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Comments from the Finger: I finally caught up on Rift Rats! 

I love this season of Hero Club. It’s always great seeing such a well-produced campaign using a book that’s occupied such a massive part of my life, but George and Nick really get what makes Dark Matter great: it doesn’t take itself too seriously. This season is hysterical (though it takes an episode before it descends into full-on farce) and you should absolutely listen in.

Reagan Cross

A natural born troublemaker and crack-shot gunslinger, Reagan Cross is a woman who plays by her own rules. Alongside her partner in crime, Cheeseburgers, she spends her days robbing from the corrupt and double-crossing other thieves across the ‘verse. She’s not without a moral compass, however; while she’s quick to pull the trigger, she always knows who to aim at.

Building Reagan Cross
Reagan is a spectacularly acted character, but the build is as simple as can be: gunslinger, plus or minus some odds and ends. The original multiclassed Pugilist for some reason, but in this case, I’ll be basing the statblock on the Smuggler in Dark Matter. This template provides a concise way to implement gunslinger NPCs, with the Lucky feat thrown on for good measure.

Reagan Cross
Medium humanoid (human), neutral good 

Armor Class 16 (tactical nanofiber vest/studded leather)
Hit Points 39
Speed 30 ft. 

STR 11 (+0) DEX 18 (+4) CON 16 (+3)
INT 10 (+0) WIS 10 (+0) CHA 10 (+0) 

Skills Deception +3, Perception +3, Persuasion +3, Piloting +7
Senses passive Perception 10
Languages Common
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) 

Critical Shot. Reagan’s blaster attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.
Dodge Roll. As a bonus action, Reagan can move up to 15 feet. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks, ignores difficult terrain, and can move her through hostile creature’s spaces, as long as she doesn’t end her movement there.
Lucky (3/Day). Once per turn, Reagan can reroll an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, or cause an attack roll against her to be rerolled. She chooses which roll is used.
Quick Draw. Reagan has advantage on initiative rolls. Additionally, she can draw or stow up to two weapons when she rolls initiative and whenever she takes an action on its turn. 

ACTIONS
Multiattack. Reagan makes two ranged weapon attacks.
Ion Cannon. Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 30/90 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d6) radiant damage, or 9 (2d8) radiant damage if the target is within 15 feet.
Magnus Opum. Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 60/180 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d10) radiant damage. The weapon then overheats, and can’t be used until the end of the smuggler’s next turn.
Repeater. Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 60/180 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d6) radiant damage. 

Kora Icehill

Kora Icehill is at once naïve, brilliant, and surprisingly bloodthirsty. As a glacian, a reclusive race dedicated to the principles of science, she inherited an analytical mind and a hunger for knowledge. However, unlike most of her race, she also felt the lure of adventure. It was natural, therefore, for her to join the GCC to explore beyond the confines of her planet.

Building Kora Icehill
Kora’s actual build in the podcast is an artificer, which is all well and good (especially for a science fiction game), but I’ll be spec-ing her as an alchemist in these stats. There’s a couple of reasons for this: I think it provides a better contrast with the more tech-savvy C.B., while maintaining her scientific know-how, and I think it makes her even more dangerous in combat, with a simpler set of statistics.

Kora Icehill
Medium humanoid (glacian), lawful neutral 

Armor Class 13
Hit Points 32
Speed 30 ft. 

STR 9 (−1) DEX 16 (+3) CON 14 (+2)
INT 18 (+4) WIS 12 (+1) CHA 9 (−1) 

Skills Arcana +7, History +7, Nature +7
Damage Resistances cold
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages Common, Glacian
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) 

Reagent Dice. Kora has 5 reagent dice, which are d10s. She can spend a reagent die and add it to the damage roll of any bomb she throws, or spend one or more dice dice to brew any of the following potions over the course of 10 minutes: potion of climbing (1 reagent die), potion of growth (1 reagent die), potion of healing (1 reagent die), potion of water breathing (1 reagent die). She regains these dice when she finishes a long rest. 

ACTIONS
Bomb. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 30/60 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d10 + 4) fire damage. Additionally, each creature within 5 feet of the target must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or take half the damage dealt.
Cryo Bomb. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 30/60 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) cold damage. Additionally, each creature within 5 feet of the target must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes half the damage dealt and its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end of its next turn.
Repeater. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 60/180 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d6) radiant damage.
Smoke Bomb. Smoke fills a 10-foot radius sphere, which causes the areas to become heavily obscured. The smoke lasts for 4 rounds, or until a moderate wind disperses it. 

BONUS ACTIONS
Flashbang. Each creature with 5 feet of Kora can’t take reaction until the start of its next turn.
Syringe. Kora can administer a potion to a willing creature within 5 feet of her.