DAS DRAGOON

THE DRAGOON
ROLE: Defender. With heavy armor and shield in tow, you utilize an array of gadgets and strategic positioning to protect your comrades and fend off enemy attacks.
POWER SOURCE: Martial. Your techniques rely on clever thinking, discipline, and devices that do not rely on a natural proficiency in magic.

KEY ABILITIES: Strength; Intelligence, Dexterity, or Wisdom

Armor Proficiencies: Cloth, leather, hide, chainmail, scale; heavy shields, light shields.
Weapon Proficiencies: Simple melee, military melee, simple ranged, military ranged.
Bonus to Defense: +2 Fortitude.

Hit Points at 1st Level: 15 + Constitution Score.
Hit Points per Level Gained: 6
Healing Surges per Day: 9 + Constitution Modifier.

Trained Skills: From the class skills list below, choose 4 trained skills at 1st level.
Class Skills: Acrobatics (Dex), Athletics (Str), Dungeoneering (Wis), Endurance (Con), History (Int), Thievery (Dex).

Build Options: Cannonbearer Dragoon, Shieldbearer Dragoon, Lancebearer Dragoon (WIP).
Class features: Draconic Vigil & Countershot, Gunbreaker, Personal Modifications.
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Concept: Heavily-armored gunmen either using them illicitly or to REALLY push themselves and their equipment to the limit to help friends. Alternatively, that's just how soldiers roll where they come from, because their tech is just that juiced. Anyways, go out there and beat ass, because you are VERY COOL and smart and sexy and the fucking strong.

From times long before, the late Aetherian Empire had been feared for their use of technology bolstered by magic, especially in the use of weapons. Blessed and empowered by the will of their Queen Gunnhildr, the frontline knights and riders who used these arms came to be known as "dragoons".

In the days of now, the term itself has not seen much use. Still, curious gadgeteers and inheritors of tradition alike carry the flame of the empire's legacy onwards. With heavy armor and armaments akin to those warriors of the past, the title of dragoon lives on. Their gunbreakers, act as sword and bow both, deterring foes from approaching their allies and mounting a new offensive on their own.

Whether they seek to uphold the weight of such a name, or to forge a path forward, that decision remains theirs to make.
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  Draconic Vigil & Countershot
Nearby enemies cannot escape your watchful eyes, and you will intercept any enemy who dare harm your allies. You gain the Draconic Vigil power and the Countershot power.

|Draconic Vigil (Dragoon Feature)
|"You impose your presence upon the battlefield, hindering your foes' efforts to attack, and providing a bulwark for your allies to stand behind."
|At-Will - Aura, Martial
|Minor Action, Personal
|EFFECT: You activate an aura 5 that lasts until you end it as a minor action or until you fall unconscious. While in the aura, any enemy that is not already marked becomes marked by you (if there's ever a tie because there's overlapping instances of these, I'd better figure out what the clarification text is for that!).

|Countershot (Dragoon Feature)
|"You fire a shot to disrupt a foe's attack."
|At-Will - Martial, Weapon
|Immediate Interrupt, Ranged 10 or melee weapon
|TRIGGER: An enemy marked by you makes an attack that does not include you as a target OR an enemy attacks an ally in your draconic vigil.
| Effect: Make a basic attack against the triggering enemy. It does not provoke opportunity attacks, and you apply one of the following effects:
| * If the triggering ally is in your draconic vigil: Reduce the damage taken by that ally from this attack only by 2.
| * If the triggering enemy is in your draconic vigil: The triggering enemy gets a -2 penalty on their attack roll for that attack only.

  Gunbreaker
The dragoon possesses a special weapon- A gadget known as a gunbreaker which they are always proficient in. Due to the complexity of individual gunbreakers, only the dragoon can use a gunbreaker of their own making, and the feat "Weapon Proficiency" cannot be used to obtain proficiency in gunbreakers.

The gunbreaker is a superior two-handed melee and ranged weapon of the gun weapon group (maybe this a bad idea) that has a proficiency bonus of +3, a damage dice of 1d8, and the load free property, regardless of whatever weapon (if any) is attached to it. When making ranged attacks with this weapon, it has a range of 10/15.
A gunbreaker can have up to 1 appropriately-sized one-handed weapon of the spear, heavy blade, light blade, axe, hammer, or mace weapon group attached to it, and gains its weapon group(s), enhancement bonus, and any magical properties or powers.
Should a dragoon lose their gunbreaker, they may create a new one during an extended rest.

