now that Adventures armory 2 is out, its now possible to make any weapon workable with the ascetic style chain. first thought i had was to take advantage of it with my inspired blade swashbuckler (who by chance has a homebrew tattoo from the GM that gives him stunning fist 1 maybe 2 times a day). so i plan on using the weapon modification to add my rapier to the monk weapon group. but i have few questions before taking the feat chain.
1) do i still need IuS? it says you can use use you weapon with with IuS feats, but i bet i would still need IuS right?
2) would i need ascetic form before i could use stunning fist with my weapon or does ascetic style allow that?
3) in ascetic strike it says you can take the monastic legacy feat without having the still mind class feature. do they stack with each other? say i was lv 20, that would make my effective IuS damage that of a lv 26 character. (granted it would just stay at a lv 20 damage)
not sure if it is a wise investment but being a swashbuckler with a (2d10 dmg)+(x3 crit mod)+(14-20 crit range) rapier at lv 20 is pretty sweet.
1) Why would you need IUS? the feat requires weapon focus and BAB of +1, right?
2) There is a mistake in the wording of Ascetic Style, the author has even posted a blog explaining how the feat that was printed is not at all what was intended because of the extremely vague nature of "effects" as a rules term. Technically you can run everything unarmed through your weapon with just the first feat and a lot of the second feat is redundant because of that. But this is a known error and was not the author's intent.
3) I do not believe there are any rules to cover this. technically yes but again, i would not expect many GMs to buy off on it since it makes non monks better at specicifically copying monk unarmed fighting.
whoops sorry about question 1, want i mean is, do i still need need IuS for such feats like defect arrows? it would appear so, it just allows you to use weapon instead of your hand.