Gunner

The Rune Stone Battery option that you can acquire for your rune cannon allows you to have a battery that the rune cannon uses for its attacks so that the rune cannon's Soul cost does not affect you. But, once the Soul runs out, you are left with an empty ylem stone attached to your rune cannon. This ability allows you to overcharge the stone, using the same rules that apply to making rune stones. If the ylem stone can normally take 20 Soul, this allows you to put in 40.

With this ability you can double the capacity of your rune stone battery. The stone now is holding double the amount of Soul until it is empty again. During this time the stone cannot be recharged - it must first be fully used up.

Each overcharging causes visible cracks in the stone that leak runic energy. After the third overcharging, the stone may explode. The explosion isn't instant and only happens when receiving stress, such as being hit, thrown, or used by a rune cannon. Each time a stress causing event happens - including each time the stone is used by a rune cannon - a Hard Luck check is rolled. Failing means the stone explodes. If anyone is near the stone (one space) they receive the stored Soul amount of magic damage.

The stone cannot be used again after depleting its third overcharge, even if the stone does not explode. Some have found that making the stone explode serves as a novel magical weapon, when used correctly. 

Through careful measurement and efficient packing, you use half the black powder normally required to fire your gun (rounded up). For example, a War Musket requiring 3 uses of black powder needs only 2. This does not reduce the extra black powder used by Overcharge skills. Requires the Powder Measure tool. 

This ability is used with the Charging skills. This ability allows you to make a choice - to decrease the Soul Cost of the Charging skill by 1 (based on tier level) or to increase the damage bonus of the Charging skill by +2 (based on tier level). You cannot choose both. 

The decrease in cost or increase in damage is as follows:

• Basic Charging: -1 Soul or +2 damage
• Novice Charging: -2 Soul or +4 damage
• Greater Charging: -3 Soul or +6 damage
• Masterful Charging: -4 Soul or +8 damage

The decrease in cost or increase in damage only affects Basic, Novice, Greater, and Masterful Charging.. All other skills chained to it do not get the same effects. 

With this ability it becomes more possible to make a critical shot with your gun. Normally when firing a gun you only get a critical when you roll a natural 20 on your Focus check, allowing you to roll double the gun's attack value only (not the bullet's attack value). With this ability the chance to crit increases to rolling a 15 - as long as the Focus check succeeds. Also now when you roll a 20 you will add double the bullet's attack values rolls.

This ability allows you to wield 2 pistols, and use them both with the one focus check to  fire. Each pistol must be reloaded separately; one Defense action reloads one pistol. This allows you to start the combat able to fire both pistols in your first attack, but after that, you can only fire both again once both pistols have been reloaded. The results of the Focus check (natural 1 or natural 20, or Critical Shot results) apply to both pistols. Each pistol still uses its required ammo and powder. 

You can repair damaged guns and rune cannons in the field without a gunsmith. You may also replace barrels (major repair) and other simple parts (minor repair) as long as you have the parts to replace them with. Repairing requires a Normal Insight check and 1 hour of work for minor damage, or a Challenging Insight check and 4 hours for major damage. In combat, you may clear a misfire using your movement action. The gun remains loaded and ready to fire on your next turn. Requires a Gunsmith's Kit.

With a glance, you can identify a gun’s maker, quality, condition, and any enhancements fitted to it with an Easy Insight check. You can also tell what type of ammunition a gun is loaded with, and estimate its fair market value. Ancient or relic guns may require a harder check, at the GM’s discretion.

Your critical shots also inflict the Wounds status effect.

When you roll a natural 20 on the Focus check for a successful shot using Critical Shot, the target is inflicted with Bleeding Out instead of Wounds.

Add your Perceive trait to the range of any gun you fire. Shots fired beyond the gun’s normal range use this extended range before the Focus check difficulty increases.

You will do full damage against spirits. 

At the start of combat, if you have a loaded pistol, you gain +2 to initiative. If you act first in the round, your first shot may be fired before any other combatant acts.

By default, gunners must make a React check against each attack made on them during the defensive round, since their defense is spent reloading. This ability improves those checks by adding the gunner’s Acrobatics trait score to their React. This increase applies only to React checks made during the defensive round while reloading.

This ability places the gunner in a constant reactive stance during the defensive turn. This increases the gunner's React, Evade, Defense trait, and Spirit trait by +2. These increases only happen during the gunner's defensive turn, allowing the gunner to both be able to react to an attack and defend against an attack easier during the time they are normally spending reloading their fire arm. 

This ability allows you to increase the rune cannon's elemental effect on magical damage. It does so by allowing you to increase it from "Double Runic Power for attacks against those of the element you are strong against" to "triple runic power". It costs half your runic power in soul (rounded up) - which must be rolled for each time you declare you are using this ability, and cannot be reduced. The element is dependent upon the rune cannon's core. 

When an enemy you can see attacks an ally, and your gun is loaded, you may spend your Defense action to immediately fire at that enemy. This shot still requires a Focus check. Since your Defense action is spent, you cannot reload or defend normally this round, and all attacks against you require React checks.