The smell of gun powder. The feel of carbon being left on your hands. The sound of heavy weapons fire in your eardrums. This is your element. This is your passion. A boom, boom, boom and a thoom, thoom, now shake your chambers empty and fire again!
- Skill Proficiencies: Perception, Athletics
- Tool Proficiencies: Smithy Tools, Grenade Launchers, Mini Guns, and Rocket Launchers
- Equipment: Smithy Tools, and a pouch containing 15 gp
This is my gun. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Heavy Gunners come from any race, background, and religion. The skills required to fire heavy guns, which include most ship armaments, artillery, and cannons can be acquired through a couple of different means. Perhaps you picked up a job with one of the corporations or a security company that required you to try your hand at heavy guns. Maybe you are retired military. In other instances, you may have picked it up through mining and salvaging. Either way, you've managed to keep most of your fingers, so that isn't half bad!
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This is my gun. There are many like it, but this one is mine. |
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Military
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2
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Security Company
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3
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Salvager
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4
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Miner
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5
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Corporate Defense Fleet
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6
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Hillbilly Ingenuity
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Feature: Don't pull the pin until I tell you to!
By whatever means you come by this knowledge, you have learned to mix certain chemicals and powders, and using tools and containers can fashion all manner of explosives. This could range from Frag Grenades to something more akin to Napalm, an explosion that depends on fire rather than the rain of shrapnel. Materials to make these types of explosives is expensive, however, you have a knack for searching them out separately so as not to rouse suspicion, or through the black market.
In addition to your knowledge of explosives, you also have an affinity towards weaponry that employs these means of deployment. This includes most ship armaments, ground artillery, and large cannon based weapons. You have proficiency with Grenade Launchers, Mini Guns, and Rocket Launchers.
Suggested Characteristics
Heavy Gunners tend to have confidence and swagger, mainly cause they are the ones carrying the biggest gun in the room. While they are good at their craft, or at the very least, have the fire power to make them good at it, sometimes accidents do happen. Keep that in mind as you choose from the following tables.
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Personality Trait |
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I always have an explosive device for when things go wrong.
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2
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My use of volatile materials has made me a very calm person in general.
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3
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If it goes boom I want to make it go boom, regardless of what hour of day it is.
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4
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I am full of inspiring and cautionary tales from my experience with explosives. Sometimes in limericks.
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5
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I am crude and enjoy dirty humor.
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6
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I’ve lost too many friends, and I’m slow to make new ones.
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7
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I’m always polite and respectful.
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8
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I face problems head-on. A simple, direct solution is the best path to success.
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Ideal |
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Greater Good. Our lot is to lay down our lives in defense of others. (Good)
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Responsibility. I do what I must and obey just authority. (Lawful)
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3
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Independence. When people follow orders blindly, they embrace a kind of tyranny. (Chaotic)
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4
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Might. In life as in war, the greater the explosion, the less people you have to deal with later. (Evil)
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5
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Live and Let Live. Ideals aren’t worth killing over or going to war for. (Neutral)
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6
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Nation. My city, nation, or people are all that matter. (Any)
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Bond |
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1
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I’m trying to pay off an old debt I owe to one of the corporations.
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2
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Someone saved my life on the battlefield. To this day, I will never leave a friend behind.
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3
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My honor is my life.
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4
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Those who fight beside me are those worth dying for.
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5
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I’m guilty of a terrible demolitions accident that killed my best friend. I hope I can redeem myself for it.
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6
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He said he needed to blow up the bathroom. I took that literally.
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Flaw |
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I have little respect for anyone who is not a proven warrior.
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2
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I sometimes forget the important details to a plan and to compensate throw explosives.
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3
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I made a terrible mistake in battle that cost many lives—and I would do anything to keep that mistake secret.
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4
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My hatred of my enemies is blind and unreasoning.
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5
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Even though I'm quite imposing, I am a bit of a coward when intimidation fails.
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6
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I’d rather eat my explosives than admit when I’m wrong.
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