DEVNOTE: Basically, you have a special weapon, and any one-handed spear, heavy blade, light blade, axe, hammer, or mace is also your special weapon. This is so I can have a cool-looking weapon that is functional. I'm sure there's a better way to implement a gun into the game, however. Also, it lets me potentially design gun-exclusive enchantments, but I think this is already a terrible, horrible idea.
Change from before: The gunbreaker's damage dice reduced from 1d10 to 1d8.

  Personal Modifications
CHOOSE ONE of the following personal modifications.

   Heavy Loader
You have tuned your gunbreaker's ammunition into packing a more powerful punch with each hit.
You gain a +2 bonus to the damage rolls of ranged powers using your gunbreaker. The bonus increases +4 at 11th level, and +6 at 21st level.

   Mounted Shield
You attached a shield onto your gunbreaker and have grown accustomed to its weight, allowing you to better guard against incoming attacks.
While using your gunbreaker, you are also considered to wield a heavy shield and gain a +2 shield bonus to AC.

   Dragon Killer (WIP)
You have extended your gunbreaker's barrel, increasing your reach.
You can make an opportunity attack against any enemy within its reach that provokes an opportunity attack. (Threatening reach, in other words; this should not be in the final product)

DEVNOTE:
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	Powers (At-Will):
|POWERNAME (Dragoon At-Will 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK: Strength vs. AC
| HIT: 1[W] + Strength modifier.
|  Level 21: 2[W] + Strength modifier.
| EFFECT:
|SPECIAL: You can use POWERNAME in place of a melee basic attack.
(DEVNOTE: This power has a niche of such and such.)

|POWERNAME (Dragoon At-Will 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK: Strength vs. AC
| HIT: 1[W] + Strength modifier.
|  Level 21: 2[W] + Strength modifier.
| EFFECT:
|SPECIAL: You can use POWERNAME in place of a melee basic attack.
(DEVNOTE: This power has a niche of such and such.)

|POWERNAME (Dragoon At-Will 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK: Strength vs. AC
| HIT: 1[W] + Strength modifier.
|  Level 21: 2[W] + Strength modifier.
| EFFECT:
|SPECIAL: You can use POWERNAME in place of a melee basic attack.
(DEVNOTE: This power has a niche of such and such.)

|POWERNAME (Dragoon At-Will 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK: Strength vs. AC
| HIT: 1[W] + Strength modifier.
|  Level 21: 2[W] + Strength modifier.
| EFFECT:
|SPECIAL: You can use POWERNAME in place of a ranged basic attack.
(DEVNOTE: This power has a niche of such and such.)

|POWERNAME (Dragoon At-Will 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK: Strength vs. AC
| HIT: 1[W] + Strength modifier.
|  Level 21: 2[W] + Strength modifier.
| EFFECT:
|SPECIAL: You can use POWERNAME in place of a ranged basic attack.
(DEVNOTE: This power has a niche of such and such.)

|POWERNAME (Dragoon At-Will 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK: Strength vs. AC
| HIT: 1[W] + Strength modifier.
|  Level 21: 2[W] + Strength modifier.
| EFFECT:
|SPECIAL: You can use POWERNAME in place of a ranged basic attack.
(DEVNOTE: This power has a niche of such and such.)

|Rising Wind (Dragoon Encounter 1)
|"You strike an opponent off-balance, then stagger them with a point-blank blast."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, melee weapon (one creature)
|Primary ATTACK: Strength vs. AC
| HIT: 1[W] + Strength modifier damage.
| EFFECT: Make a secondary attack that is close blast 3. This attack must include the primary target, if possible. If you hit the primary target with the primary attack, you get a +2 bonus to the attack roll against the primary target for this attack.
|  Secondary target: Each creature in the blast.
|  Secondary attack: Strength vs. AC
|   Secondary hit: 1d6 damage, and the secondary target is slowed until the end of their next turn.
|SPECIAL: While charging, you can use POWERNAME in place of a melee basic attack.
Function: gapcloser, enemy lockdown tool

|POWERNAME (Dragoon Encounter 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK:
|HIT:
|EFFECT:

|POWERNAME (Dragoon Encounter 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK:
|HIT:
|EFFECT:

|POWERNAME (Dragoon Encounter 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK:
|HIT:
|EFFECT:

|POWERNAME (Dragoon Daily 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK:
|HIT:
|EFFECT:

|POWERNAME (Dragoon Daily 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK:
|HIT:
|EFFECT:

|POWERNAME (Dragoon Daily 1)
|"Flavor text."
|At-will - Martial, Weapon
|Standard Action, range of power (target)
|ATTACK:
|HIT:
|EFFECT: