Gun Kata - Lucky Break

[GuardianTempest]

(Special thanks to Username and Sandova Mirell for helping out with the fluff and some of the mechanics)

Sometimes your best option to face overwhelming adversity is simply cheating when the opportunity presents itself. What's the point of fighting fairly if you will just die doing so? Clearly it's time for honor to take a back seat and pull out every dirty trick in the book. Sure, you might get called out and lose face but "cheater" is a better label than "dead on the spot".

Deceive is the key skill of Lucky Break as its practitioners put up an elaborate facade of incompetence and good fortune before completely blindsiding their enemies, claiming that it was all an act. It is said that this Gun Kata was inspired by the bizarre adventures of a Luminary whose luck seemed to grow in proportion to his surrounding danger.

Level 1: Apprentice

- Tequila Surprise: You may use Trick Shots in the Surprise Round, even if you cannot act normally otherwise.

- Action (Delay): Use Delayed actions with trick shots. If the action taken does not include an attack with a weapon, any attack-related advantages you apply to the trick shot are instead applied to your next ranged attack. That attack may not be a Trick Shot.

Level 2: Initiate

(-1) As Long As It Works: This attack may only be made with weapons you are not proficient with.

(1/3) Startling Platinum: If this attack hits, the target must make a Pinning Test with an extra check on the test for every two raises on the attack roll. For 3 points, this effect applies to all characters within 5m of the target.

Level 3: Journeyman

(-1) Skill (Deceive): As a part of this attack, make a Deceive test against the target's Static Defense. If it fails, the attack fails.

(2) Hermit's Perplexing: Targets that attempt to Dodge this attack and fail can only use a single Half Action on their next turn.

Level 4: Master

- Unfair Tactics: Your ranged attacks benefit from Ganging Up as if you are engaged in melee as long as your target is in Short Range or closer. (Required distance varies depending on the individual weapon/attack's range)

(-2) Obfuscating Showmanship: This attack must be a 2-die stunt or higher.

Level 5: Grandmaster

(4) Wait For It: If this attack misses, it comes back against the same target at the end of the next 1-5 turns (decided when the attack is performed) using the same attack roll with a +10 static bonus. This effect only applies once, the attack does not return again if it misses for the second time.

[GuardianTempest]

This Gun Kata is essentially my take on Kiogen's Foolish Errand. It has its balance issues and its key "skill" is the Common Sense feat (which means only certain classes get to use this...including his Courier). I think what really irked me the most about Foolish Errand is that it's a paradoxical martial discipline...about NOT having martial discipline (you're supposed to FAIL the Common Sense roll to make the attack).

So for this Gun Kata I overhauled the fluff to make it seem more like a codified set of tactics, and retained some elements of the original (albeit readjusted). I also added some new effects that fit the new fluff like messing with people's reactions or doing Joseph Joestar's rebound ricochet shot like he did against Wamuu.

Also I found the previous "Mastery".

- Marksmanship Ruse: Your ranged attacks deal an additional +1k0 damage for every consecutive round you miss. (i.e. The attack misses in Round 1, in Round 2 it deals an additional +1k0 damage but the attack misses again, in Round 3 it deals an additional +2k0 damage and hits, in Round 4 the next attack deals no additional damage.)

I plan on nerfing Unfair Tactics so that it only applies if the target is within Point Blank Range, this is mainly to simplify bookkeeping in case you have multiple ranged weapons/attacks.

[GuardianTempest]

In light of Lunatic Princess I've decided to change Hermit's Perplexing. Do note that nothing happens if the target doesn't try to dodge.

Here's the previous version for comparison

(2) Hermit's Perplexing: Targets hit by this attack lose their Reaction. If they don't have one remaining, they can only perform one Half Action on their next turn instead.