Gunslinger

They say, "the pen is mightier than the sword," and you know that knowledge is power: the best way to defeat your enemies is by stealing what they know and replacing it with misinformation. To that end, you have been trained in the ways of covert warfare, giving you a broad range of abilities to complement your fearsome gunnery skills.

Starting from 7th level, your experience in the field gives you a number of advantages. You can't be surprised while you are conscious. Additionally, you can use a bonus action to make a Wisdom (Perception) check to spot hidden creatures.

Also at 7th level, you gain access to specialized adventuring gear that can be hidden about your person, either by being unusually small or by being disguised as something else. Any gear that you are carrying, except for weapons and armor that are not light, is undetectable by any casual observer. A creature that attempts to conduct a thorough search of you must make an Intelligence (Investigation) check with a DC equal to 13 + your Intelligence modifier + twice your proficiency bonus.

At 10th level, you know which risks to take and which to leave alone. You can now expend two risk dice to perform two deeds within the same turn.

Starting at 14th level, whenever you hit with an attack using a firearm, you can expend a risk die and add it to the damage roll.

You believe that virtually all problems can be solved with the careful application of high-explosives, and will go to great lengths to prove this thesis. Demolitions are your expertise, and anything that can cause explosions at long range is your instrument. If you must, you can make do with an ordinary gun, but it's simply not as satisfying as blowing your enemies into smithereens.

By 7th level, you hurriedly and safely load even the heaviest weapons. As a bonus action at the end of your turn, you can reload any weapon you are holding that has the Reload property and requires more than 1 action to reload.

Starting at 10th level, when you make an attack with a weapon that has the Explosive property, you can fire it in a parabolic arc. This attack ignores half and three-quarters cover, as long as the target doesn't have cover from above.

By 14th level, you can load and fire a special projectile that is packed tight with smaller explosives which scatter on impact. You can load and fire this projectile as an action; the projectile's range is determined by the weapon that fires it. When the clusterbomb lands, it explodes in a 20-foot radius. Each creature within the blast radius must make a Dexterity saving throw with disadvantage against your Deed save DC, or take 10d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Restriction: Strength score 15 or Higher

Be bigger, be badder, and be tougher, and no man will stand in your way. You are a living siege engine, a titan of muscle, brandishing weapons most men are incapable of lifting. Armed with these devastating firearms, you wade into the field of battle, bombarding and destroying those foolish enough to approach you.

At 7th level, you have advantage on saving throws made against being charmed.

Starting at 10th level, your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, and lift are doubled, and you have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws. Additionally, you can ignore the Two-Handed property on firearms with which you are proficient.

At 14th level, as a bonus action, you can explode into a fury to destroy lesser men. For the next minute, you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage and can make one additional attack whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. However, for the duration, your speed is halved and you have disadvantage on Dexterity checks and saving throws.

Your gun rage ends if you take cover, finish your turn without attacking, or use your bonus action to end it early

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

The ancient art of gun-ko is passed through generations of gunslingers who study the gun as a perfect weapon and meditate on its intricacies. This path is not for the impatient or the faint of heart, but those who practice it diligently make their guns an extension of themselves, learning to strike with the speed of a rifle and catch bullets out of the air.

Starting at 7th level, if a creature within 5 feet of you is holding a firearm, you can use your bonus action and expend a risk die to attempt to disarm that creature. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Deed save DC. On a failed save, you take the firearm from the creature's hands after a series of rapid movements. You must have at least one empty hand to use this ability.

Also at 7th level, you can use your reaction to deflect or catch the projectile when you are hit by a ranged weapon attack. When you do so, the damage you take from the attack is reduced by 1d10 + your Dexterity modifier + proficiency bonus.

At 10th level, your reflexes are so honed that you can dodge incoming bullets. You can use your bonus action to choose one creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. You gain the benefits of the Dodge action against the target's ranged attacks and effects until the start of your next turn. You lose this benefit if you take damage from the target.

