Encounter: Goblin Musketeer

I just like the picture.

So, I'm thinking of all the things I don't have in decent quantity for my players to fight, and I think ranged encounters are a bit low. I also don't have many specifically gun themed opponents as I mostly am borrowing the TL3...ish bestiaries of Dungeon Fantasy. So, I says to meself, let's make a musketeer type opponent for my TL4 campaign. My goal is 60 CER, or a slightly challenging enemy for a starting Dungeon Fantasy character. let's see how that goes.

Mechanics

First off, we need to give it the stats befitting a gun guy with a musket, and that means having a decent skill level, and musket stats.

Attack Skill	7	Active Defense	0
Affliction	0	Damage Resistance	0
Damage	32	Health	0
Fatigue Points	0	Hit Points	0
Move	0	Will	0
Total Offensive Rating (OR)	39	Total Protective Rating (PR)	0

Cool, that alone takes up a huge amount of our budget, but still leaves us with some options. Let's add Gunslinger as an advantage, a bit of move to make him a persnickety (but dangerous) nuisance, and a touch of DR as well.

Attack Skill	7	Active Defense	0
Affliction	0	Damage Resistance	3
Damage	32	Health	0
Fatigue Points	0	Hit Points	0
Move	2	Will	0
Total Offensive Rating (OR)	41	Total Protective Rating (PR)	3

Let's give him some active defense because that is the one that seems to ratchet up quickly on accident anyway, and a hit point to just round it out.

Attack Skill	7	Active Defense	4
Affliction	0	Damage Resistance	3
Damage	32	Health	0
Fatigue Points	0	Hit Points	2
Move	2	Will	0
Total Offensive Rating (OR)	41	Total Protective Rating (PR)	9

I'll give him a bit of will because at long range, magic is a viable strategy, so let's make him a little harder to knock out that way, and give him some HT and FP while we are at it, making him into a bit more of a survivalist or guerilla.

Attack Skill	7	Active Defense	4
Affliction	0	Damage Resistance	3
Damage	32	Health	3
Fatigue Points	3	Hit Points	3
Move	2	Will	3
Total Offensive Rating (OR)	44	Total Protective Rating (PR)	16

Ah, nice round 60 point character. Putting it together we get this:

ST: 13	HP: 13	Speed: 7
DX: 12	Will: 13	Move: 8
IQ: 10	Per: 12
HT: 13	FP: 13	SM: +0
Dodge: 10	Parry: 10F	DR: 3, everywhere but the head/face

Musket (15): Range 120/1,200, 4d+2 pi++, 60 second reload
Edged Rapier (14): Range 1-2, 1d+1 imp or 2d-1 cut
Traits: Ambidextrous, Cowardice (12), Gunslinger, Infravision, Lifting ST 3 or more to not be encumbered.
Skills: Camouflage -12, Fast-Talk - 12, Guns (Musket) - 15, Rapier - 14, Stealth - 15 Survival (Current Environment) - 12,
Class: Mundane
Notes: Loves fighting in the dark because it comes with a huge advantage for him, having Infravision [Note, this setup might give him bonus situational CER.] Roll against cowardice if it might be found before reloading after firing, if forced into melee combat, and if and when it becomes obviously overpowered. On a failure, his first instinct is to negotiate as painless a surrender as possible [via fast-talk], but decide somehow if it is being genuine or deceptive (maybe secretly roll quick contest of fast-talk versus relevant skill like detect lies, or try a reaction roll with a very good or better meaning he genuinely respects the party.) For bargaining purposes, he will likely offer up his sword before his gun. If the party insists on taking his gun, he will insist on travelling with the party for his own safety. Again, this may or may not be treacherous at your leisure or by some game mechanic. Stats for his rapier and musket are on p.61 and p.92 of Low-Tech, respectively. He wears boots, a buff coat, a leather jacket, and leather pants as per Basic Set - Characters, p.283. He also probably has survival basics as per maybe one of the loadouts in Dungeon Fantasy 13: Loadouts.

Other Thoughts and Closing

Easy ways to make this fight more difficult is to make him reload very quickly. Easy ways to tone it down are to reduce gun damage or make him even more cowardly. To flesh him out more, give him more traits from the goblin template in Dungeon Fantasy 3, or take away the most gobliny ones, and give him a different racial template to create a subtly unique marksmen. To make him totally Dungeon Fantasy compatible, pretend it's a cross-bow with some imbuement powers to make it hecka strong, huge piercing and impaling are similar enough. That might not even be necessary though if you have the Dungeon Fantasy 1 issue of Pyramid which includes gun using delver templates, and then this type of threat might be a-ok.