Example Build – Variant Human Fighter (Gunslinger).For more information on the Fighter, see my Fighter Handbook. This guide is specifically for the Gunslinger Fighter, and omits sections of my typical class handbooks when those sections aren’t meaningfully different from other members of the subclass. This handbook assumes that you are not combining the two options.

It’s important to note that Mercer’s Gunslinger was published several years prior to the official Gunner feat’s publication in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, and as such the two are not designed to work alongside each other. The Gunslinger was originally adapted from the Pathfinder RPG when the Critical Roll podcast migrated from Pathfinder to 5th Edition DnD, and there are still a handful of things which call back to the Pathfinder rules. You choose a set of “Trick Shots” which let you expend a limited resource pool (grit points) to do some extra stuff on top of attacking and dealing damage. The Gunslinger is in many ways similar to the Battle Master fighter. While there are numerous homebrew incarnations of a gunslinger class or archetype, Matt Mercer’s has gained a great deal of traction in the DnD community, and I have received numerous requests to cover it. This handbook is for version 1.3 of Matt Mercer’s Gunslinger ( Affiliate Link).

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