

She gains a bonus equal to her Dexterity modifier on damage rolls when firing that type of firearm.

Starting at 5th level, a gunslinger can select one specific type of firearm (such as an axe musket, blunderbuss, musket, or pistol). If you lose Gun Training 1, it can never scale with level. There aren't multiple class features called Gun Training, there's one Gun Training that scales with level. Which would mean those weapons cannot be selected for further training, as they are already considered to have been selected, via the pistol training ability?ĭevastation Bob wrote: MS only loses the 1st gun-training, it gets the other ones. Perhaps, the way the rules were intended to work is, pistolero's pistol training counts as gun training would for every one-handed firearm. It's possible that the stacking gun training is RAI, but if it is it makes Pistoleros just insane.
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It's a worse fighting style, so to help it compensate, they get Rapid Reload for free - a feat the weapon needs in order to be basically functional.

Musket Masters get an extra feat because Muskets are, without the help from archetypes, worse weapons. Even ignoring other stuff and somewhat conservatively assuming only 16 Dex, you're starting out atĪnd the gulf only grows wider and wider, and that's before you factor in Up Close and Deadly. As Ultimate Combat has been out so long without a word one way or the other, I'm guessing it's not coming though.Ĭomparing max rolls is way less useful or informative than comparing average rolls, and no gunslinger is going to only have a 14 in Dex by level 5. Regardless, I would love a clarification or revision from Paizo on this. You could also burn a feat for weapon proficiency (firearms) and use gun training on non-pistol weapons for versatility. You'd still be limited to half the range of a musket and not be doing as much damage without grit. Sure it can be hacked, but I think I understand the intent at work here, even if the execution isn't perfect. This is just using innate damage bonuses, and not factoring in up close and deadly, or other abilities.
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Factor into that that pistols, depending on type, have half the range increment and do almost but not quite half the damage, and the two seem almost even to me.ĮX: we'll say DEX mod for the example is 2. But comparing musket master to pistolero, the musket master gets a bonus feat the pistolero does not, essentially making reloading just as fast as pistols, but for the higher-damage outputting muskets. Sure, as written, you'd get 2xDEX bonus damage, assuming you're using your gun training on pistols. Am I missing something?Īddendum: As for the pistolero misprint issue, I'm not convinced it isn't RAI. The deed you gain to add damage output instead costs grit to use, and even though it multiples with dead shot, it also never increments and still seems exceedingly lackluster. Sure, ignoring misfires for weapons is OK, but if you look at Musket Training or Pistol Training, they both state that at a certain level (which is high, I know, BUT) you don't misfire with that weapon type at all. So already, you lose, outright.īut the MS also never gains an innate damage to bonus. I understand you lose quick-clear, so this kind of makes up for that, but there's something wrong here. You lose the ability to add bonus damage based on your DEX mod at lvl 5 (which also slowly increments at later levels) in order to ignore a number of misfires up to your CHA modifier per day. And in a flawless sweep of it's hand, the MS loses much of its capability to deal damage, compared to any other archtype except for maybe gun tank. True, it might help with point buy, but WIS is useful enough on its own that this doesn't seem like a highly favorable trade.Īnd then there's stranger's fortune. The CHA instead of WIS for grit doesn't have an obvious advantage to me, other than maybe complimenting a RP character. Nimble is defensive, so this seems like a 1:1 swap. The luck bonus and deed replacements are OK. Mostly, what I want to know is, does anyone else think the MS is severely underpowered? I am not posting this only as a gripe, but if anyone can point out a strong advantage I missed, I would appreciate it. I know about the MS/pistolero thing already.
