"...and the fact that your guns have 'Replica' written along the sides, and my gun has 'Desert Eagle .50' written down the side should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. Now, fuck off."
Guns are okay, but nothing special. Indeed, they pack more of a punch than a sword in the hands of a normal guy, but less than a sword in the hands of a great master who cleaves dragons. Unless you're a Gun Mage. Gun Mages make their bullets hit hard and fast, but even worse, they channel spells through the bullets to blow people up.
Alignment: any
Ability Scores: Intelligence is the primary ability score for the Gun Mage, but a good Dexterity will go a long way as well. After that, Constitution is quite handy, and everything else is optional, as fits your concept.
Races: anyone with hands can be a Gun Mage. Gnomes and Goblins like crafting guns, so are frequently seen following this path, and Elfs like not being adjacent to people they kill and enjoy playing with magic, so they too fit it well. Humans have a thing for shooting people in the face. Strong races tend not to be so great at it.
Hit Dice: 1d6
Skill Points: 4+Int
BAB: Good
Saving Throws: Good Reflex
Class Skills: Appraise, Craft, Gather Information, Intimidate, Know (Any). Sense Motive, Spot
Weapon Proficiencies: Simple Weapons, Hand Crossbows, all Pistols
Armour Proficiencies: Light Armour
Level:
Special:
01
Spell Shooting I, Quick Draw
02
Shooting Range +5', Danger Sense
03
+1d6 Bullet Hell, Rebound Shot
04
Shooting Range +10'
05
Spell Shooting II
06
Shooting Range +15', +2d6 Bullet Hell
07
Rapid Reload
08
Shooting Range +20', Spell Shooting III
09
+3d6 Bullet Hell, Crack Shot
10
Shooting Range +25', Homing Shot
11
Spell Storing IV, Teleport Shot
12
+4d6 Bullet Hell, Spell Tracing
13
Explosive Ammunition 5'
14
Spell Shooting V
15
+5d6 Bullet Hell
16
Explosive Ammunition 10'
17
Spell Shooting VI
18
+6d6 Bullet Hell
19
Explosive Ammunition 15'
20
Golden Bullet
Spells Per Day:
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Spellcasting: the Gun Mage casts Arcane spells, and automatically knows all spells on her class list. She suffers no Arcane Spell Failure while wearing armour she is proficient with, and cast spontaneously. Intelligence is used to determine Save DCs, bonus spells per day and whether she can even cast spells of that level.
Spell Shooting (Su): the Gun Mage can channel her spells (even those gained through other classes) through her bullets. At first level this only applies to 1st-level spells, but at level 5 and every three levels thereafter, the limit increases by 1. This is a Standard action, and involves making a ranged attack as normal. If the attack hits, then apply damage as normal but also apply the effects against the target. If there is a saving throw other than Reflex, the target is still entitled to the regular save. If there is an attack roll, treat it as having succeeded. Spell Resistance still applies, but with a bonus to the check equal to the Enhancement bonus (if any) of the gun. If the spell has an area of effect, centre it on the location of the target.
If used when wielding a Hand Cannon or Duo Cannon, then only one target in the area may be selected (declared before shooting), and they must fail the Reflex save to be affected.
Quick Draw (Ex): the Gun Mage can always draw a pistol as a Free action.
Shooting Range (Ex): at second level, the range increments of pistols wielded by the Gun Mage increase by 5'. This increases by another 5' every even level, up to a maximum of +25' at level 10. For the Hand Cannon and Duo Cannon, this instead is added to the cone length and width.
Danger Sense: at bullet level, the Gun Mage gains Danger Sense as a bonus feat.
Bullet Hell (Su): at every third level, the Gun Mage gains +1d6 Bullet Hell. Each round, on her turn, she may apply all Bullet Hell damage to the first successful hit with a Pistol, adding it to the base damage.
Rebound Shot (Ex): at level three onwards, the Gun Mage can make trick shots that bounce around. She can shoot around corners (though suffers a 50% Miss Chance if she cannot see the target), and if the DM tries to use some rules regarding facing, she can tell them to fuck off.
Rapid Reload (Ex): beginning at level seven, the Gun Mage can reload her weapon at blinding speeds. Reloading a Pistol becomes a Free action.
