Your friends might be psychic, or wizards, or cultists of strange gods, but you're the only one with a driver's license. Godspeed.
A: Hurt People, Background, +1 skill
B: Connected, +1 to-hit
C: Known to be Dangerous, +1 skill
D: Dangerous to Know, +1 to-hit
Hurt People
Unlike all other classes, you do not begin malproficient with firearms. Weapons you wield, even improvised ones, deal 1d8 damage if they would deal less. Your stat penalties no longer apply to your attack, damage, or maneuver rolls.
Background
There are eight below - choose one and gain its benefit.
Whatever organization, underworld, community, or creed you belong to is connected to people and places everywhere, and there are signs by which you may recognize and be recognized as a part of the same. When you roll a natural 7 on a reaction roll, reroll it and the encounter is in some way connected to your background.
With an hour's effort (in a large city - a day's effort in a small one, a week's in a neighborhood) you are guaranteed to be able to find a contact with something you need (items, information, invitations), willing to exchange it with you in return for, presumably, committing crimes for them.
You project a capable aura - humans and animals with fewer HD than you will avoid opposing you if at all possible.
Dangerous to Know
You can't get this deep into the underground without knowing how to handle yourself. You make two attacks per round.
Backgrounds
1. Imageboard Lurker - you have an extra stat, "Unanswered", that starts at 0. Every time you encounter a major question, write it down and add 1 to your Unanswered stat. When you seek an answer, roll 1d6 and spend that many hours staring at the board. If you rolled less than or equal to your Unanswered, lose points equal to your roll and receive an answer. If you didn't, they just call you slurs and talk about "vril".
2. Black Market Pharmacist - you can make hydrocodone, penicillin, and amphetamines out of off-the-shelf substances for $50 and an hour's work per dose.
3. OSIRIS Dropout - you can smell demons (pennies), hear fairies (someone playing the flute in your ear, poorly), and feel psychics (like someone staring at you very, very intensely) from a hundred feet.
4. Cat Burglar - walls others would need equipment and preparation to climb can be climbed by you without either.
5. Alien Abductee - there is an antenna implanted in your jawbone and your sinuses are full of microchips. Your blood is iridescent, and clots into stringy electrically-conductive paste.
6. Doomsday Prepper - the bunker's out in the woods. Two years of food and water. Seeds for local plants. Solar panels. Four rifles. 120 rounds of .223. Questionably accurate explosives handbooks. Enormous Gadsden flag.
7. Number Station Listener - if anything big is coming (nuclear war, natural disaster, martial law) you'll hear about it a week ahead of time.
8. Monster Hunter - you gain +1 to-hit and damage against non-human targets for each useful fact (den location, name of species, etc) you know about them, up to a maximum of your level.
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