Plasma Spaz

[insertnamehere]

Characteristics: Intelligence, Wisdom, Constitution
Skills: Academic Lore, Common Lore, Crafts, Medicae, Tech-Use, Ballistics, Scrutiny
Gun Kata: Divine Flame, Thermal Runaway
Bonus for Completion: Reduce damage you take as a result of the Overheats property by 2

Plasma Fan
Level 1
Prerequisites: Ballistics 2, Crafts 2,
Feats:
Armor Proficiency (Light)
Power Shot
Redundant Capacitors
Sound Constitution
Weapon Proficiency (Ranged 2)
*Weapon Proficiency (Any)
*Sound Constitution

Plasma Enjoyer
Level 2
Prerequisites: Ballistics 3, Crafts 2, Redundant Capacitors
Feats:
Accident Prone
Armor Proficiency (Medium)
Jaded
Sound Constitution
Weapon Specialization (Plasma weapon)
*Ad hoc Welding
*Foresight
*Sound Constitution

Plasma Enthusiast
Level 3
Prerequisites: Ballistics 3, Crafts 3, Accident Prone
Feats:
Hardy
Maximal
Speed Loader
Crack Shot OR Spray and Pray
Sound Constitution
*Sound Constitution
*Toolkit

Plasma Advocate
Level 4
Prerequisites: Ballistics 4, Crafts 3, Maximal
Feats:
Fearless
Hip Shooting OR Storm of Iron
Hot Potato!
Sound Constitution
Improved Weapon Specialization (Plasma weapon)
*Meltdown
*Sound Constitution

Plasma Spaz
Level 5
Prerequisites: Ballistics 5, Crafts 4, Hot Potato!
Feats:
Calculated Risk
Death Before Defeat OR Devastating Critical
Sound Constitution
True Grit
*Improved Weapon Focus (Plasma weapon)
*Sound Constitution
*Weapon Focus (Plasma weapon)

New Feats

Accident Prone
When you suffer wounds from something deemed accidental or unintentional (tripping from great heights, crashing a vehicle, or the Overheats property) you suffer 1 less Wound.

Ad Hoc Welding
Energy weapons you are using gain the Gear(Welding Tool) property. A Welding Tool acts as a Multi-Tool when cutting and welding would be necessary.

Calculated Risk
The risk may be calculated but math has never been your strong suit. When making a ranged weapon attack with a plasma weapon, you may choose to add +3k0 to the damage roll of a single attack. However, the weapon gains the Overheats property if it didn't already have it and the weapon overheats regardless of the damage roll. Overheats from this feat cannot be prevented in anyway. Additionally, if you choose to maintain your grip on the overheating weapon, roll a Tech-Use test with a TN equal to the Overheats damage roll. Dropping the weapon or failure on the Tech-Use test results in the weapon Jamming.

Hot Potato!
When a weapon you are using overheats, instead of dropping it to avoid damage you can instead throw it at someone as a Reaction using a Ballistics test against the targets SD within Strength x 2m for Pistol/Basic weapons and Strength x 1m for Heavy weapons. On a hit, the target takes the overheat damage. Regardless of a hit or miss, the weapon lands on the ground adjacent to the target. This is assuming that there is anything for the weapon to safely land on because if not you might need to acquire a new weapon.

Maximal
When making an attack with a plasma weapon, you may choose to increase the weapon's damage by 1k0, the weapon's penetration by 2, and add the ammo hungry (2) & Blast (1) properties

Meltdown
When you kill an enemy from a ranged weapon attack that activated the Overheats property, the target explodes. The explosion is centered on the target and has the profile of a Plasma Grenade with the Blast(1) property. This has the potential to cause a chain reaction if a target dies from the resulting explosion.

Redundant Capacitors
Once per Scene, you can prevent the Overheats property from activating.

Other Homebrew Feats

Power Shot (Loose Cannon)
If you hit, it hurts. IF you hit. When making a ranged weapon attack, you may choose to take -Xk0 to attack and gain +Xk0 to damage, where X is any number up to your Level. If you make Multiple attacks during a round you must decide to use this ability before making any attacks, and it applies to all your attacks that round.

Speed Loader (Akimbo)
You reload weapons in half the time, rounded up, to a minimum of one half action. Use these examples as a guideline: 1Full becomes 1Half, 2Full becomes 1Full, 3Full becomes 1Full+1Half, 3Full+1Half becomes 2Full.

Spray and Pray (Loose Cannon)
Sometimes Quantity has a Quality all its own, and sometimes you get lucky. When making a ranged weapon attack in Point Blank range, you may forgo the normal accuracy bonus. The attack instead gains the Scatter property.

Toolkit (Customizer)
You may make appropriate Larceny tests - for example, opening a locked door or disabling a weapon's shock safety system - and tech-based Crafts tests using Intelligence in the place of the usual characteristic.

[ScrapyardDragon]

whats the point of redundant capacitors when thermal runaway's first rank passive is just better in every way?

[insertnamehere]

There wouldnt be any. For some reason I thought the Thermal Runaway's first rank effect was much higher rank and so I added redundant capacitors to give a "the next best thing" option for lower levels.

Changed redundant capacitors to prevent Overheats once per scene instead and added a clause to Calculated Risk that Overheats from that feat cannot be prevented.

[insertnamehere]

clarified how far the weapon is from the enemy for Hot Potato! and some text mentioning potential weapon lose and is no longer a Standard Attack because RAW you cant perform two of the same Half Action in a row

[insertnamehere]

Made the Calculated Risk feat have more risk.

Instead of only Overheating (which can be made trivial thanks to class completion and passives provided by Divine Flame and Thermal Runaway), Calculated Risk now has the potential to cause Jamming which Divine Flame and Thermal Runaway provide no real protection against.

Also, clarified that the weapon overheating from Calculated Risk is from the Overheats property