Entity: Munitions Master

Source Battlecry! pg. 64

Invention often springs from necessity, and nothing creates necessity like war. While many inventors innovate new tools or seek fortune or fame, the munitions master seeks an edge in battle, one that might mean the difference between victory and defeat for their side. They aim to bring the sheer destructive power of siege weapons to a more compact and personal scale so that they can be deployed anywhere they are needed.

The portable light mortar used by munitions masters first appeared in Dongun Hold, a collaboration between Dongun siege weapon operators and Alkenstar inventors.

Prerequisites: You must be an inventor.

Munitions Master Adjustments: Instead of choosing an innovation from the options listed in the inventor class, you have the light mortar innovation, as well as the following changes to the class features listed on the following pages. You gain these abilities at the same levels as normal for the class unless otherwise specified. You must select Munitions Master Dedication as your 2nd-level class feat. Your innovation is a mounted siege weapon called a light mortar that weighs 2 Bulk. Whether it propels its payload via an elaborate mechanism or explosive reagents, it's capable of dealing immense damage. Your light mortar requires an Interact action to deploy it before you can Aim, Load, or Launch it, and it includes its own wheeled platform that it is mounted on as part of the deployment. It can be packed back up for easy transport as a 2-action activity with the manipulate trait and either worn as a backpack or carried in one hand while packed. Because of the light mortar's smaller size, the Move Siege Engine activity takes only 1 action when it is deployed.

Your light mortar begins as a 1st-level siege weapon with the statistics shown below. It deals an additional die of damage at 5th level and every 4 levels thereafter. When you Launch your light mortar, the Reflex save is equal to your class DC. Its AC is equal to your inventor class DC and it has Hardness 5. It has trained proficiency in Reflex and Fortitude saves, using your Intelligence modifier to calculate these bonuses. It has 10 Hit Points, plus a number of Hit Points equal to 2 plus your Intelligence modifier for each level you have. Its Broken Threshold is equal to half its total Hit Points (rounded down).

At 5th level, your light mortar's Hardness increases to 10. At 10th level it increases to 15 and its proficiency rank in Reflex and Fortitude saves increases to expert. At 15th level, its Hardness increases to 20, and its proficiency rank in Reflex and Fortitude saves increases to master.

Your innovation fires small cannonballs called carry shot. A group of 10 carry shot, which weighs 1 Bulk, can be purchased for 5 sp from most shops that sell ammunition.