How do these two feats interact? Feral Combat training and Beast Strike.

[deadkitten]

I am fully aware of the dangers of mixing Dragon magazine into 3.5, and am also aware of the dangers of adding Pathfinder, let alone both of them at the same time. My group tends to use both with relatively few restrictions and I am wondering if these two feats interact in such a way that it causes an infinite loop of damage on an attack. If so I plan on rightly banning the combination, I am just wondering if they work like I think they would.

3.5 rules take precedent in our games, we just add Pathfinder and Dragon Magazine for more options.

Feral Combat Training (Combat)

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Prerequisite:  Improved Unarmed Strike, Weapon Focus with selected natural weapon.

Benefit: Choose one of your natural weapons. While using the selected natural weapon, you can apply the effects of feats that have Improved Unarmed Strike as a prerequisite, as well as effects that augment an unarmed strike.

Special: If you are a monk, you can use the selected natural weapon with your flurry of blows class feature.

Beast Strike

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Type: General, Fighter
Source: Dragon #355

Your martial training makes full use of your natural weapons in unarmed combat.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +5, Improved Unarmed Strike, claw or slam attack
Benefit: When you make an unarmed strike or grapple check to deal damage, you may add your claw or slam damage to your unarmed trike or grapple damage.
Special: A fighter may select Beast Strike as a fighter bonus feat.

[ketaro]

I don't see how it could be interpreted as infinite damage loop. All you're getting from combining them is being able to effectively do double damage on every attack, whether an unarmed strike or the single natural attack chosen for Feral Training. If, somehow, some one could warp an understanding of this to equal an infinite damage loop, then your best course of action is to simply stop it at being able to not trigger off itself and thus not getting higher than double damage on every hit.

[Jackinthegreen]

The rules would interact only with the "first iteration."  After all, if someone said "add 1 to 1" the expected response is "2" and not "How many times?  Infinity?  Ok, it's infinity."

Unarmed strike and natural attack damage would still be tracked separately.  For example, if the character had 2d6 unarmed damage and 1d8 claw damage, having Beast Strike would just add 1d8 to the character's unarmed strike damage.

Though I'd recommend being wary of stuff like Greater Mighty Wallop.  If FCT's wording is taken strictly, the size increase from GMW would also seem to apply to the selected natural weapon even if it wasn't technically an appropriate target like a claw with piercing/slashing damage instead of the GMW's required bludgeoning.  Then again, one could argue that only effects that specifically call out unarmed strikes would work.  *shrug*

But there's no infinite loop shenanigans here since FCT doesn't add unarmed strike damage to the chosen natural weapon.  It merely allows the natural weapon to benefit from effects that would normally only apply to unarmed strikes such as Stunning Fist.

[ketaro]

Heh, I suddenly had the thought of something with tentacles snapping it's tentacles at people like whips ala Snap Kick

[Jackinthegreen]

Heh, I suddenly had the thought of something with tentacles snapping it's tentacles at people like whips ala Snap Kick

Super Squid Slap attack!

[ketaro]

Aaaaaah time to make an awakened psionic Kraken monk 
Call it Tentecruel