Gunslinger

The desperado fights with skill, reflexes, and a quick trigger finger. Her movements are crisp and sharp, faster than the average person can track. Those following this path drill their motions until they surpass normal mortal limits.

By 6th level, you've learned to keep a close eye on your surroundings, and a close hand on your gun. You add your proficiency bonus to any initiative check.

Furthermore, during the first round of combat in which you are not surprised, you can spend a Grit point to make a single attack with a one-handed firearm at your initiative + 10. Afterward, initiative proceeds as normal.

Starting at 10th level, you've learned to tumble away from ranged attacks. Whenever you are on the ground and take damage from a source more than 10 feet away which you can see, you may use your reaction to dodge out of the way of further assault, moving a distance up to half your movement speed, and if you move at least 5 feet, reducing the damage by an amount equal to your Dexterity modifier. While moving in this manner, enemies have disadvantage on attacks of opportunity made against you.

Starting at 14th level you can attack three times, instead of two, whenever you take the attack action on your turn.

At 17th level, Quick Draw no longer consumes Grit. In addition, you have advantage on any initiative check, and you are unable to be surprised while you are conscious.

A gunsmith is an eccentric arcane tinkerer, unafraid of taking risks or personally modifying their firearms. They learn by improving their existing creations and building new guns. Each new creation is a stepping stone to something greater. Those following this Trail use their intelligence to forge weapons and ammunition unparalleled in the rest of the world.

Some Gunsmith features require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature's effects. The saving throw DC is equivalent to your Grit save DC.

When you reach 6th level, your skills at modifying and creating weapons have noticeably grown. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check which uses Tinker's Tools. In addition, you've learned how to modify your guns to pull latent magic from the world around them. From now on, any attack made with a gun you've modified is treated as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity.

At 10th level, your experiments with arcane technologies led you to an explosive, yet useful, discovery. When a creature moves within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to detonate a shaped explosive charge between you and the creature. The creature loses its reaction, and must make a Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone by the blast, while you ride the shockwave 15 feet directly away from the creature. You cannot use this feature while prone.

You can create one shaped explosive charge during a short or long rest. Unfortunately, the chemicals within each charge are volatile, and only retain their potency until the beginning of your next short or long rest.

Beginning at the 14th level, you can craft special ammo for your firearms with an arcane crystal core, which can be imbued with certain magical effects when fired. Each round of special ammo must be crafted during a long rest, and only retains its special effects until your next long rest. You can craft and store a number of specialty rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 round) during a long rest.

Upon loading a gun, you must declare how many specialty rounds (if any) that you are loading into the gun. Once a piece of specialty ammo has been loaded into a gun, you may expend it as part of any attack you make with that gun. You may only use one piece of specialty ammo per attack action. When you fire the round, you may imbue it with any effect from the following list:

Starting at the 17th level, your long, hard hours at a workbench and in the field have paid off, giving you a master's grasp of tinkering and guncrafting. Whenever you would suffer a misfire, you may choose to ignore it. You must complete a short or long rest before using this ability again.

To those unaware of the discovery of black powder, a firearm may seem mystical. An observer could see the fire bursting out of metal tubes, mistaking it for some kind of wizard's spell. Some gunslingers embrace this misconception, combining their marksmanship with arcane prowess.

When you join this trail at 3rd level, you are able to load your with gun with ammunition pulled from the aether. When you reload your firearm, you can instead choose to reload your it with temporary ammunition, which is only usable for one minute before fading away into nothing. This ammunition deals force damage instead of the firearm's regular damage type. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Beginning at 6th level, you have learned to shoot your opponents beyond the limits of natural law. If your firearm is ready to fire, you can choose to spend 1 grit point to cast magic missile at 1st level, consuming the readied round of ammunition as a spell component. The damage type of the spell is instead the damage type of the firearm used. This does not count against your list of learned spells and does not use up a spell slot.

Starting at 10th level, you can disappear to escape harm's way and reappear to return fire. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see and may make one firearm attack with disadvantage. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

At 14th level, through your gun, you learn to mark your enemies with your essence. When you hit a creature with an Aimed Shot, Trick Shot, or Violent Shot, you have advantage on spell attacks against it and it has disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes against a spell you cast before the end of your next turn.

Upon 17th level, you are able to infuse your bullets with spells. As an action, you can spend a number of grit points equal to the spell level used to imbue a spell of 1st level or higher into a round of ammunition you are holding. You cast the spell as normal, but the spell effect does not occur until after the ammunition is used in an attack. You can only imbue a spell that affects one creature or a spell that has an area such as a sphere, cloud, or cylinder. The ammunition holds the spell effect until the end of your next long rest or until it is used in an attack that hits.

If you cast a spell that affects one creature, the next time the imbued ammunition hits a creature with an attack, the attack deals damage as normal, and then you resolve the spell's effect against the target. If you imbued a spell that has an area, the creature does not need to be hit for the spell to take effect. Instead, you resolve the spell's effect from the space or creature you targeted. If the ammunition hits a creature, damage is dealt as normal. Once you resolve the spell's effect, the spell vanishes from the ammunition.

The sniper uses analytical and observational skills to take out foes from afar. Snipers will patiently watch their targets for hours, waiting until all of the right conditions in the environment, positioning, and their own reflexes are ideal before making their move. When they do, they leave a splatter across the ground and thunderous sound through the air without ever being seen.

At 6th level, you further hone your deadly accuracy. You can use an action or a bonus action to make a Wisdom (Perception) on a creature you see. The DC is equal to its Dexterity score. If you succeed, for the next minute your next ranged weapon attack against that target gains the following benefits.

By taking an action to use this feature, the attack gains the following additional benefits.

At 10th level, you learn optimal and stable positions for firing. While prone, you gain advantage on making Dexterity (Stealth) checks and you are able to make ranged weapon attack rolls without disadvantage.

Also, when you are targeted by a ranged weapon attack by an enemy you are aware of, you can use a reaction to immediately drop prone, imposing disadvantage on the attack.

Starting at 14th level, you learn how to hit multiple targets with a single shot. You can spend 1 grit point before making an attack roll with a firearm that deals piercing damage. If the attack hits, you can make an attack roll against every creature in a line directly behind the target within your first range increment. Only the initial attack can misfire.

At 17th level, hitting your enemies' vitals becomes natural to you. Your critical range with a firearm increases to 18-20.

Additionally, you no longer need to make a Wisdom (Perception) check to use your Lock On feature.