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 1d6 + 1
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 1d6 + 1
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 4
• Causes wounds to unarmored targets
• Causes wounds to armored targets as long as bash reduction isn't greater than 30%
• Critical Hit knocks out unarmored targets for 1d3 rounds
• Critical Hit knocks out armored targets for 1d3 rounds as long as bash reduction isn't greater than 30%
• Dazes armored targets for 1d3 rounds as long as bash reduction isn't greater than 50%
• Critical Hit has a 1 in 6 chance of breaking a bone of the area hit (6 on a 1d6 roll) if the target is unarmored, or 10% chance (10 or less on percentile dice) if the target is armored but bash reduction isn't greater than 30%

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