Heroic Classes - Gunslinger

HEROIC CLASSES – FIGHTER: THE GUNSLINGER

A class, not a perk overhaul. Heroic Classes brings D&D / Baldur's Gate 3-style classes to Skyrim as separate, stackable mods. Each class is its own perk tree opened from the Custom Skills Menu, and every class in the series spends from the same pool of 12 class points (from Heroic Classes - Core) — one point every 6 character levels, from 1 to 67. Take all 12 Fighter features, or split your points across Paladin, Barbarian, Hunter and Fighter. Multiclassing is the point.

The Fighter is the Gunslinger: built for firearm mods (muskets, rifles, pistols — see soft requirements), inspired by the D&D Fighter and a certain gunslinger of Vox Machina fame.

FEATURES

• []Second Wind — pull yourself back from the brink.[/]

  []Action Surge — push beyond your limits: a burst of raw attack speed on demand.[/]

  []Grit & Trick Shots — the heart of the class. Kills earn Grit (up to 5). Spend it to load trick shots into your next bullet:

  []Deadeye Shot — a precise, punishing hit.[/]

  []Winging Shot — knock them off their feet.[/]

  []Forceful Shot — send them flying.[/]

  []Vital Shot — drain their stamina and slow them.[/]

  []Dazing Shot — leave them reeling.[/]

  []Violent Shot — pure damage, no mercy.[/]

  []Ricochet Shot — the bullet bounces to a second and third target, tracer streak and all.[/]

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[]Sharpshooter — firearm hits deal more damage and punch through armor.[/]

[]Extra Attack (Lightning Reload) — you reload like lightning: permanently faster firearm attacks.[/]

[]Quickdraw — your first shot comes out faster than theirs.[/]

[]Cabal's Ruin — the cloak's blessing: Resist Magic and a chance to absorb hostile spells outright.[/]

[]Vicious Intent — your intent to kill sharpens every shot.[/]

[]Indomitable — once per day, a killing blow can't finish you: you refuse to fall, rise back up, and nothing can touch you until you're on your feet.[/]

[]Hemorrhaging Critical — your critical hits leave wounds that keep bleeding.[/]

Open the tree with the Custom Skills Menu power. Levels listed on each perk are character-level requirements; points come from the shared Heroic Classes pool.

REQUIREMENTS

• []SKSE64[/]

  []Address Library for SKSE Plugins[/]

  []Custom Skills Framework (3. 2+)[/]

  []Custom Skills Menu[/]

  []Heroic Classes - Core — the shared pool of 12 class points, required by every class in the series[/]

  []powerofthree's Keyword Item Distributor (KID)[/]

Soft requirements — none strictly needed: every crossbow already counts as a gun. For actual firearms, these are supported out of the box:

• []Ordo Legionis Muskets[/]

  []DAR Rifles Standalone[/]

  []GLENMORIL rifles / pistols[/]

Any other firearm mod works by adding one line to the included KID ini (any weapon carrying the HC_Shooter keyword counts as a gun for every perk):

Keyword = 0x9D7~Heroic Classes - Fighter.esp|Weapon|YourGunMod.espCrossbows count as guns out of the box — vanilla and modded crossbows all work with every Gunslinger perk and trick shot, so the class is fully playable with no gun mod at all. Prefer your plain crossbows to stay vanilla? Put a semicolon in front of the WeapTypeCrossbow line in HeroicClassesFighter_KID.ini.

THE HEROIC CLASSES SERIES

• []Heroic Classes - Core (required)[/]

  []Heroic Classes - Paladin (Released, not yet updated to work with Core.)[/]

  []Heroic Classes - Barbarian (TBA)[/]

  []Heroic Classes - Fighter (this mod)[/]

  []Heroic Classes - Hunter (released)[/]

All classes share the 12-point pool: 12 points total across everything you install, one earned every 6 levels. Pick a class, or build your own multiclass.

CONSOLE HELPERS

set HC_Debug to 1        ; on-screen diagnostics

set HC_Grit to 3        ; set your Grit for testing

set HC_ClassPoints to 12 ; refund / adjust the shared pool

COMPATIBILITY

[]ESL-flagged — no load order slot used.[/]

[]No vanilla records are touched; everything is added, nothing overwritten.[/]

[]The KID ini tags supported firearms so gun perks and bow perks never mix — inert if you have no gun mods.[/]

[*]Works alongside any perk overhaul (O