Deadeye

"The rifle is the first weapon you learn how to use because it lets you keep your distance from the client. The closer you get to being a pro, the closer you can get to the client"

--The Professional

This... is my boomstick!   

— Army of Darkness

A Deadeye is a rare and exceptional breed. These unorthodox warriors enhance their fighting abilities by incorporating specialized firearm training, a considerable knowledge in alchemy and an intuitive understanding of tinker's tools, into their combat repertoire. This innate insight over the mechanics of ranged combat, coupled with the countless hours spent analyzing the disciplines behind firearm use, makes them especially deadly adversaries.
Deadeyes are drawn to the notion of steel and alchemy merging to create something far more remarkable and lethal than either. The way they choose to pursue their talents, however, can often be as varied as their backgrounds. 
Where some choose to wield their firearms as a whirling personification of mayhem, dancing through the battlefield, twin pistols blazing, and leaving utter chaos and destruction in their wake. Others strive for the specialized mastery of a marksman, a barely visible shape in a distant mountain peak, the thundering echo of their shot registering seconds after their target's lifeless body slumps to the dirt with a surprised expression. Some even seek to focus on the pure destructive power of the weapon, implementing greater quantities of alchemical components as well as tinkering and modifying their weapon until sheer destruction rains with every shot. No two Deadeye are ever the same.

Gunsmith

After choosing this archetype at 3rd level, it is inferred that you either received the adequate firearm training and crafting tutelage from an experienced Deadeye, or perhaps you invested countless hours researching and learning how to craft firearms and ammunition on your own, discovering the secrets behind gunpowder, or methods of distilling volatile alchemical reagents to operate firearms effectively.
All the time spent tinkering with these weapons has granted you proficiency with firearms, as well as tinker's tools and alchemist's supplies, when using said tools on anything related to firearms and ammunition. 

Crafting Firearms

• You are able to craft a firearm you are familiar with for a cost in raw materials equal to 50% of the weapon's price.
• Firearms forged in this manner can be done so at a rate of one day of work for every 100 gp of the firearm’s total price.

Crafting Ammunition

• You can craft ammunition, (bullets/pellets), for a cost in raw materials equal to 25% of the price of said ammunition.
• A set pack of 20 bullets/pellets may be purchased for roughly 20 gp, leading your crafting cost to be roughly 5 gp for 20 rounds of ammunition.
• Crafting ammunition must be done in an environment where smelting metal is possible, or with your own specialized tinker's tools.
• You may distill Alchemist fire or oil of impact as a substitute, if gunpowder is not available.
• Prices of bullets/pellets purchased from PCs, may vary depending on the environment, availability, and your DM.

Firearm Examples

Simple Firearms
Pistol	250 gp	1d10 (p)	2 lb.	Ammunition (range 30/90), loading.
Pepper Box	500 gp	1d10 (p)	3 lb.	Ammunition (range 30/90), reloading (4 shots).
Musket	500 gp	1d12 (p)	10 lb.	Ammunition (range 40/120), loading, two-handed
Pellets	Qty (20)	10 gp	3 lb.	Optional: Misfires on a roll of 1 or 2
Advanced Firearms
Revolver	1,000 gp	2d8 (p)	3 lb.	Ammunition (range 40/120), reload (6 shots)
Rifle	1,500 gp	2d10 (p)	8 lb.	Ammunition (range 80/240), reload (5 shots), two-handed
Bullets	Qty (20)	20 gp	4 lb.	Optional: Misfires on a roll of 1 or 2

Explosives

Gunpowder/Alchemist Fire/Oil of Impact

These agents are propellants, used mainly to launch the bullet/pellet out of the barrel of a pistol or rifle, however, they may also be used to make explosives.
Igniting these volatile agents can cause it to explode, dealing fire (alchemist fire) or force (gunpowder) damage to creatures within 10 feet of it (roughly 3d6 for a small container, or 7d6 for a large one). A successful DC 12 Dexterity saving throw halves the damage. 

Bomb

You can create a "bomb" by designing/creating a specialized container with a fuze and filling it with one of the aforementioned explosive agents. This can be done with the use of your tinkering tools (DC determined by complexity of bomb). 
As an action, you can ignite the bomb's fuze and throw it, with a range of 30/60 feet. Each creature within 5 feet of that point must succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or take 3d6 fire or force damage.
You can bind multiple bombs together to a central fuze so they explode at the same time. Each additional bomb increases the damage by 1d6 (to a maximum of 10d6) and the burst radius by 5 feet (to a maximum of 20 feet).
Bombs can be rigged with a longer fuse to explode after a set amount of time, usually 1 to 6 rounds. Roll initiative for the dynamite. After the set number of rounds goes by, the dynamite explodes on that initiative.