By 14th level, you have mastered the most advanced techniques of gun-ko. You can use your bonus action to make two melee weapon attacks and one ranged weapon attack with a firearm against targets within 15 feet of you. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

The gun is a pure connection between life and death; it is an object connected to the very soul, for it can send anyone to the afterlife with the pull of a trigger. Through a dark ritual, many a close brush with death, or pact with the Black Goddess of Guns herself, your soul has been shattered into many fragments, placing you in a state between life and death, and allowing you to manipulate dark powers of the Gun, one shot at a time.

Beginning at 7th level, while you remain motionless, you are indistinguishable from a corpse.

At 10th level, you gain the ability to converse with undead as if you shared a language with them. In addition, you gain advantage on any Charisma checks you make to interact with undead creatures that understand a language.

By 14th level, you have become more adept at creating undead using your soul and are now able to enhance those that you raise from the dead. When you animate an undead using your Dead Shot feature, the target now rises as a ghoul under your control, but otherwise follows the spell animate dead.

Fortune is a fickle thing—unless you're a high roller. These gunslingers are master card sharps and dice throwers that mix their love of risk with their talent for gunplay. High rollers push their luck until it runs out, then push harder. Why settle for just a win when you could bet it all and win big?

At 7th level, when you make an attack roll against a hostile creature or a hostile creature forces you to make a saving throw, you can choose to make the roll with disadvantage. When you do, you regain an expended risk die.

Starting at 10th level, when you score a critical hit on a ranged firearm attack, you can roll the damage twice and use the higher of the two results. When you roll a 1 on a ranged firearm attack roll, you can choose to take psychic damage equal to your proficiency bonus or lose this feature's critical hit benefit for the next minute.

At 14th level, when you score a critical hit with a firearm, you can roll two additional d20s. Treat these d20s as if they were ranged attack rolls you made against the target with a firearm. If they both miss, your critical hit becomes a normal hit. If either of these d20s would score a critical hit, roll all of the attack's damage dice three times and add them together, instead of only two times as normal for a critical hit. Otherwise, the critical hit happens as normal.

In a time when most warriors fight with swords or bows, you were among the first to see the potential of gunpowder to reshape warfare. As a janissary, you are at the cutting edge of military science, using not only the newest weapons, but also taking advantage of new innovations in tactics, organization, and logistical planning.

By 7th level, your years of experience make you almost impossible to deceive. You have advantage on any saving throw imposed by a spell of the illusion school and on any ability check made to discern or disbelieve an illusion.

At 10th level, you are as skilled in the arts of politics as you are in those of war, drawing upon your gunfighting skills and battlefield achievements to impress rich and poor alike. When you make a Charisma check to influence another humanoid, you can expend one risk die, rolling it and adding it to the result. You make this roll after you roll the check, but before the outcome is determined.

Starting at 14th level, you are considered to benefit from half cover against all ranged attacks as long as you are within 10 feet of an ally who is not unconscious. If you are standing directly behind an ally, you have three-quarter cover instead.

Gunslinging, as you well understand, is more science than art, especially when using cutting-edge blaster technology. As a laserist, you're interested in maximizing blaster output while minimizing survivors, iterating and customizing your blasters to create the perfect weapon.

At 7th level, you can integrate two weapons with the Blaster property into a single chassis, granting you a supremely flexible weapon. You can have one merged blaster at a time, but you can change which two blasters are integrated when you take a long rest. You can choose to fire the blaster as either of the two integrated weapons.

Beginning at 10th level, you have installed a sophisticated electromagnetic device on your person, capable of scattering an incoming blaster shot. As a reaction whenever you take lightning, necrotic, radiant, or thunder damage, you can expend a risk die to gain resistance to this damage.

By 14th level, you have perfected a blaster design of singularly destructive power, the tri-laser, whose projectiles emulate the dynamics of a sphere of annihilation. As an action, you can fire the laser, creating a two-foot diameter sphere of energy. However, this sphere floats to its target sluggishly, moving only 15 feet, and continuing its movement at the beginning of each of your turns, moving 15 feet each turn. The sphere deals 4d10 radiant damage to anything it touches, disintegrating nonmagical objects it reduces to 0 hit points. The sphere dissipates when it meets an obstruction that is not destroyed by it.

