping Master of Many Styles is fairly common (the Warpriest guide on Zenith Games even suggests it over straight Warpriest).

[Kalah]

K, thanks for the confirmation :) !

So I can do the following:
Round 1: swift action: Pummeling style
Round 2: swift action: Dragon style (keeping the pummeling style thanks to fuse style)

... And kick ass with both styles actives, unlocking both of their specific "bonus" feats (i.e pummeling charge and dragon ferocity)

[thorin001]

Kalah wrote:

K, thanks for the confirmation :) !

So I can do the following:
Round 1: swift action: Pummeling style
Round 2: swift action: Dragon style (keeping the pummeling style thanks to fuse style)

... And kick ass with both styles actives, unlocking both of their specific "bonus" feats (i.e pummeling charge and dragon ferocity)

Yes. And when you can I would suggest looking into the Combat Style Master feat. That allows you to start combat in a stance.

[Kalah]

Just need to meet the BAB prerequ for that one but that's planned :D

And Gene I know the feat setup isn't really original for a Sacred Fist, hence why it's stated in the first post :) !

[GeneMemeScene]

Kalah wrote:

Just need to meet the BAB prerequ for that one but that's planned :D

And Gene I know the feat setup isn't really original for a Sacred Fist, hence why it's stated in the first post :) !

Oh sorry, I read that as "quite unusual" as opposed to "quite usual".

[Tadavery]

Does fuse style stack with free fighting style?