[3.5] Porting fiction characters to D&D

[sonofzeal]

I've been rewatching the first season of Sailor Moon, and I had the sudden random urge to make the four Generals into D&D characters, as I think they'd honestly be really fun to play. Unfortunately, I'm only really confident on one:

Jadeite - Human Wizard, Focussed Specialist Illusionist (banned Necromancy, Evocation, and Abjuration)

I think Nephrite is some sort of Charisma-based divination specialist, but I'm unsure how to make that work. And I haven't actually seen the others yet. Any suggestions on those?


Feel free to drop other random fictional character builds you've come up with, link to archives of similar threads (I know they're out there but I can't find them), or request characters that others can help with.

[herrhauptmann]

The Ronin warriors would probably be pretty good.
Tridents/spear, dual wielding katanas, archer, flail, and forget what the last carried.
Then there's the villains. Kitiara, Anubis, Sekmet etc.

[shadowfox]

Two words: good luck.

All-in-all, when it boils down to it, you'll probably never fully capture the essence of the villains within a reasonable number of levels. I had a friend who challenged me to make a level 2 character of myself. Well, I'll just say that coming up with reasonable modifiers and clauses for Asperger's Syndrome isn't mechanically-friendly.

Something you might want to look into, however, is the BESM (Big Eyes Small Mouth) system. Normally, if I remember correctly, it's a d6 system, but they did come out with compatible versions of both 3 and 3.5 (with some flaws, I admit). It's anime-oriented, and they built it with some more open variants. It's possible to find a hypertext version of the rulebook, since the open-source PDF went down with the original publisher's site...

Just a suggestion.

[Eldariel]

Oh god, if I could only actually remember what abilities they showed, especially in the different iterations of the story - ironically, live action is the one most strongly engraved to my mind as it's the one I saw most recently (only, oh, what 7 years ago?). Zoisite (going by the live action at least :P) could work out pretty well as a Bard, with how he plays the piano in search for the princess.

Kunzite, definitely some sort of Gish. He has that badass sword of his, after all. He's got the whole "brainwashing"-part, but he also has insane direct offense. Can't say what schools of magic I'd give him to be honest.

[sonofzeal]

Oh god, if I could only actually remember what abilities they showed, especially in the different iterations of the story - ironically, live action is the one most strongly engraved to my mind as it's the one I saw most recently (only, oh, what 7 years ago?). Zoisite (going by the live action at least :P) could work out pretty well as a Bard, with how he plays the piano in search for the princess.

Kunzite, definitely some sort of Gish. He has that badass sword of his, after all. He's got the whole "brainwashing"-part, but he also has insane direct offense. Can't say what schools of magic I'd give him to be honest.

In the animate show, Jadeite is very definitely an Int-based illusionist, who shows Levitation (trans), Summoning (conj), and limited mind control (ench). That makes him pretty easy to stat out.

Nephrite is very definitely Charisma-based, and uses a lot of divination. He also makes those symbols which control people's brains, give them powers, and turn them into monsters. I'm really stuck here though. Beguiler maybe?

Zoisite and Kunzite, I can't help at all with. I caught scattered episodes before, but this is the first time I've watched it straight through and I'm not up to them yet. Maybe.... Zoisite as a Sublime Chord, Kunzite as a Duskblade?

[TheCountAlucard]

I'd turn to Afroakuma - he had a rather interesting build for Captain Hook.

Personally, I was thinking of statting out some of the characters from the Aladdin TV series - particularly Mozenrath (easily represented by a Dread Necromancer, perhaps with an Undead graft on his arm to simulate the gauntlet?), Mechanicles (Artificer, perhaps? ), and Arbutus (Whatever he is, he probably has levels in Druid).