| The Other |
Hi all,
I realize that there was significant discussion regarding Feral Combat Training and the 2015 UC errata, but I am still not entirely clear on the current state of the feat.
Feral Combat Training:
Choose one of your natural weapons. While using the selected natural weapon, you can apply the effects of feats that have Improved Unarmed Strike as a prerequisite.
Does this mean that any feat that has Improved Unarmed Strike as a prerequisite, yet mentions specifically "unarmed strike" in the feat text (for example Dragon Style, Vicious Stomp, or Medusa's Wrath), can still be used with Feral Combat Training?
While using this style, you gain a +2 bonus on saving throws against sleep effects, paralysis effects, and stunning effects. You ignore difficult terrain when you charge, run, or withdraw. You can also charge through squares that contain allies. Further, you can add 1-1/2 times your Strength bonus on the damage roll for your first unarmed strike on a given round.
Whenever an opponent falls prone adjacent to you, that opponent provokes an attack of opportunity from you. This attack must be an unarmed strike.
Whenever you use the full-attack action and make at least one unarmed strike, you can make two additional unarmed strikes at your highest base attack bonus. These bonus attacks must be made against a dazed, flat-footed, paralyzed, staggered, stunned, or unconscious foe.
It would seem so, otherwise the feat would be almost completely useless. Or has it been nerfed to the ground?
Thank you in advance.
| GeneMemeScene |
With Feral Combat Training,
1) Dragon Style and Medusa's Wrath would work with natural attacks
2) Pummeling Style would not, as it has a specific line of dialogue saying they can only be unarmed strikes. In this case the "specific overrules general" standard should make it restricted.
3) For Vicious Stomp I lean towards saying it would work with natural attacks, because the restriction does not call out abilities that would let you override it, suggesting that it is not supposed to incapable of being overridden.