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Denver
2015-01-28, 06:17 AM
A quick question about the interactions of a couple of feats and a class feature ("stunt," truly) and whether or not it works as I am reading it.


Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting (Complete Adventurer, page 110)
You are adept at wielding larger than normal weapons in your off hand.
Prerequisite: Str 13, Two-Weapon Fighting.
Benefit: When wielding a one-handed weapon in your off hand, you take penalties for fighting with two weapons as if you were wielding a light weapon in your off hand (see page 160 of the Player’s Handbook).
Special: A fighter may select Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting as one of his fighter bonus feats.


Power Attack (PHB, page 98)
You can make exceptionally powerful melee attacks.
Prerequisite: Str 13.
Benefit: On your action, before making attack rolls for a round, you may choose to subtract a number from all melee attack rolls and add the same number to all melee damage rolls. This number may not exceed your base attack bonus. The penalty on attacks and bonus on damage apply until your next turn.
Special: If you attack with a two-handed weapon, or with a one handed weapon wielded in two hands, instead add twice the number subtracted from your attack rolls. You can’t add the bonus from Power Attack to the damage dealt with a light weapon (except with unarmed strikes or natural weapon attacks), even though the penalty on attack rolls still applies. (Normally, you treat a double weapon as a one-handed weapon and a light weapon. If you choose to use a double weapon like a two-handed weapon, attacking with only one end of it in a round, you treat it as a two-handed weapon.)

Exotic Weapon Master Exotic Weapon Stunt


Uncanny Blow (Complete Warrior, page 30)
When wielding a one-handed exotic melee weapon in two hands, the character can focus the power of his attack so that he deals extra damage equal to his Strength bonus ×2 instead of his Strength bonus ×1-1/2.
If he has the Power Attack feat, he treats the weapon as two-handed for purposes of determining his bonus on damage rolls.

Bolded portion I take to mean that an Exotic Weapon Master wielding a One-handed weapon with one hand gets the Two-handed bonus on his Power Attack, correct?

If that answer is yes, then the follow up question would be - If an Exotic Weapon Master with the Oversize Two-Weapon Fighting feat, Power Attack, and the Uncanny Blow stunt were wielding two One-handed exotic weapons in each hand; would that character be able to use his Power Attack ability and receive the double bonus to each weapon?

(In reviewing the question, I realize that the Oversize Two-weapon Fighting feat has no direct impact on the interaction of Uncanny Blow and Power Attack, but was instead just included because the three could work well together.)

Darrin
2015-01-28, 07:09 AM
It's not clear if the designer is carving out a unique ability for one-handed exotic weapons, or if he/she misunderstood how Power Attack works. So you're left with a DM's Call situation, and this generally falls prey to MCHNT (Melee Can't Have Nice Things).

Looking at it again... the second sentence of Uncanny Blow is either redundant (because that's how Power Attack already works), or it applies to one-handed exotic weapons in a one-handed grip.

As far as your follow-up question goes, yes, that's one of the ways you can get two-handed Power Attack damage on a TWF chassis. The other method is Revenant Blade's Legendary Force, which is much more ironclad from a rules standpoint.

The other follow-up question would be... you're gripping an exotic one-handed weapon in one hand, and you do have Power Attack. Since the second sentence says you now treat that weapon as two-handed for determining damage... do you also get the x1.5 Str bonus from the first sentence?

Denver
2015-01-28, 07:25 AM
It's not clear if the designer is carving out a unique ability for one-handed exotic weapons, or if he/she misunderstood how Power Attack works. So you're left with a DM's Call situation, and this generally falls prey to MCHNT (Melee Can't Have Nice Things).

Looking at it again... the second sentence of Uncanny Blow is either redundant (because that's how Power Attack already works), or it applies to one-handed exotic weapons in a one-handed grip.

As far as your follow-up question goes, yes, that's one of the ways you can get two-handed Power Attack damage on a TWF chassis. The other method is Revenant Blade's Legendary Force, which is much more ironclad from a rules standpoint.

The other follow-up question would be... you're gripping an exotic one-handed weapon in one hand, and you do have Power Attack. Since the second sentence says you now treat that weapon as two-handed for determining damage... do you also get the x1.5 Str bonus from the first sentence?

On top of potentially getting the 1.5x Strength Bonus, how does that last sentence of Uncanny Blow interact with Leap Attack?


Leap Attack
Prerequisite: Power Attack; Jump - 8 ranks
You can combine a jump with a charge against an opponent. If you cover at least 10 feet of horizontal distance with your jump, and you end your jump in a square from which you threaten your target, you deal +100% the normal bonus damage from your use of the Power Attack feat. If you use this tactic with a two-handed weapon, you instead triple the extra damage from Power Attack.
This attack must follow all the normal rules for using the Jump skill and for making a charge, except that you ignore rough terrain in any squares you jump over.

The feat itself seems to refer to the quality of the weapon, in that it requires a two-handed weapon... but then the feat is modifying Power Attack, and that clause of Uncanny Blow explicitly states that the weapon is treated as two-handed when it comes to damage values relating to (at the very least) Power Attack!