DM Entry: Exotic Weapons, Associated Feats, and Virtual Feats.

Exotic Weapons and Associated Feats

This is being posted here so it doesn't get lost.

From Complete Adventurer page 116.

The following weapons are treated as other weapons for the sake of benefiting from feats, like Greater Weapon Focus, Greater Weapon Specialization, Improved Critical, Weapon Focus, and Weapon Specialization.

Greater blowgun is treated as a blowgun

Barbed bolas are treated as bolas

Greatbow is treated as a longbow

Greatspear is treated as a longspear

Dire pick is treated as a heavy pick

Heavy poleaxe is treated as a halberd

Warmace is treated as a heavy mace

So if you have Weapon Focus (longbow) you can use the benefit of the feat with longbows, composite longbows, and greatbows.

Virtual Feats

While we are on the subject, don't forget this little gem from Sword and Fist, page 5:

"If you effectively have a feat as a class feature or special ability, then you can use that virtual feat as a prerequisite for other feats. What does this mean? If you have, for example, some class feature or ability that says, 'This is the same as Mobility,' then you are considered to have the Mobility feat for purposes of acquiring the Spring Attack feat. If you ever lose the virtual prerequisite, you also lose access to any feats you acquired through its existence."