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Ultimate Combat introduced the Trophy Hunter archetype for rangers. It focuses on and implies firearm use, like the Holy Gun and Spellslinger archetypes. Unlike those, however, it doesn't get the Exotic Weapons Proficiency: Firearms or Gunsmithing feats which are both necessary for firearm use or the starting gun. There are several threads on the forums which discuss it and all agree that it SHOULD have them (with most house-ruling it), but no answer from anyone in Paizo to address the issue which, considering some of these threads are over a year old, is a little disappointing.
Based on the character concept of playing a proper english gentleman game hunter (like Van Pelt from Jumanji), I thought the Trophy Hunter would be perfect. Unfortunately, it becomes pointless if I've then either got to waste a level on gunslinger or burn my first 2 feats and 1200 gp to make it happen like it's supposed to.
It would be REALLY nice to get something from Paizo on this (or a link to errata if it exists) so that I can take it and use it in game.
Likely such a low priority you won't see anything anytime soon.
Just have the GM read it, I can't think of one that doesn't just houserule it right in, and if they don't, perhaps playing a firearms character isn't the best choice in their game anyways.
The only time that might be problematic would be for something like PFS organized play, and they don't allow that archetype anyways.
I get that it might be Low Priority, but you'd think at some point in the last 2 years it would've been addressed.
Lol. The Stealth skill errata was ... since the first printing obviously not viable... and we only got it a couple months ago.
A single archetype could be well into the next edition before we see it.
(Although they have been fairly active lately, and this would take a single line in the book to fix.)
Sort of my point. Just amending the Firearm Style ability to add the wording from Holy Gun's "Have Gun" ability that mentions firearms and the Gunsmithing feat would be a huge help.