#shackleborn

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Started playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, wanted to doodle my protag Choice. Not totally satisfied with this look but it's just a warmup! I might fiddle with his design more later.

 In your average fantasy setting, gunpowder and the art of gunslinging are probably the upper tier of technological advancement in the world.

However, sometimes you want to play with some more fancy toys, be they relics from a forgotten age, bleeding-edge volatile experiments, or literally fell out of the sky on an ancient spaceship, as is the case for the country of Numeria in the Pathfinder core setting, where techslingers are most likely to be found.

While fully capable of using gunpowder firearms when needed, a techslinger is in their element when they finally get ahold of an advanced weapon, like a laser gun, a zero rifle, or one of the mighty weapons in the heavy category. They may barely understand how the weapon works, but their intuitive methods help them make the most of these powerful tools.

This archetype was definitely built with the timeworn and glitching rules in mind, so if you’re interested in a gun-toting character with weapons that are normally reliable, perhaps such a build would be more suited to Starfinder, but if your fantasy game dives into strange inventions and tech, perhaps you might find a use for it.

 This archetype sports a number of unique deeds, the first of which allows them to get a surprisingly large number of shots out of a single battery, burning grit to retain a charge in the weapon, which is useful since timeworn items sometimes break down to the point they can no longer accept batteries. Whether this represents channeling grit directly into energy, fiddling with the settings to reduce consumption, or the sheer luck that grit partially represents is up to the player.

Additionally, they are exceptionally lucky when it comes to the unreliability of such weapons, glitches happening less frequently thanks to their grit.

Whether it is by a crude recharging action or something else, they can also temporarily add charges to a tech firearm, though these are fleeting, draining from the battery naturally if not used.

As long as they maintain their grit, they can even make use of their luck with the bigger weaponry they might find, unleashing devastating blasts with surprising finess.

Given their associated region, it only makes sense that these gunslingers can take the technologist feat as a bonus feat.

Additionally, like other gunslingers, they learn to specialize in specific weapons, though techslingers focus on specific models of the strange weapons they focus on.

Planning a campaign in a sword and raygun campaign? This archetype is perfect if you are fancying the gunslinger class, though obviously its use outside of that scenario is unlikely. The deeds associated with this archetype are less about providing a unique flavor and more about putting these gunslingers on part with their normal counterparts with their different weapon selection. In a way this makes them similar to the bolt ace, but in the opposite direction.

Build them as you would any gunslinger, but don’t forget how their deeds change the class. (honestly the charge recycling deed is only really good at later levels when you’re down to your last grit point and are running out of weapon charges, for example).

 In a land where understanding of the strange alien technology that litters the landscape can bring great power, techslingers demonstrate power rarely seen outside of the technomancers. Many may live for the rush of using these weapons.

  Raised by a caregiver robot in a peaceful nursery, Ilkas always wondered about the outside. When a power failure shut down the facility, he was forced to leave and fend for himself, discovering that he had been living on a section of an ancient advanced facility that had been running on backup power. He has seen much since then, including hints at the truth behind his shackleborn tiefling heritage, and has taken to collecting the strange firearms he finds for protection.

 When the Ship of the Gods crashed into Bollino Swamp, it quickly was renamed Godpoison swamp, for the ship leaked deadly energies into the water, killing many, twisting others, including the mutated mosslord that rules over it now. Still, for those brave enough, deadly weapons that call lighting and burning light on foes wait for the right hand to grasp them.

                                                   II. V. MMXVII 

               I   REALIZED   TODAY  that  there  is  no  greater  crime  than  to  hold  the  power  to  help  someone,  and  to  chose  to  do  nothing.  my  choosing  to  abandon  the  mortals  who  prayed  to  me  was  not  an  act  of  mercy,  nor  was  it  in  their  best  interest.  it  was  in  mine.  if  i  would  have  held  onto  the  same  philosophy  today,  a  man  would  now  be  burnt  to  a  crisp.  dead  by  his  own  will.

               however,  i  can’t  say  that  talking  theo  out  of  the  ledge  makes  me  his  savior.  would  you  call  a  man  who  retrieves  a  helpless  newborn  from  the  woods  a  savior  when  he’s  the  one  who  stranded  his  child  there  to  begin  with ?  as  painfully  cliche  as  it  may  sound,  i  think  theo  was  really  the  one  who  saved  me.  he  reminded  me  of  the  day  i  accepted  my  divinity,  the  day  i  relinquished  my  right  to  choose  myself,  my  right  to  stop  fighting  for  those  who  devoted  themselves  to  me.  

               from  this  day  forward,  i  will  not  stand  idly  by  and  i  will  not  let  prayers  go  unheard.  i will  do  everything  in  my  power  to  see  to  it  that  theo  and  all  the  others  who  still  suffer  from  the  shackles  that  bind  them  find  their  freedom  and  their  happiness  once  more.  i  owe  it  to  them,  but  i  also  owe  it  to  myself.  i  cannot  and  i  will  not  let  my  fears  of  inadequacy  keep  me  from  doing  what  the  fates  had  sent  me  here  to  do.  my  immortality  is  meaningless  without  my  purpose.  theo  helped  me  find  that  purpose  again.  now  i  can  only  hope  to  help  him  find  his.