
- #DMG FIREARMS 5E UPDATE#
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Most recent update to the Gunslinger makes it harder to recharge your grit
#DMG FIREARMS 5E SERIES#
Than by resting, which helps when you’re in a long series of fights. You recharge grit points by shooting stuff rather Pick up 6 more over the rest of your career, so you’ll get most of the 8Īdept Marksman also gives you a pool of Grit Points which you’ll use toįuel your abilities.
Adept Marksman: Trick Shots are the most. Tinker’s Tools are used to repair yourįirearms, and the more you fight the more frequently you’ll be repairing a Gunsmith: Tinker’s Tools will prove to beĪn important part of your character. OfĬourse, waiting for your subclass to get proficiency means that you spent Subclasses – Gunslingerįirearms is obviously important for a character built around firearms. You can still do two-weapon fighting without the fighting style,Īnd Archery will probably net better damage output. Still isn’t a good proposition for fighters because the math simply doesn’t Makes dual wielding pistols a possibility. Management and Quickdraw you can easily avoid reloading in combat. Two-Weapon Fighting PHB: Pistols can fire four shots before reloading, and with some simple. Great Weapon Fighting PHB: A possibility for muskets, but muskets aren’t good enough to justify. Dueling PHB: +2 damage while using a single pistol. Defense PHB: You’re fighting at range, so AC isn’t quite as important as it is for. Where a 20th-level character can expect a maximum of +11 to hit. Archery PHB: The obvious choice for ranged builds. For more on the Fighter’s class features, see my Fighter Handbook.įighting Style: One of the Fighter’s iconicĪbilities, your choice of fighting style has a significant effect on which This article presents a subset of the Fighter’s class features specifically relevant to the Gunslinger. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. RPGBOT is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Keep in mind that the state of the meta periodically changes as new source materials are released and this article will be updating accordingly as time allows.
The advice offered below is based on the current State of the Character Optimization Meta as of when the article was last updated. I also won’t cover Unearthed Arcana content because it’s not finalized, and I can’t guarantee that it will be available to you in your games. I will not include 3rd-party content, including content from DMs Guild, even if it is my own, because I can’t assume that your game will allow 3rd-party content or homebrew.
Blue: Fantastic options, often essential. Red: Bad, useless options, or options whichĪre extremely situational.
RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks, which is simple to understand and easy to read at a glance.
Example Build – Variant Human Fighter (Gunslinger). The Gunslinger was originally adapted from the Pathfinder RPG when the Critical Roll podcast migrated from Pathfinder to 5th Edition DnD, and there are still a handful of things which call back to the Pathfinder rules.īecause the Gunslinger is a fighter subclass, it may be helpful to check ma Fighter Handbook for additional advice. You choose a set of “Trick Shots” which let you expend a limited resource pool (grit points) to do some extra stuff on top of attacking and dealing damage. The Gunslinger is in many ways similar to the Battlemaster fighter. While there are numerous homebrew incarnations of a gunslinger class or archetype, Matt Mercers has gained a great deal of traction in the DnD community, and I have received numerous requests to cover it.
This handbook is for version 1.3 of Matt Mercer’s Gunslinger ( Affiliate Link).