Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with bashing or blunt weapons. This is basically hitting someone with a blunt weapon in a swinging motion. Blunt weapons are any weapons that you can bash with, such as hammers, mallets, rods, staffs, whips, planks, tonfa, and clubs. Any weapon that can have a bashing attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 1d4 + 1
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 1d4 + 1
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 3
• Causes wounds to unarmored targets
• Critical Hit knocks out unarmored targets for 1d3 rounds
• Dazes armored targets for 1d3 rounds as long as bash reduction isn't greater than 30%

This skill cannot be used with Basic Bashing Proficiency or Novice Bashing Proficiency