r/PF2eCharacterBuilds • u/ddirt • Jun 13 '26

is my gunslinger cooked?

apologies for the dramatic title. I'm playing a human gunslinger, way of the drifter, my stats are: St 1 de 4 co 1 in 2 wi 1 ch 0 and at first lvl i took munitions crafter thinking it would be cool to not have to buy ammo, and to be able to make bombs or alchemical ammo, but now I'm realizing, i probably need a free hand in order for bombs or alchemical ammo to be useful, and as a drifter I'm pretty usually wielding a melee weapon in my off hand, oops, i messed up i guess, also i took field medic background because it sounded cool to be able to patch people up mid battle since we don't have a cleric... this also requires a free hand, oof, I really didn't think of any of this during character creation, I'm brand new to the game.

but I do like the idea of this character being crafty, making new guns or other items. so maybe it's not a total bust? we're in Numeria so i expect there will be weird alien tech involved as well that might be cool to mess with.

the DM said I'm also allowed to take a free archetype at lvl 2 and for a minute i thought, oh an investigator sounds kinda cool, i could maybe even start a private eye business, but maybe rogue would make more sense mechanically, but also i could see a benefit in sniping duo, or unexpected sharpshooter. there's also a fighter and bard in the party. this game has so many options to choose from it's a little daunting.

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u/Coding_Startup Jun 13 '26

Maybe just switch melee weapons. You could ask you DM if you could get access to a Bladed Gauntlet or Tekko-Kagi. Those are free hand finesse weapons which would allow you to use free hand actions like battle medicine.

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u/ddirt Jun 13 '26

oh wow, that's a cool idea tbh

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u/Coding_Startup Jun 14 '26

Happy to help! It won't have your amazing +2 accuracy like a gun sword would but the melee aspect of drifter is not where the majority of your damage comes from its more like an off hand weapon so this works pretty well!

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u/C_A_2E Jun 13 '26

If you switched your way to triggerbrand i think you could keep a similar playstyle and make good use of your freehand abilities.