A Humourous Challenge, Take 2

[kevin_video]

Anyone remember this thread?  It's what caused me to spawn the Megaman/Simon Belmont and the Equilibrium grammaton cleric.  I saw that Samus Aran's stuff was done and thought this should be added as well. The Fate/Stay Night thread would be a good addition as well.

Now what exactly is this? It's just fun. The rules are as follows:

- Prove that D&D can emulate a character that would normally belong only in D20Modern. Show up whoever says D&D is not suited for playing an anime, fantasy, sci-fi or action-flick character needs more splat books.
- Level 20 builds only. Epic builds make the DM cry.
- Must be 100% 3.5 legal, WotC first party sources strongly preferred.
- Have fun.

Also, if you've ever played one of these characters in a real game, let us know how it went.

Lastly, if there's a build that you see in the original humourous challenge that you think you can do better, by all means do so.

Some challenges? Sailor Moon and the other Sailor Senshi, the 80's Transformers, The Hulk, Iron Man, Legend of Zelda's Link, the Power Rangers (the original link was removed when the threads got revamped), and anything else that you think is noteworthy.

Personally, I think the Sailor Senshi one will be by far the most impossible because they know a limited number of thematic spells.

Another reason I'm putting this up here is there's not really a single thread where this kind of thing has links to other threads saying "I built this". Most of the stuff I find on here are me just randomly typing things out, like Metroid, or Predator, or Saber (Fate/Stay Night).

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Magical girls are basically warlocks with reflavoring.

[Solo]

And more gratuitous panty shots.

[X-Codes]

Speaking of, here's Blair from Soul Eater: http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=9888.msg334990#msg334990

...oh wait, she wasn't wearing panties when said shots occurred...

EDIT: Oh, not 100% legal, actually.  It's a Warlock, but uses a Dragonfire Adept invocation.  I'm sure there's a way for a Warlock to get said Invocation, but I'm not really a specialist in these matters, so eh...

[kevin_video]

Magical girls are basically warlocks with reflavoring.

A lot of reflavoring. I mean, you've got characters that throw roses, summon up earth, fire, wind, water, light, darkness, ice, and the cosmos itself sometimes. Can warlocks even make things foggy, or put up a wall of ice or fire?

[Solo]

Have you read the invocations listed in the Complete Arcane?

[kevin_video]

Have you read the invocations listed in the Complete Arcane?

I must be missing the one that emulate iron wall, stone wall, ice wall, and fire wall.

[Solo]

There's Wall of Perilous Flame for fire. You can adapt it for other elements if you want.

Can't find a Wall of Stone or Wall of Iron equivalent, though Impenetrable Barrier (DM) is a Wall of Force.

There's also Chilling Tentacles, which I'm sure certain kinds of magic girls will find useful.

[kevin_video]

There's Wall of Perilous Flame for fire. You can adapt it for other elements if you want.

There's also Chilling Tentacles, which I'm sure certain kinds of magic girls will find useful.

Or tentacle monsters themselves.

But I've seen Goku done up, so it should be theoretically possible, however, I'll see it when someone figures out how to do it. I mean, you've got characters that throw tornadoes, have psychic visions, enchant arrows to hurt evil outsiders, etc. There's a lot of ground to cover that reflavoring can only do so much of.

[CyMage]

Overall, the warlock idea is a good start.  If you want to stat out specific ones, you might do something different.

[KellKheraptis]

There's Wall of Perilous Flame for fire. You can adapt it for other elements if you want.

There's also Chilling Tentacles, which I'm sure certain kinds of magic girls will find useful.

Or tentacle monsters themselves.

But I've seen Goku done up, so it should be theoretically possible, however, I'll see it when someone figures out how to do it. I mean, you've got characters that throw tornadoes, have psychic visions, enchant arrows to hurt evil outsiders, etc. There's a lot of ground to cover that reflavoring can only do so much of.

Retake on Goku :
-Magic Blooded Human
-Favorite Gish combo here, preferably getting a net of +10 saves base or better, and if possible with Swiftblade
-Notable spells : Alter Self, Aspect of the Deity, Bite of the Weretiger, Bite of the Werebear, Divine Power, Draconic Polymorph, Giant Size, Greater Aspect of the Deity, Greater Mighty Wallop, Mighty Wallop, Venomfire

