The Perfect Style feat gives "a ki pool that you can use to activate abilities of your chosen House of Perfection style".
Does that allow a character to use said ki pool for other ki-fueled abilities too?
I don't see how this can come up.
Additionally, you gain a ki pool that you can use to activate abilities of your chosen House of Perfection style. Your pool contains 2 ki points, and this increases by 1 point at 9th level and every 4 levels thereafter. If you have a ki pool from another source, you do not gain additional ki points from this feat.
How do you manage to have ki-fueled abilities already when you don't have a ki pool already?
How do you manage to have ki-fueled abilities already when you don't have a ki pool already?
Three levels Drunken Master. Or just accept you don't get those Ki points. You still have a Ki pool, which could be filled by other means.
How do you manage to have ki-fueled abilities already when you don't have a ki pool already?Three levels Drunken Master.
Ah, okay. I'm pretty sure RAI was assuming it couldn't happen. Since you found a way, it seems to me that the phrase "that you can use to activate abilities of your chosen House of Perfection style" is fundamentally descriptive and not prescriptive. It's there because if it just said "Additionally, you gain a ki pool" without mentioning any uses readers would wonder what was going on. So, I'd use anything described as just "ki" (versus "drunken ki" or other variant) interchangeably and not worry about what pool it comes from.
The Perfect Style feat gives "a ki pool that you can use to activate abilities of your chosen House of Perfection style".
Does that allow a character to use said ki pool for other ki-fueled abilities too?
Yes you can use the Ki pool for other ki fueled powers. Feats requiring ki pools, powers that come from other pools that are interchangeable with ki pools, and abilities that require ki pools that can be picked before having them (such as ninja talents taken by rogues), etc... all function with perfect style ki.
Nice. Thank you both for the clarifications.
The pool does have just enough Ki for the "Rogue Talent -> Ninja Trick -> Forgotten Trick -> almost any Ninja Trick"-trick, so a character would probably want one more Ki point to fuel the actual Trick. But that's doable.