Duck and Cover

There were lots of nice looking "Victorian steam punk" firearms in Arcanum - shame they got your tech gunslinger killed in 5 seconds flat when you tried to kill anything more dangerous than rats with them!

You can let some quirks in the system work for you as a techie though. There simply isn't *anything* more powerful than 'nades in the game. No AP (bug I think) and high damage. Only problem is the components as well as the finshed products weigh quite a lot and take up lots of inventory space.