Kaioken - Alter Self, a lower Bite of the Foo, Mighty Wallop
SSJ - Alter Self, Bite of the Weretiger, Divine Power, Greater Mighty Wallop, Venomfire
SSJ2 - Alter Self, Bite of the Weretiger, Divine Power, Draconic Polymorph, Greater Mighty Wallop, Venomfire
SSJ3 - Alter Self, Aspect of the Deity, Bite of the Weretiger, Divine Power, Draconic Polymorph, Giant Size, Greater Mighty Wallop, Venomfire
SSJ4 - Alter Self, Bite of the Weretiger, Bite of the Werebear, Divine Power, Draconic Polymorph, Giant Size, Greater Aspect of the Deity, Greater Mighty Wallop, Venomfire

And if you don't want to shift down to SSJ4 with Alter Self, stay as a Golden Oozaru.  Draconic Polymorph is used to snag Legendary Ape at higher levels, Dire Ape at lower.  Giant Size is obvious.  Take the feat Ability Enhancer, and you can achieve a Str of over 100 easily with this combo, and take the feat Hammerblow to deal 1.5 times Str for damage with an unarmed strike.

Will edit later if need be, after I'm more awake.

[kevin_video]

Anyone want to try and revise the One Piece characters? Maybe try to fit in Luffy's ability to stretch his limbs?

Roronoa Zoro
Zoro was a pirate hunter, who practised Two-Sword fighting as a kid, then went on to using 3 when he was trying to beat Kuina. I've included this when factoring the build.

Zoro uses 3 Katana, 2 in his hands, and 1 in his mouth. The easiest way to simulate this, is with Aberrant Arms from Dungeon Master's Guide II. While this gives an extra 2 arms, I'll only be using 1 extra for simplicity of the build. Although it may seem extremely crazy, that extra arm will be counted as being inside his mouth...

AA: Multiweapon Fighting
Human: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (bastard sword)

Aberrant Arms (LA +2) Human Fighter 8/Bloodhound 3/Ninja 6/? 1
Fighter 1:
-Endurance
-B: Two-Weapon Fighting
Fighter 2:
-B: Combat Expertise
Fighter 3:
-Run
Fighter 4:
-B: Dodge
Fighter 5:
Fighter 6:
-Track
-B: Mobility
Fighter 7:
Fighter 8:
-B: Spring Attack
Bloodhound 9: Mark (1), Swift Tracking
-Improved Multiweapon Fighting
Bloodhound 10: Nonlethal force, Ready and Waiting
Bloodhound 11: Bring 'em Back Alive, Tenacious Pursuit (+10 ft.)
Ninja 12: Ki Power, Sudden Strike +1d6, Trapfinding
-Greater Multiweapon Fighting
Ninja 13: Ghost step (invisible)
Ninja 14: Sudden Strike +2d6, Poison Use
Ninja 15: Sudden Strike +3d6
-Whirlwind Attack
Ninja 16: Acrobatics +2, Ki Dodge
Ninja 17: Sudden Strike +4d6, Speed Climb

BAB: +18/+3
Attacks: +14/+14/+14/+13/+13/+8/+8

And of course, it incoporates the majority of the feats he's been seen performing in the series. This includes running down the Merry Go's mast and attack, slicing people painfully and effectively without leaving a mark, and of course it gives him some versatiliy


Monkey D. Luffy
Here's a build for Luffy, though it's far from perfect. He can cast up to 4th level spells, which allows for things like Enlarge Person, Fly, Spider Climb, etc. to simulate a few of the tricks he uses, and Two-Weapon Fighting helps to simulate Gum-Gum Rapid Fire

Human -Combat Expertise
Ninja 1: Ki power, sudden strike +1d6, trapfinding
-Improved Unarmed Strike
Ninja 2: Ghost step (invisible)
Ninja 3: Sudden strike +2d6, poison use
-Quick Draw
Ninja 4: Great Leap
Sorcerer 5: Summon Familiar
Sorcerer 6:
-Improved Feint
Sorcerer 7:
Sorcerer 8:
Sorcerer 9:
-Enduring Life
Sorcerer 10:
Sorcerer 11:
Sorcerer 12:
-Weapon Finesse
Dread Pirate 13: Seamanship,Two-Weapon Fighting
Dread Pirate 14: Fearsome Reputation +2
Streetfighter 15: Always Ready +1, Streetwise
-Weapon Focus (unarmed strike)
Streetfighter 16: Stand tough 1/day
Streetfighter 17: Always Ready +2, Sneak Attack +1d6
Streetfighter 18: Stand tough 2/day
-Improved Two-Weapon Fighting
Streetfighter 19: Rally the Crew +1 (1/day) or Sneak Attack +1d6
Dread Pirate 20: Acrobatic Charge, Steady Stance


Sanji
And here's one for Sanji. I'm sure it could be better, but I'm not exactly buried under sourcebooks

