Z's Cowboy Gunslinger

Introduction

"To the town of Agua Fría rode a stranger one fine day.

Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say.

No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip.

For the stranger, there, among them, had a big iron on his hip."

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per gunslinger level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 5 (or 1d8) + your Constitution modifier per gunslinger level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor.
• Weapons: All simple weapons, all ranged weapons, lassos and all firearms.
• Tools: One artisan's tools and either one musical instrument or one gaming set.
• Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two between Sleight of Hand, Acrobatics, Stealth, Survival, Perception, Insight and Intimidation.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) A revolver or (b) a rifle.
• (a) An explorer’s pack or (b) a burglar's pack.
• Any simple weapon.
• Leather armor.

Iron Sight

Your gun's default sight. Its properties are not altered.

No Sight

Your gun’s normal and long ranges are reduced to 1/4 (15/60ft for a revolver and 20/80ft for a rifle), but you gain a +2 bonus to hit to any ranged attack rolls you make with it.

Scope

Both your gun’s normal and long range are doubled, and you ignore both half and 3/4 cover, but any ranged attack roll you make with it suffers a -2 penalty.

You can use your action to change a firearm's sight.

(7th level) Counter-Bullet

As a reaction when you see an enemy cast a spell, you can spend 2 LPs to shoot said enemy with the intent of interrupting the casting. Make an attack roll, the target AC of which equals 10 + the spell’s level. On a hit, the creature’s spell fails and has no effect. The spell still consumes the required resources, such as spell slots. The enemy is unharmed.

(7th level) Exposing Shot

The target's Armor Class is reduced by 2 points until the start of your next turn.

(9th level) Compelling Shot

You demand the target's attention, forcing them to keep an eye on you. The target has disadvantage on attack rolls against and can't make opportunity attacks targeting creatures other than you. This effect lasts until one of your allies attacks the target or affects it with a spell, or until you end your turn more than 60ft away from the target.

The Desperado

"There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play

And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today

Texas Red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped

And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip."

Swift and nimble, desperados are often able to take down the deadliest of foes before they even have the chance to act which, added to how difficult they are to pin down, makes them a constant threat on the battlefield.

Sniper

When you choose this Path at 3rd level, you learn how to mitigate a scope's drawbacks in certain situations. Being prone no longer imposes disadvantage on ranged firearm attacks, and you ignore a scope's penalty to attack rolls whenever you are prone or have half or 3/4 cover from the target

Quick Reload

Starting at 3rd level, you can reload your weapon as a bonus action as long as you haven't moved that turn, and you can't move after doing so. You may also reload as part of the Dash action.

Cover Master

Starting at 6th level, you learn how to most effectively use cover. Half cover grants you a +3 instead of a +2 and 3/4 cover grants you a +6 instead of a +5 bonus to AC and dexterity savingthrows.

Quiet

Beginning at 6th level, you learn how to silence your shots. As a bonus action, you can significantly reduce the noise your next ranged firearm attack generates. The shot will be heard from 15ft instead of 300 if its made with a rifle or 10ft instead of 100 if made with a revolver.

Hollow-Point Bullets

Beginning at 11th level, whenever you land a critical hit and choose to increase the attack's damage, you roll thrice as many dice to calculate the damage dealt instead of twice.

Elite Sniper

Also at 11th level, you can make the most out of using a scope to land more precise shots. Whenever you use your Sniper feature, you not only negate the scope's attack penalty but also grant that attack's damage a bonus equal to your charisma modifier.

Yuyan of the West

Starting at 15th level, you can take a deep breath and unnatural focus to land impossible shots. Whenever you are about to make a Deadeye attack, you can spend 1 LP to either give it unlimited range, meaning you may target anything as lons as you can see it and bypass any range restrictions, or make the attack hit automatically.

Firearms

Firearms are their own category of ranged weapons. The damage of ranged firearm attacks cannot be reduced by the Monk's Deflect Missiles ability or any similar ability.

A character needs to be proficient with firearms to use them. A character who is not proficient with firearms can acquire this proficiency by spending 100 hours training with a firearm, spending 50 bullets every hour. Once these conditions are met, the character becomes proficient with both revolvers and rifles.