Crack Shot (Ex): starting at level nine, the Gun Mage makes incredible shots with crazy good accuracy. With a Standard action, she may fire a shot that ignores range penalties (but is still limited by maximum range), has a +4 Competence bonus to hit (or to the Save DC) and has a doubled threat range. Alternatively, she may perform this as a Full Round action, channeling a spell in the process. If she does so, this provokes attacks of opportunities, but the +4 bonus also applies to the Save DC of her spell (if any).
Homing Shot (Su): beginning at level ten, the Gun Mage can start to shoot people when she really shouldn't be able to. With a Standard action she may fire her weapon, ignoring Cover, Concealment, Miss Chances and the target's Dexterity bonus to AC. She doesn't even need line of sight, but must know they exist.
Teleport Shot (Sp): at level eleven, the Gun Mage learns how to teleport bullets from the gun into people, or very close to them. She may use a Standard action to ignore line of effect as long as she has line of sight, and to score an automatic hit. Roll to see if a critical threat occurs - if it does, it automatically confirms.
Spell Tracing (Sp): atarting at level twelve, magical lines follow the pullets, allowing for spell paths to occur. As a Standard action she may fire in a line, not even at a target, and rebounding the bullet off surfaces, and cast any Wall spell she knows (providing she has a spell slot available). The Wall follows the path of the bullet. If the bullet ends up inside someone, the effect ends in their square.
Explosive Ammunition (Su): at levels thirteen, sixteen and nineteen, the Gun Mage's bullets become more explosive. If a target is hit, the bullet explodes outwards, and anyone within the indicated radius (5, 10 or 15') must make a Reflex save or also take damage as though hit by the bullet. The DC is Int-based. When firing a Hand Cannon or Duo Cannon, she instead adds the indicated distance to the length and width of the cone (on top of that gained from Shooting Range).
Golden Bullet (Ex): at level twenty the Gun Mage shoots the setting's gods in the face and wins the game. She can also use Spell Shooting to channel spells of any level, even levels she can't yet cast. Once per day she may win the game once more.
Gun Mage Spell List:
1st Level: Burning Rage, Daze, Detect Magic, Light, Ray of Enfeeblement, Reduce Person, Shocking Grasp, Sleep, Tough of Fatigue, True Strike
2nd Level: Blindness/Deafness, Glitterdust, Knock, Protection From Arrows, Web, Scare, Touch of Idiocy, Vertigo
3rd Level: Assay Resistance, Burning Blood, Confusion, Curse of Arrow Attraction, Deep Slumber, Fireball, Hesitate, Ray of Exhaustion, Slashing Dispel, Shadow Spray
4th Level: Disintegrate, Eyebite, Feeblemind, Friend to Foe, Greater Dispel, Prismatic Ray, Telekinesis, True Seeing, Wall of Fire, Wall of Ice
5th Level: Banishment, Blackfire, Finger of Death, Flensing, Greater Arcane Sight, Insanity, Maze, Plague, Wall of Force, Wall of Thorns
6th Level: Detonate, Energy Drain, Foresight, Imprisonment, Otto's Irresistible Dance, Prismatic Wall, Trap the Soul
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All of the following weapons count as Pistols for the purpose of proficiency and class features. Proficiency is Simple, however Martial Weapon Proficiency (Pistols) is required to reload them properly: a Swift action can reload a Pistol with proficiency, otherwise it takes a Move-Equivalent action that provokes Attacks of Opportunity.
A magic Pistol grants all magical effects (including Enhancement bonus to hit and damage) upon its ammunition.
Pistol:
Range Increments: 10'
Ammunition: Pistol Bullets
Payload: 1 shot
Cost: 50 GP
Revolver:
Range Increments: 10'
Ammunition: Pistol Bullets
Payload: 6 shots
Cost: 750 GP
Hand Cannon:
Range Increments: -
Ammunition: Buck Shot
Payload: 1 shot
Cost: 100 GP
Special: Enhancement bonus is applied to Save DC and damage
Duo-Cannon:
Range Increments: -
Ammunition: Buck Shot
Payload: 2 shots
Cost: 350 GP
Special: Enhancement bonus is applied to Save DC and damage
Duelling Pistol:
Range Increments: 20'
Ammunition: High-Caliber Bullets, Death Whisper Bullets
Payload: 4 shots
Cost: 1,500 GP
Executioner:
Range Increments: 100'
Ammunition: High-Caliber Bullets
Payload: 1 shot
Cost: 1,000 GP
Special: 2-handed weapon
Ammunition:
Ammunition may be made of special materials for the usual amount.
