Feral Heart – Martial Technique

Stance

Level:	Feral Crescent 1
Action:	1 swift action
Range:	Personal
Target:	You
Duration:	Stance

Your heart resonates with your feral nature, enhancing the lethality of your natural weapons.

While you maintain this stance, you increase the damage dealt by your primary natural weapon by three steps on Table: Damage Progression. This damage increase stacks with effects which increase your size or natural attack damage. However, you also take a -4 penalty on attack rolls you make with any manufactured weapons you wield.

At initiator level 6th, the damage dealt by your primary natural weapon instead increases by four steps. At initiator level 12th, this benefit applies to all of your natural weapons.

Sidebar: Editor's Note

Table: Damage Progression
Steps	Damage Dice	Max Damage
0	—	—
1	1	1
2	1	1
3	1d2	2
4	1d2	2
5	1d3	3
6	1d3	3
7	1d4	4
8	1d4	4
9	1d6	6
10	1d6	6
11	1d8	8
12	1d8	8
13	1d10	10
14	2d6	12
15	2d8	16
16	3d6	18
17	3d8	24
18	4d6	24
19	4d8	32
20	6d6	36
21	6d8	48
22	8d6	48
23	8d8	64
24	12d6	72
25	12d8	96
26	16d6	96
27	16d8	128

The damage progression table and relevant text is reproduced here for ease of reference.

Changing Weapon Size

When adjusting a weapon or natural attack’s damage based on size, use the following process:

Find the current damage dice on Table: Damage Progression. If the damage is listed as more than one Step, use the higher Step. For example, if the weapon deals 1d6 damage, start on Step 10.
For each change in size category, increase or decrease damage by two Steps. So, if a character changes from Small to Large—an increase of two size categories—the damage would increase by four Steps. If this would move the damage beyond Step 0 or Step 27, then the damage is set to Step 0 or 27 respectively.

If the exact damage number cannot be found, use the following conversion rules to determine your starting Step.

If the damage is expressed as a number of d6 or d8, find the next lowest set of the same die type and then increase by one Step. So, 5d6 would be read as Step 18 (4d6) and 7d8 would be Step 21 (6d8).
If the damage is expressed in d12s, convert to twice as many d6s (1d12 = 2d6, 2d12 = 4d6, and so forth).
If the damage is expressed as some other number of dice, calculate the highest possible damage roll and then find the step with the closest maximum damage. Some Steps have different dice but the same max damage, in which case you should always use the higher Step.
Some examples:
- 3d4 has a max of 12 damage, making it equivalent to 2d6 (Step 14).
- 3d10 maxes out at 30, which is between Step 18 and 19; however, 30 is closer to 32 (Step 19) than it is to 24 (Step 18), so use Step 19.