Can a Gunslinger choose to deliberately misfire?

[Hobokhajiit]

Let's say a character's been overrun, wants to end that character on a heroic action, could they deliberately cause their firearm to misfire to deal damage to every creature in the radius?

[Drahliana Moonrunner]

No... that's why it's called a misfire.

[drumlord]

I don't think that is allowed by the rules.

If you're going for heroic death, it might make more sense to shoot your own black powder pouch or pouch holding alchemical cartridges. That is also not covered in the rules but if I were GM, I'd allow a pretty big bang.

[Hobokhajiit]

Drahliana Moonrunner wrote:

No... that's why it's called a misfire.

Which can be caused by all manner of things, namely overdose of powder for one, which is what I was thinking along the lines of.

drumlord wrote:

I don't think that is allowed by the rules.

If you're going for heroic death, it might make more sense to shoot your own black powder pouch or pouch holding alchemical cartridges. That is also not covered in the rules but if I were GM, I'd allow a pretty big bang.

Thanks for the answer, probably what I'll go with in the event of a horde.

[Scythia]

In the same way that you can't decide to make your next shot a crit (barring special abilities), I would likewise say you can't decide to make your shot a misfire (which is essentially a critical fumble by another name).

[johnnythexxxiv]

I'd be okay with it. You are allowed to purposely fail a saving throw or skill check, so I see little reason to not allow you to purposely fail an attack. If you want to critically fail the attack, go for it.

[Brain in a Jar]

By the rules you cant.

[deuxhero]

From the prospective of reality with hand loads purposefully rigging a load to be hazardous would be trivial (not that there is a use for this beyond booby traps), but impossible to do when firing.