Pistol Bullets:
Cost per dozen: 2 GP
Damage: 2d4
Critical: 20/x3
Special: -
Buck Shot:
Cost per dozen: 5 GP
Damage: 2d6
Critical: none
Special: fired in a 15' cone, Ref half (DC 10 + half HD + Int modifier)
High-Caliber Bullets:
Cost per dozen: 20 GP
Damage: 3d6
Critical: 19-20/x3
Special: -
Death Whisper Bullets:
Cost per dozen: 500 GP
Damage: 2d6
Critical: 19-20/x3
Special: the tip is a hollow container with a Fire Trap effect, CL 1
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Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
I disagree on the hands caveat. It should be totally possible to play a worg or gryphon or something with cannons strapped to it's back.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Should I just assume any spells I don't recognize appear in the Spell Compendium?
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Actually in this case I only happened to have a few books on me (most still being in storage boxes in Adelaide as we haven't secured a house yet). So if it's not PHB/SRD, then it's CompArc or PHBII, because I happened to have those on me.
I'm sure there was a book with a spell that just sets someone on fire. Definitely add that.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
Bad. Ass. +5. My only confusion, slugs fire in a cone?
And lightning split the sky like a mile tall electrostatic spark, booming like thousands of cubic feet of air undergoing thermal expansion.
I could form a lucid, logical, and wise argument to refute your statement, but instead I'm going to take the moral low-ground and call your mother a whore.
Koumei wrote:
Bullet Hell (Su): at every third level, the Gun Mage gains +1d6 Bullet Hell. Each round, on her turn, she may apply all Bullet Hell damage to the first successful hit with a Pistol, adding it to the base damage.
Is that just extra damage, like a Sneak attack, or is that multiplied on a critical hit, too?
Rebound Shot (Ex): at level three onwards, the Gun Mage can make trick shots that bounce around. She can shoot around corners (though suffers a 50% Miss Chance if she cannot see the target), and if the DM tries to use some rules regarding facing, she can tell them to fuck off.
So, you ignore cover, right? And there should be some rules on rebounds. Angle of Incidence equals angle of refraction?
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
It's extra damage dice, just like Sneak Attack, Flaming Swords and so on. Extra dice never multiply unless it specifically says it does.
And yeah, I guess it ignores cover or something. I dunno. Mostly it's there for "Shoot around corners in dungeons" and bouncing Line spells around later on.
As for slug shot: it's a shotgun. The pistol is your old shitty musket-era pistol. The Hand Cannon is a sawn-off shotgun (and the duo is double-barrelled). The duelling pistol plays children's card games is a fancy, long-barrelled revolver like a Magnum Blackhawk or a dainty and fancy one like anything wielded by Rozalin (Disgaea 2).
So shotguns for slug shot. Which is a spray of lead pellets. Unless I'm using the wrong term. I don't actually have much interest in guns.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
Slugs are the big solid-piece bullets. Shot is the spray of smaller pellets. Grapeshot, maybe. I'm a little fuzzy on that, myself.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Slug shots are solid slugs of metal. The term you're looking for is Birdshot or Buckshot, for lots of balls crammed into a single shell. Grapeshot is like buckshot, but for cannons.
Oh right. Yeah, Buck Shot then. I was just going by a cocktail recipe Stephen Fry did that calls for "a finger of slug shot" and he clearly poured buckshot in.
Note that I'm not interested in guns, and come from a country where even pictures of guns are highly illegal (in case that sounds like I'm a crazy gun person calling for American laws, rest assured, I think it's a good thing. I have never been shot, which is pretty sweet.) Just be lucky that there's nothing more advanced than the single-shot rifle (yes, the two-handed "pistol" is a rifle, it falls under the same proficiency and class features etc.)
If there was a modern SMG etc. then I'd refer to loading a clip into it. Which apparently shits Americansgun-nuts Americans up the wall.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
The timing of Spell Shot seems odd - specifically, how it's always one level behind your normal spell access. For a Gun Mage class, I'm not a big fan of incentives to spend your turn not shooting things. And even if having that trade-off was the intent, it's inconsistent, because 2/3 of the time it doesn't even apply.
Oh snap. It's a typo, you get the normal save unless it's Ref, in which case you don't because you already had your chance to dodge (the attack roll).
As for the delay, it's just to stagger the stuff you gain from the class a little bit, that's all. After all, gaining a new level of spells is a real ability.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