A revolver shot can be heard up to 100ft away, and a rifle shot up to 300ft.

Range

A firearm's range is written as x/y ft, where x is the gun's normal range and y is the long range. You can shoot enemies that are within your long range at disadvantage, and those that are within your normal range without disadvantage. You cannot shoot enemies that are not within your long range distance.

Reload

The weapon can be fired a number of times equal to its reload score before you must spend 1 attack or 1 action to reload. You must have one free hand to reload a firearm. This is a different reload mechanic from the DMG's, unique to the revolvers and rifles included in this class.

Light

You can wield a revolver in one hand and another weapon or a shield in the other as long as you have the required proficiencies.

Dual-Wielding

You can only dual-wield revolvers. Unlike dual-wielding melee weapons, dual-wielding does not allow you to make any extra attacks as a bonus action.

Two-handed

To shoot a rifle, you must have both hands free.

Dynamite Sticks

Dynamite sticks are an optional addition that comes with this class. You can choose to have them in your game or not, as they can be used by any class, or even NPCs with no class such as commoners.

You can hurl a dynamite stick as an action up to 30 ft from you. It then explodes at the start of your next turn, dealing 6d6 fire damage to any creature, item that is not being worn or carried and structure within 15 ft of the explosion. Creatures and items are pushed 10ft away from the explosion

If a dynamite sick or pack takes at least one point of fire damage, it explodes instantly. The dynamite has an AC of 20 and can only be targeted with an attack once it has already landed on the ground.

You may tie a dynamite pack or stick to an arrow as a bonus action, in which case the dynamite travels with the arrow. If the attack is a critical hit, the arrow sticks to the target.

Lasso

Lassos are similar to nets, but they have a 30/60ft range.

Weight

If you use the encumbrance mechanics in your game, a revolver weights 3 lb and a rifle 10 lb, and their ammunition 0.01 and 0.02 lb. Dynamite sticks weight 0.1 lb, and lassos 0.5.

CQC Expert

Prequisite: Desperado

You develop a new fighting style for close-quarter fights based around revolvers, gaining these benefits whenever you use one:

• Attacks made against enemies within 5ft of you gain a bonus to their damage equal to your charisma modifier if the revolver is sightless.

• You ignore half and 3/4 cover when attacking with a firearm within normal range.

• During your turn, if you hit a creature with an attack, that creature can't make opportunity attacks against you for the rest of your turn.

Lucky Shooter

You learn how to better implement luck in your fighting style, gaining these benefits:

• Before you make an attack with a ranged weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to take a +5 bonus to the attack roll. If that attack hits, its damage takes a -10 penalty, to a minimum of 1 point of damage.

• Your firearms' normal range is extended to be equal to their long range.

• You gain one extra Luck Point whenever you roll for initiative, up to your maximum LP capacity. You only gain this benefit if you have the Fortune Favors the Bold feature.

Twice as Deadly

Prequisite: Desperado

You are now so skilled in using revolvers that you can wield and shoot two of them at the same time, gaining these benefits when you do so:

• You can make twice as many attacks whenever you take the Attack action. When you use this ability you don't add your dexterity modifier to the attack rolls nor damage of those attacks, even if you instead make Deadeye attacks. Critical hits can only increase the damage of these attacks to 3d4, instead of 4d4.

• You can reload every revolver you are wielding, even if you have no free hands, as a bonus action.

In addition, you can now draw or stow two revolvers when you would normally be able to draw or stow only one.

Powder Ganger

You become an expert in the use of explosives, gaining these benefits:

• You can, as an action, tie up to 4 dynamite sticks together to make a dynamite pack, increasing the damage by 2d6 and how far objects and creatures are pushed away by 5ft each each.

• You can throw dynamite sticks and packs as a bonus action and twice as far.

• After you throw a dynamite stick or pack as a bonus action, you can target it at any point of its trajectory with a ranged firearm attack. When shot using this feature the dynamite has an AC of 20, exploding immediately if a shot lands, and you add your charisma modifier to the damage of the explosion.