Artevious de Poisson |
I'll be interested in seeing what a Swashbuckler + guns does in the place of my rather confusing collection of archetypes. I'll probably be looking at it sometime next week.
DM Shisumo |
Picaroon (Archetype)
While some swashbucklers take pride in their ability to wear down an opponent with great skill at arms and clever positioning, there are those who use firearms to get in close and hit hard.
Weapon Proficiency: A picaroon gains proficiency with all simple weapons and martial weapons, as well as one-handed firearms. This replaces the swashbuckler’s weapon proficiency.
Panache: Unlike other swashbucklers, a picaroon regains panache when she confirms a critical hit or makes a killing blow with a light or one-handed piercing melee weapon or a one-handed firearm. This ability alters panache.
Deeds: The picaroon gains the following deeds, each of which replaces an existing deed.
Melee Shooter (Ex): At 1st level, as a swift action when wielding both a light or one-handed piercing melee weapon and a one-handed firearm, the picaroon can spend 1 panache point to avoid provoking attacks of opportunity with the first ranged attack made by the one-handed firearm during her turn. This deed replaces opportune parry and riposte.
Quick Clear (Ex): At 3rd level, as a standard action the picaroon can spend 1 panache point to remove the broken condition from a single one-handed firearm she is currently wielding, as long as the firearm gained that condition through a misfire. This deed replaces kip-up.
Gun Feint (Ex): At 7th level, a picaroon can use the ferocious reputation of firearms to her advantage. A picaroon with at least 1 panache point can feint instead of attacking with her firearm as part of a full attack. She can spend 1 panache point to gain a +5 bonus on this check. This deed replaces superior feint.
Lightning Reload (Ex): At 11th level, once per round the picaroon can spend 1 panache point to reload a single barrel of a one-handed firearm as a swift action. If she has the Rapid Reload feat or is using an alchemical cartridge, she can instead reload a single barrel of the weapon as a free action each round. Using this deed doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity. This deed replaces bleeding wound.
Two-Weapon Finesse (Ex): At 2nd level, a picaroon gains the benefits of the Weapon Finesse feat with light or onehanded piercing melee weapons. She also gains the effect of the Two-Weapon Fighting feat as long as she is wielding a light or one-handed piercing melee weapon in one hand and one-handed firearm in the other hand. This ability counts as having both the Weapon Finesse and Two-Weapon Fighting feats for the purposes of meeting feat requirements. This ability replaces swashbuckler finesse.
Artevious de Poisson |
I'll likely not retool anything, but will probably start picking up Swashbuckler levels starting at level 5 (I get rapid reload for free at 4th).
Alamon Titus 'Chum' Seaborn |
Not even the PDFs? That's.... obnoxious.
Standard procedure is for the PDFs to be released when the account is charged (until then, I haven't paid for them) but they don't charge the account until the box is packed and ready to ship. A problem at the printer caused some of what was supposed to be in a lot of packages to repeatedly miss their ship dates.
In a nutshell, they kept holding out for product that they thought would be there the next day so they could ship it all at once. I'm sure if they had known how badly the printer was botching things up, they would have pushed the missing product back to September.
Now they have so many orders messed up that they cannot hope to manually fix all of the orders, so last night they were running code to fix them automatically.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth on the shipment thread is deafening.
Alamon Titus 'Chum' Seaborn |
At my house we are in the final run-up to our annual fall adventure. This year, we will not have access to wifi for at least four days. In addition, pressure at work related to my anticipated absence and ongoing major project may take me out of the game earlier than that and may keep me off the boards for a while after.
I wanted to post this to all my games while I could to explain that I may go silent for a while. I may get a few more posts in - I'm not sure when radio silence will begin. It could start as early as today - probably late tomorrow - and might run through the 26th if the project goes poorly.
Please don't let my absence stall the game. Bot me as necessary and we will pick up the pieces (or roll up my new character) when I return.
Peace.
Alamon Titus 'Chum' Seaborn |
Back from the trip. We hiked rim-to-rim at the Grand Canyon. It was hard, it was amazing, it was worth it, and I can't wait to return to do it again.
Will see tomorrow what work holds in store. That's going to impact posting availability - I just hope the vacation was enough to keep me sane over the next couple of weeks.