More Pathfinder

[brushwolf]

Pathfinder's "Gunslinger" class is a thing of beauty and also seems ridiculously impractical. The Mysterious Stranger archetype runs off of Charisma, so that really opens up the class to halflings (who'd also have the high dexterity desired in a ranged combatant) and gnomes (who make sense as gunsmiths), although the usual wisdom requirement makes me wince. I am not going to think too hard about playing Inari-no-Teppo, kitsune gunslinger extraordinaire.

But... your character's based around something which makes crossbows look appealingly fast (maybe it's assumed you carry more than one gun, Iron Kingdoms fashion?); you'll need Rapid Reload, you need Dodge and Mobility to get any of the really good grit feats and like any other ranged combatant you'll need Point Blank shot and Precise Shot. So either your character is at least a 5th level human or a 7th level something else before you can have a chance at the two seriously cool grit feats, Deft Shootist (don't provoke AoOs when shooting at something in the next space) or Leaping Shot Deed (the gun equivalent to Shot on the Run or Spring Attack). And by that point an actual bow using archer would be dealing out more damage and faster.

Someone, please tell me that I'm wrong about this. Gunslingers are thematic and cool and I really want to play one in some hypothetical future.

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[brushwolf]

Naw, this is more academic curiosity in case I wind up playing Pathfinder in the future sometime. Pathfinder inherits the 3.5 thing where if you're not powergaming, you're ineffective, and I keep seeing it places like say crossbows - it's entirely possible that Gunslinger is one of those places.