Human - Two-Weapon Fighting
Fighter 1:
-Combat Expertise
B: Dodge
Fighter 2:
B: Mobility
Fighter 3:
-Improved Feint
Fighter 4:
B: Spring Attack
Fighter 5:
Fighter 6:
-Weapon Focus (unarmed strike)
B: Improved Two-Weapon Fighting
Fighter 7:
Fighter 8:
B: Improved Unarmed Strike
Tempest 9: Tempest Defense +1
-Weapon Specialization (unarmed strike)
Tempest 10: Ambidexterity (-3/-1)
Tempest 11: Tempest Defense +2, Two-Weapon Versatility
Tempest 12: Ambidexterity (-2/+0)
-Greater Weapon Focus (unarmed strike)
Tempest 13: Tempest Defense +3, Two-Weapon Spring Attack
Streetfighter 14: Always Ready +1, Streetwise
Exemplar 15: Skill Artistery, Skill Mastery
-Skill Focus (profession)
Exemplar 16: Lend Talent (one-half penalty)
Streetfighter 17: Stand Tough 1/day
Streetfighter 18: Always Ready +2, Sneak Attack +2d6
-Whirlwind Attack
Streetfighter 19: Stand Tough 2/day
Streetfighter 20: Always Ready +3, Uncanny Dodge

So, he's a superb Two-Weapon fighter using kicks (RP point only, there's no distinction between fists and feet in unarmed strike), and he's good at cooking to boot

[JaronK]

The Hulk: Human Factotum 10/War Hulk 10 with a ring of Enlarge Person.  Works pretty darn easily really.

JaronK

[The_Mad_Linguist]

The Hulk: Human Factotum 10/War Hulk 10 with a ring of Enlarge Person.  Works pretty darn easily really.

JaronK

Make it an intelligent, cursed CN ring of enlarge person, so it's outside your direct control.

[Ed-Zero]

Commoner 20

[Prime32]

Anyone want to try and revise the One Piece characters? Maybe try to fit in Luffy's ability to stretch his limbs?

Zolo uses the Draconic Tail and Prehensile Tail feats to wield a third weapon. He needs the dragonblood subtype, so make him a dragonborn something.

Luffy is a Tashalatora warmind build with the reach power, or a warshaper. Maybe some warblade/crusader levels to represent Haki.

[kevin_video]

Anyone want to try and revise the One Piece characters? Maybe try to fit in Luffy's ability to stretch his limbs?

Zolo uses the Draconic Tail and Prehensile Tail feats to wield a third weapon. He needs the dragonblood subtype, so make him a dragonborn something.

Luffy is a Tashalatora warmind build with the reach power, or a warshaper. Maybe some warblade/crusader levels to represent Haki.

Somehow looking at the HUMAN Zoro, I don't see him being a dragonborn. There are other ways of getting the dragonborn subtype. Maybe make him a silverbrow human. It'd explain his natural green hair.

Luffy doesn't get haki until recently, unless you count his outbursts. For his unarmed attacks, I was thinking maybe swordsage progression. He doesn't really have an intelligence so warblade wouldn't likely be the best idea.

[Prime32]

Somehow looking at the HUMAN Zoro, I don't see him being a dragonborn. There are other ways of getting the dragonborn subtype. Maybe make him a silverbrow human. It'd explain his natural green hair.

Fluff is mutable. I don't recall Zolo ever casting feather fall. Dragonborn (mind) would only make him tougher, more perceptive and immune to the frightful presence of dragons.

[Prime32]

Will add to this later. Need to find that armour which heals the wearer. Otherwise demon armor makes a good substitute

Guts

Hellbred (body) Barbarian 14/Frenzied berserker 5/Warblade 1
Feats: Cleave, Combat Reflexes, Destructive Rage, Great Cleave, Intimidating Rage, Power Attack
Equipment: +1 Ghost touch Outsider (evil) bane Greatsword, Gauntlet of mountain tombstone strike (arm cannon), +5 mithral full plate of quickness


EDIT: If using Tome material, samurai is a pretty good fit for the bulk of his levels. Even the stuff about "serving a lord" fits flavorfully.
Hellbred (body) Samurai 14/Barbarian 1/Frenzied berserker 5
Equipment: Greatsword (samurai favoured weapon) of Outsider (evil) bane, Gauntlet of mountain tombstone strike (arm cannon), +5 mithral full plate of quickness

[kevin_video]

Samurai? As in OA Samurai? Greatsword's good, but I always thought it be like Cloud's over-sized sword, and would think that the Jovar from the Planar Handbook would fit. Although, the greatsword is just a standard martial weapon that does the same damage.