Can a monk use Scorpion Style and another style feat simultaneously?

[Ch3rnobyl]

One of my players insists that, since Scorpion Style was included in the core rulebook, and style feats were not introduced until Ultimate Combat, it means that, despite the descriptor "style" in the name, this is just a regular combat feat. As a result, a monk should be able to use it and a style feat at the same time (e.g. Dragon Style).

Does this argument hold water?

[Bob Bob Bob]

It does not matter that the name contains the word style, it needs the actual Style descriptor. It only has the Combat descriptor.

Quote:

Scorpion Style (Combat)

They have retroactively added descriptors to things before (I know of [Curse] specifically) but they did not for this.

And, honestly, it's not a style feat. Style feats use a swift action to enter into a persistent state, usually with some kind of benefit. Scorpion Style is more like Vital Strike. It's a special kind of attack you can make with specific limitations.

[Lady-J]

even tho it says style its not a style feat and can be combined with an actual style feat

[Weirdo]

Agreed, this is not actually a [Style] feat. It wasn't designed with the same limitations in mind, and Paizo hasn't taken the opportunity to re-write it in any way to make it more of a [Style] feat (which among other things would probably involve turning it into a feat chain).

[Gulthor]

Weirdo wrote:

Agreed, this is not actually a [Style] feat. It wasn't designed with the same limitations in mind, and Paizo hasn't taken the opportunity to re-write it in any way to make it more of a [Style] feat (which among other things would probably involve turning it into a feat chain).

It actually is a feat chain, it's just not a very good one.

It leads into Gorgon's Fist, Medusa's Wrath, and then Cockatrice Strike.

But I agree it isn't a Style in the sense of the other style feats.