Devoted Muse Prerequisites

[PaperStSoapCo]

It's fairly obvious that this is intended to be a Swashbuckler focused prestige class. However, it seems as though a pure Swashbuckler won't actually qualify for the prestige class unless they (fairly uselessly) take the actual feat Weapon Finesse, since Swashbuckler Finesse only counts as Weapon Finesse for feat prerequisites.
Is this intended, or an oversight?

[Librain]

Swashbuckler finesse states that it counts as Weapon Finesse for the purpose of feat pre-requisites. You still need to take two of your first three feats as Combat Expertise and Improved Feint, which means that non-humans will have to choose between entering this class 2 levels late, or Piercing/Slashing Grace.

[Ryan Freire]

PaperStSoapCo wrote:

It's fairly obvious that this is intended to be a Swashbuckler focused prestige class. However, it seems as though a pure Swashbuckler won't actually qualify for the prestige class unless they (fairly uselessly) take the actual feat Weapon Finesse, since Swashbuckler Finesse only counts as Weapon Finesse for feat prerequisites.

Is this intended, or an oversight?

You're interpreting it as only qualifying for feats down the chain. What it means is if a prereq requires the feat weapon finesse, swashbuckler finesse counts.

[Librain]

One snag I just noticed, technically it doesn't count, because it only mentions counting as weapon finesse for the purpose of qualifying for FEATS, not prestige classes. I'm sure it was an oversight, they might want to get onto clarifying that.