Gun Blade weapon & PRC

Gun Blade
Mediuum sized Exotic weapon
Cost 60g for blade, 20g for 60 bullets
Blade deals 1d8, Bullets deal 1d6
Takes two profecites to use right. The Bulltes can be fired if the useer pulls the trigger while striking, or can fire at ten feet away.

Gun Blade Specialist

Reqs.
Base Attack: +7
Skills: Tumble 6, Craft Arms and Ammo 7, Jump 7
Feats: Spring Attack, Weapon Focus and Specialization (Gun Blade), Improved Crit. Gun Blade, Signature weapon (Gun Blade), Dodge, Mobility
lvl base attack Fort Ref Will Special
1 +1 Rapid Reload Blade Style
2 +2 Blade Up S.T
3 +3 Wounding Bullets
4 +4 B.U. Twin Fang
5 +5 Balde Mastery
6 +6 B.U. Crusher
7 +7 Ghost touch Bullets
8 +8 Elemental Roulette
9 +9 Hammer Blow 10 +10 +7 +7 +3 B.U . Lion Heart

B.U.+Blade Upgarde
Class Skills: Craft (Int), Escape Artist (Dex), Gather Info (Cha), Handle Animal (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Listen (Wis), Move Silently (Dex), Profession (Wis), Tumble (Dex), Swim (Str), Ijtsu Focus (Cha) Skills: 4+Int modifier

Class Abilities:

Rapid Reload: You can now reload the gun blade’s six bullet holes as a standard action that provokes an attack of opportunity.

Blade Up Shear Trigger: This adds an additional point to critical rage after adding improved critical and keen. Example 19-20x2 normal, with keen and Impv crit and shear trigger 14-20x2.

Wounding Bullets: All bullets you fire from the magic gun blade are +1 wounding bullets. (see DMG for rules on wounding)

Twin Fang: Bullets fired from any gun blade you use have weapon focus. (It stacks if you all ready have it)

Master Gun Blade: For every two levels of Gun Blade Specialist you gain +1 defection bonus. (so at level 10 you have +5 defection bonus)

Cusher: Bludgeoning is now listed under types of damage your gun blade deals.

Ghost touch bullets: Your bullets fired form the gun blade gain ghost touch.

Elemental Roulette: On a successful touch attack with the gun blades bullets roll a d6, you add a flaming, frosting, screaming, shocking, corrosive to the bullet.
1=flaming, 2=screaming, 3=frosting, 4=shocking, 5=corrosive, 6= you pick.

Hammer Blow: You gain the hammer blow feat. If you all ready have it you gain an additional use.

Lion Heart: The gun blade you use now deals 4d6 for the blade, 2d6 for the bullet. Medium sized creatures have to wielded it in two hand unless they take monkey grip. (with monkey grip you suffer -8)

Blade Style: The Gunblade Specilist becomes an experate at the blade. Equale to half his lvl rounded down . So a 10th lvl Gunblade Specilist deals an extra +5 damage that is added on to normal damage.

Blade Mastery:The Gunblade Specilist gains a +1 to AC equale to half his or her Gunblade Specilist lvl rounded down ,when weilding a gunblade. This is a defection bonus.

I like the weapon idea but I'm not too sure about the class. I have to look that over when I have a bit more time.

As for the weapon, I have a few questions:

What is the Critical range?
What type of damage (Slashing, etc) does it do?
How much does it weigh?
Are both of the Proficiencies needed to use it Exotic?
What does it look like? A description would be nice.
Is it a matchlock, flintlock or some other type of weapon?
Is it magical or mundane? If it mundane what skill is used to create it and what’s the DC to make it?

-NetNomad

The Gunblade KD is talking about is from Final Fantasy 8, where the main character, Squall, uses it as his main weapon.

I would say that the blade would be 19-20/X2, and the bullets would be X3.

The blade would do slashing damage, and the bullets would do piercing damage. I would say that the Gunblade might weigh somewhere between 7-13 pounds.

I can't answer your question about the feats, but if I were to do it, I would have it cost one Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Gunblade) feat to use. You could not use the weapon at all if you did not have the feat because of the shape of the handle. See the picture for clarification.

The best description I can give for the type of gun it is would be close to a six-shot revolver.

The Gunblade is probably a mundane weapon. Depending on the technological level of the setting, it may or may not have the ability to fire bullets. It could, of course, be enchanted. I would increase the range increment of the bullets to 30 ft, though.

A picture of a Gunblade (on an FF8 background): http://www.squareamp.com/wallpaper/FF8 - Gunblade Mix (1024).jpg

I think he means one exotic for the blade and firearms for the gun part.

That’s odd. When I 1st tough of a Gunblade I pictured a shotgun/polearm type weapon not a pistol/sword.

Thanks for all your help guys!

-NetNomad

Thats what we are here for and I agree with what giant robo boy said.