Explosives

ITEM	COST	WEIGHT
Bomb	150 gp	1 lb.
Gunpowder, keg	500 gp	20 lb.
Gunpowder, powder horn	55 gp	2 lb.

Modus Operandi

Once you've embarked on the path of the Deadeye, you select a preferred fighting style with which to wield your weapon of choice. As a Fighter subclass, you choose a fighting style at 1st level. Each of the Deadeye's Modus Operandi options has a specific fighting style that must be chosen as a prerequisite (i.e. Defense for the Bulwark or archery for the Marksman). You can choose an additional style when you reach 10th level (when selecting your 10th level Modus Operandi choice, the need for a prerequisite fighting style is waved).

• Bayonet Maven: You modify your firearm with sword, dagger or axe blades, wielding it in a dazzling combination of melee and ranged attacks.
• Bulwark: Donning heavy armor and shield, increasing defensive aspects, while dealing ranged weapon attacks.
• Marksman: A specialist in long range fire, taking shots few could even attempt.
• Sidearm Duelist: You excel at face to face combat, confidently wielding your sidearm to deadly effect.
• Two Gun Ace: You've mastered wielding two sidearms simultaneously with lethal grace.

Bayonet Maven

Prerequisite: may choose either the Protection fighting style, Great Weapon Fighting if using a two-handed firearm, or Two-Weapon Fighting of using two bladed sidearms.
Even amongst the unconventional Deadeyes, the Bayonet Maven stands apart. You've mastered the art of fighting with bladed weapons attached to the barrel of your firearm. Incorporating the blades of swords, daggers or axes to your firearm allows you to fight with a frenzy of melee and range attacks, keeping your adversaries off balance. You gain the following benefits:

• Your unpredictable bullet & blade fighting technique keeps foes off their guard, granting you a +1 bonus to melee attack rolls. 
• If using a long two-handed firearms (ex: a bladed arquebus or rifle), you gain the reach property for melee attacks up to 10 ft.
• After using an attack action to fire your weapon, you may use your bonus action to make an additional melee attack with the attached blade, or vice versa (ability and proficiency modifiers can be added to said bonus attacks).
• Additional attacks have a range of 5 ft. for sidearms and 10 ft. for two-handed firearms.
• Bonus attacks have a damage of 1d6, for a two-handed firearm (with a sword or axe blade), or 1d4 for a sidearms (with a dagger blade).
• This style of fighting allows you to ignore disadvantage when firing a ranged weapon to attack a target that is within 5 ft.

Bulwark

Prerequisite: must choose the Defense or Protection fighting style.
Striding into the battlefield like an engine of war, these armored warriors instill fear into anyone unfortunate enough to oppose them. Donning heavy armor and large shields, Bulwarks are an intimidating sight to behold. Even though these warriors specialize in defensive warfare, transforming themselves into something akin to walking barricades, they also possess the capability of dealing impressive damage from behind their walls of wood and steel.

• You have trained to be able to use heavy, two-handed range weapons in conjunction with large shields, however, you must take an action to brace the weapon on top of your shield, or through the slit built into a modified tower shield.
• The weapon stays braced in this manner as long as you move no more than 10 ft. during your turn.
• You may gain the benefit of half cover as long as you don't move on that round.
• Taking the hide action, to duck behind your shield for cover and foregoing any offensive actions, grants you three-quarters cover for that round.
• When making a Saving Throw to reduce damage from an effect, such as a lightning bolt spell or dragon's breath, you can add your shield's AC bonus to the roll. 

Marksman

Prerequisite: must choose the Archery fighting style.
Your specialty is the art of the long shot. Your training focuses on making precise shots from unfathomable distances. You learn to make the shots others think impossible.

• When making a ranged weapon attack on a target that is more than 30 ft. away, you gain a +2 bonus to damage.
• You ignore disadvantage when making a ranged weapon attack from the prone position.
• You ignore disadvantage when making a ranged weapon attack from your weapon's long range.
• You can use a bonus action to stand up from the prone position and still have full movement.
• If you spend one attack aiming your next shot, the ranged attack is fired with advantage. This may be done in the same round if you have multiple attacks per action.