Be bigger, be badder, and be tougher, and no man will stand in your way. You are a living siege engine, a titan of muscle, brandishing weapons most men are incapable of lifting. Armed with these devastating firearms, you wade into the field of battle, bombarding and destroying those foolish enough to approach you.

At 7th level, you ignore the Loading and Misfire properties of the blunderbuss, flintlock, and musket.

Starting at 10th level, when you move 15 feet or more in a straight line on your turn, you can use your bonus action to make one attack with a bayonet or a melee weapon.

By 14th level, whenever a friendly creature within 5 feet of you is targeted by an attack, you can use your reaction to make a firearm attack against the attacker.

Bullets are power, and you have long believed that more bullets equal more power. Your expertise is in delivering a hail of deadly fire to pulverize your enemies. Not every bullet needs to be accurate to make a difference.

Starting at 7th level, you have mastered the art of quickly reloading your weapon. On your turn, you can reload a single one-handed firearm without using an action or bonus action.

At 10th level, when you make a ranged firearm attack with a one-handed firearm on your turn, you can use your bonus action to gain advantage on the attack roll. Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

At 14th level, as a reaction when you take damage from a creature within 15 feet of you, you can make a firearm attack targeting that creature.

A well-placed bullet is more powerful than a sword, arrow, or spell. Indeed, you believe that every violent conflict should sound like a single loud crack followed by a long silence. Such shots need to be delivered perfectly, even at range, for when they are done right, they are as deadly for the target as they are stupendous for the audience.

By 7th level, you've learned to expertly conceal yourself in a sniper's nest. You can spend 1 minute preparing camouflage for yourself. Until you move, you gain the following benefits:

By 10th level, your vision is keen enough to place invisible targets in your sights. As a bonus action, you can gain darkvision and the effects of the see see invisibility spell against targets that are 30 feet or further from you until the end of your next turn. You can use this bonus action only if you haven't moved during this turn, and after you use the bonus action, your speed is 0 until the end of the current turn.

Starting at 14th level, when you use your Attack action to make only one ranged attack with a firearm and do not have disadvantage, you can gain advantage on the attack roll and deal damage on a hit as if you scored a critical hit.

Nothing matters to you more than freedom. With a blaster on your hip and the wide-open sky to explore, you no longer have to answer to any man. Conversely, the horrible dangers of the final frontier tend to draw gamblers and risk-takers, be they unscrupulous smugglers, bloodthirsty bounty hunters, or big damn heroes.

At 7th level, you can customize your blaster to better suit the rugged lifestyle of a frontiersman. If you spend a short rest working on a blaster, you can modify it such that its normal and long ranges are doubled, it functions normally in adverse weather conditions, can be fired normally underwater, and can be used as a melee weapon with the statistics of a mace. You can only have one blaster modified in this way at any given time, and only you are able to use this weapon proficiently.

By 10th level, the strange fighting styles of all manner of aliens no longer surprise you. You have advantage on saving throws against effects caused by aberrations, monstrosities, or oozes. In addition, you have advantage on Charisma checks you make to interact with aberrations.

When you reach 14th level, you master the art of fighting in deep space, fitting jet thrusters to your gear in order to gain extra maneuverability. You gain a jetpack magic item, which you can use for an unlimited amount of time each day while you are not wearing medium or heavy armor. Furthermore, you are always considered to benefit from half cover while airborne or in an area of zero gravity.

Magic and guns aren't so different. If arcane power is like gunpowder and a spell is like a bullet, you are like a gun, directing your spells with precision at unfortunate targets. You mix the disciplines of gun and spell, sometimes loading arcane charges with your shots and firing streaks of lighting, frost, or flame in the wake of your bullet.

Beginning at 7th level, you can load an entire cantrip into your gun. When you use your action to cast a cantrip, you can use your bonus action to make one ranged attack with a firearm or make a ranged spell attack using the finger guns cantrip.

Also at 7th level, firearms you use count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Starting at 10th level, you can use your action to fire a bullet wreathed in the evocation of a magic missile spell. The attack must use a firearm and the target must be within the firearm's normal range. Do not roll this attack; it automatically hits its target and deals force damage.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

At 14th level, when you use your action to cast a spell, you can expend one risk die as a bonus action to make one ranged attack with a firearm or make a ranged spell attack using the finger guns cantrip.

