Gun Kata - Double Desperado

[Lestat]

What's better than one? The math just adds up: count the number of failed criminals that get shot down bringing only a single gun to a heist. The lack of twin gun slinging akimbo warriors being hauled into jail, and the prevalence of them on the silver screen shows that the art is the no brainer technique of choice for aspiring gunslingers looking to make it big with their best friends clutched in each hand. Just be sure to bring a third, fourth, fifth, and sixteenth friend just in case the resistance doesn't know when to quit.

You're a star of the gunslinger world, so act like it. Performer is your key skill as it isn't as easy as it looked to juggle your autopistol after already getting a couple rounds in the gut. Ammo pays for itself, and they actually have to count every single round fired after you leave, can you believe it? Anyway, Multiple Attacks is your special action, although it doesn't feel so special to you. This technique is bound to make you fabulously rich and famous, so be sure you keep an eye out for your 'allies', they're going to get jealous.

You may take this gun kata in place of the Point Blank gun kata.

Level 1: Crook

Called It: When you take the Multiple Attacks or Full Auto Burst action with a ranged weapon you may choose to take a -2k1 penalty to all attacks made as a part of that action to choose which body parts each will hit.

Action (Multiple Attacks): Use Multiple Attacks actions with trick shots. Any advantages applied to this Trick Shot are applied to the first attack of the Multiple Attacks action. That attack may not be a Trick Shot.

Level 2: Culprit

(-2) Everybody Gets One: Once this Trick Shot hits a target you can never use it against them again.

(1) Trenchcoat Armory: Immediately before or after attacking you may swap a weapon you are wielding with one you have stowed, or one on the ground.

Level 3: Criminal

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

(3) Unload: If your weapon was full on ammo before attacking it gains +1k0 damage for every two raises on the attack roll so long as it does not have the Recharge property, and would normally have ammo remaining afterwards. It then loses all ammo.

Level 4: Fugitive

(2) Brass Echo: After this Trick Shot you may make a standard attack with a different ranged weapon you are wielding at the same target. That attack may not be a Trick Shot.

Merciless Reception: For the first round you've encountered a particular individual in person your ranged weapon damage rolls against them deal +1k1 damage.

Level 5: Gunstar

(6) Twin Kata: When you make this Trick Shot you may also make a standard attack with a different weapon you are wielding. It gains all the same advantages and restrictions as the original attack, sans this one, so long as it meets all prerequisites.

[Traskus]

You could make Everybody Gets One a -3 or -4 for how limiting it is.

[username]

It is a bit limiting but I think Everybody Gets One balances against the Difficult Strike and Last Resort universal disadvantages. Difficult Strike is -2 like Everybody Gets One, but Everybody Gets One doesn't take effect until the attack actually hits the target while Last Resort is still triggered if you miss the attack.

From a mechanical standpoint, Everybody Gets One isn't really all that bad since most enemies and NPCs are going to not survive past the fight and you can just use it on a different target the next round. The 4th level bonus effect, Merciless Reception can help with this as well since it lets that first strike with Everybody Gets One do more damage to finish them off with that alpha strike, and if the Trick Shot itself doesn't then the other attacks in the Multiple Attack action might since they still get the same +1k1 damage.
Overall it seems like a pretty reasonable Gun Kata. I feel a bit bad about Called it since it makes the Called Shot action even more superfluous and useless but that's more Called Shot's fault.

[Nightwalker]

Some of the other Gun Kata feature the option to make a trick shot out of an action that does not feature an attack, such as the "Ready" action of Tin Star or the "Shift" action of Daemon Trigger. These options usually say that "any attack-related advantages or disadvantages apply to your next standard attack, which may not itself be a trick shot", or words to that effect.

If you were to make a trick shot out of a non-attack action and apply the "Trenchcoat Armoury" advantage to it, but no other attack-related advantages or disadvantages, could you just use the weapon swap as part of the trick shot action? Or would you have to wait until your next standard attack to use the swap, even though no other attack-related effects apply in this instance? Would this be an SM-discretion call?

[Lestat]

Trenchcoat Armory is meant to offer a choice tied to the attack that benefits from the trick shot that is made at the time of attacking. If it was given to someone else with Aid Another the recipient would gain the benefit on their next ranged attack, so using the Ready or Shift actions with it would not activate it until an attack benefits from it. I've added the word "immediately" to clarify that.

Edit: Also fixed some punctuation, no mechanical changes.

[Nightwalker]

Okay that's fair, thank you for the clarification.