Sidearm Duelist

Prerequisite: must choose the Dueling fighting style (the +2 damage bonus to melee attacks applies to your sidearms as well)
Duelists revel in the thrill of the showdown. You like confronting your opponents face to face, wielding your trusted firearm with frightening speed, and proving yourself the uncontested victor.

• When wielding a sidearm, (ex: pistol, pepperbox or revolver), in one hand and no other weapons, you get a +2 bonus to your attack rolls.
• You may unholster and re-holster your firearm as part of your attack action.
• Constant dueling keeps you in a state of alertness, granting you advantage on Dexterity saving throws to spell or weapon attacks that you can see.
• Your dexterous proficiency with sidearms allow you to use a bonus action to swiftly reload your weapon with your free hand, effectively negating the loading property of these weapons.

Two Gun Ace

Prerequisite: must choose Two-Weapon Fighting as a fighting style.
Two Gun Aces are experts at wielding two sidearms, (ex: pistol, revolver), simultaneously. This style focuses on speed and agility as you dance in and out of combat weaving your weapons in deadly unison, and leaving mayhem in your wake.

• When you use the attack action to fire a sidearm you are holding in one hand, and the weapon has the light property, you may use a bonus action to make an additional attack with a sidearm that you are holding in your other hand.
• Firearms with the light property include pistols or revolvers, (availability depends on the setting and the DM).
• The nature of this combat technique allows you to ignore disadvantage when making a ranged weapon attack to a target within 5 ft.
• Furthermore, the nimble nature of this style allows you to use a bonus action to reload both weapons at once.

Keen Shots

By the time you reach 7th level, your speed and accuracy with firearms reaches uncanny levels. You can choose to direct your attacks at specific areas on your opponent's body. If the attack is successful the target has to make a Constitution saving throw (DC = 5 + Damage Dealt), or be subject to additional effect as determined by the area which you've targeted. 
If the saving throw succeeds the target suffers no additional effects.
*You may use this ability a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier bonus per short or long rest.

• Head shot: a head shot disorients the target, imposing disadvantage on the target's attacks and advantage on any attacks made agains it until the end of your next turn.
• Torso shot: a torso shot stuns the target until the end of your next turn, furthermore, the target must make a Strength saving throw or be pushed back 5 feet.
• Arm shot: an arm shot causes the target drop 1 item that it is carrying. If the target is carrying multiple items, the Deadeye chooses which item is dropped.
• Leg shot: a leg shot shot sweeps the targets legs from under them, nocking them prone.

Dodging Bullets

By the time you reach 10th level, you've honed your reflexes to match the speed of your bullets. Your ability to evade away from trouble keeps you one step ahead of your foes.

• When you make a Dexterity saving throw to take half damage from an effect, such as a fireball or a blue dragon's lightning breath, you take no damage on a successful save and only half damage on a failed save.
• In the case of the Bulwark, you learn to  optimize the benefits of your shield, using it to grant you greater protection from attacks. You take no damage from the previously mentioned effects on a successful save and only half damage on a failed save.

Veracious Shot

At 15th level, you've learned to spot specific vulnerabilities in your targets. When making a ranged weapon attack against a target, you may spend your bonus action looking for a weakness to exploit. Weather the flaw is in your target's stance or a gap in its armor, you seize the moment to take full advantage this flaw to deal an particularly devastating shot.

• you spend your bonus action finding an exploitable flaw in your target, before making your attack roll.
• for the purposes of damage, a succesfull shot is considered to be a critical hit, doubling the damage dice dealt.
• if the attack is an actual critical hit, (rolling a natural 20), the multiplier is four times the normal damage dice.

Duplicitous Shot

By the time you reach 18th level your skill with firearms is unparalleled. You have now mastered the art of shooting multiple targets with one shot. You are able to deduce where to shoot your target, so that it will either ricochet off or penetrate through, and continue on to hit the next target, with remarkable accuracy.

• When making a ranged weapon attack, you can use your bonus action to calculate the optimal angle of your next shot.
• On a succesfull hit, the shot ricochets or continues through the target, hitting an additional foe of your choice within 10 ft. of the original target.
• Re-roll the damage for the second target you hit with your shot.
• If the shot is a critical hit, (natural 20), you are able to hit a third target of your choice within 10ft of the second target.
  • If there are no more targets within range, you can have the shot ricochet back towards the original target, striking it once again. Re-roll damage for this third strike as well.