Potential Playtest mistake / misprint: Inventor Feat 2 - Kickback Strike

[navinavinavi]

KICKBACK STRIKE [two-actions] FEAT 2

Prerequisites: weapon innovation

You activate devices on your innovation, causing your weapon to strike with extreme recoil that helps you disengage. Strike a foe and then Stride twice. You must end each Strike further from the foe than you began.

So initially I thought this feat described the ability order as:

Strike > Stride > Stride

But after that last sentence, I'm immediately confused. It modifies the previous sentence to read like the Inventor can:

Strike > Stride > Strike > Stride

So, which is it? Did Paizo misprint the last sentence? I think the ability makes more sense if it reads "You must end each Stride further from the foe than you began." But it's also possible that it's correct. Would be great to get an official reply to this.

[Mark Seifter]

It should be Strike, Stride, Stride. The last sentence should say "Stride" not "Strike."

[Christopher Mathieu]

Mark Seifter wrote:

It should be Strike, Stride, Stride. The last sentence should say "Stride" not "Strike."

It might help to make the second sentence read "Strike a foe, and then Stride twice." The comma will help make that clearer.

[Invictus Novo]

So, if you make a strike and miss, do you still get the 2 strides afterwards? The sentence is structured in such a way that it seems like you have to land the strike, but it isn't completely clear on that.

[shroudb]

Invictus Novo wrote:

So, if you make a strike and miss, do you still get the 2 strides afterwards? The sentence is structured in such a way that it seems like you have to land the strike, but it isn't completely clear on that.

it says make a strike and then two strides.

it makes no mention of the strike being succesful or not (like, if you look at other feats like knockback it specifically mentions that the second actions only apply if the strike was a success)

so all in all you do not need to hit to stride.