If the spell requires a spell attack roll, you can choose to substitute the spell attack with a ranged attack using a firearm. Add the risk die to the firearm attack roll. On a hit, the attack deals its normal damage, in addition to the effects of the spell.

Overkill is a silly notion. You believe that holding down the trigger until your opponent resembles a fine cheese isn't just effective, it's the optimal way to begin and end any engagement. Like other storm gunners, you can rain bullets down on your foes with deadly precision, and favor tactics that involve sprinting around with a machine gun above all others.

By 7th level, you can use your action to load each firearm that has the Automatic property that you are holding with an extended belt of ammunition. While you are holding it, this weapon no longer needs to be reloaded, though it expends ammunition as normal.

Starting at 10th level, your base movement speed increases by 10 feet.

By 14th level, you can shape your cloud of bullets any way you wish. When you use a firearm with the Automatic property to attack automatically, you can choose to make the attacks without disadvantage. However, if a feature such as Mankiller would let you add an ability score to the damage roll, you don't add it to these attacks.

Additionally, if you possess an ability, such as the Spray and Pray feat, that allows you to target an area with weapon attacks, you can exclude any creature you choose in the area of effect from making saving throws or taking damage.

Accuracy means different things to different people. For you, true accuracy isn't necessarily in hitting a target on the first shot, but might include hitting the mark after the bullet bounces around a dozen times. Your attacks are just as dangerous if they miss, or even after hitting their mark, as others' are while they're still in the air.

By 7th level, you're just as good at escaping from trouble as you are at getting into it. Difficult terrain costs you no extra movement.

Starting at 10th level, as a reaction when an attacker you can see makes a ranged weapon attack against you, you can make an attack with a firearm you are holding to attempt to deflect the projectile. If your attack roll is higher than the attacker's, the attack targeting you has disadvantage. You must use this feature before you know the outcome of the attacker's attack roll.

Starting at 14th level, once per turn when you hit a creature with a ranged firearm attack, you can ricochet the bullet to hit an additional target. The second target must be within half the firearm's range of the first target. Make a separate attack roll for the second target. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier (a minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Someone wronged you, and you refuse to die before you've shot them dead. You believe that the gun is the ultimate tool of vengeance, the only means to redress the balance of blood. Maybe you were robbed, humiliated, or left for dead; maybe you were even killed, but were later returned to life with hate overflowing your heart. Regardless of how you were first damned, you'll be damned twice before you let them get away with it.

By 7th level, nothing shakes your resolve. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Starting at 10th level, with a cold glare and the barrel of a gun in someone's face, you can always get the answers you want to hear. You have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks you make while holding a firearm, and you can treat a roll of 10 or lower as a 10.

By 14th level, you feel an adrenaline burst whenever you exact vengeance. When you roll initiative, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. If you reduce that creature to 0 hit points on your turn within the next minute, you gain one additional action, which can be used to take the Attack, Dash, Dodge, Disengage, or Hide action.

Some gunslingers live by a code and expect others to do the same. These gunslingers, known as white hats, sometimes serve as agents of local or regional law but never hesitate to do what's right no matter what the rules say. Despite their affinity for deadly weapons, white hats prefer to keep their friends safe and take their enemies in unharmed—a preference they find their enemies aren't often inclined to oblige.

At 7th level, you can use your action to call for your enemy's surrender. When you do, a creature of your choice within 30 feet who can see or hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier). Creatures that are immune to being frightened automatically succeed on this saving throw. If the creature's current hit points are equal to or greater than half of its hit point maximum, it has advantage on this saving throw.

On a failed save, the creature is incapacitated and its speed is reduced to 0 for 1 minute or until it takes any damage. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending this effect on a success.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

At 10th level, once per turn when you hit a Large or smaller creature with a firearm attack, you can choose to deal half as much damage to hobble the target. The creature can't move on its next turn unless it first takes the Disengage action.

At 14th level, your capacity for heroism increases. Your features from this archetype gain the following benefits: