Help me build Link from Zelda [3.5]

[Froogleyboy]

Okay, I wana play link in my next 3.5 campaign, so does anyone know of a build?

[Milskidasith]

A melee character with whirlwind attack, cross class skills into UMD, some way of reducing falling damage significantly, and a way of casting a single weak blasty spell from his sword.

I'm really not sure how to do the last two, because I don't have swordsage or hexblade or duskblade or all the other classes that seem to involve swords and magic.

[Drider]

If you look around, I believe there was a fairly detailed zelda d20 that had racial stats for deku shrubs, gorons, and zora, forest imp(skull kid race) along with hylalians(city-folk) and kokori(the forest children) and a bunch of monsters.

[Innis Cabal]

Factotum. Seriously. Factotum. What class should Link be? Oh, Factotum looks awesome. Probably should go with that.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Probably a dip in Warlock for the shooting of the magic. The other magical abilities given are invocations. He's also dipped a level in Master of Masks (or gone all 10 levels in it if you are representing Majora's Mask version) for Gladiator Mask so he can use all those exotic weapons without suffering hugely.

[Ponce]

Uh. Eternal Blade. Done.

[Catch]

There's a dozen ways to do it. Any blend of martial, skill monkey and UMD should work, plus a few possibly-custom items. Tt really depends on what books you're allowed.

What level range are you looking at?

[Jade_Tarem]

Link from Ocarina of Time

Gestalt Hyrulian (Bard9/Sorcerer1)/Fighter10 (Level 10)

Using Heroic Array for stats (why not?)

HP: (10 + 9d10 + 20)
HD: 9

STR: 14
DEX: 18
CON: 14
INT: 18
WIS: 10
CHA: 12

BAB: +10

Skills:
Handle Animal 13 Ranks
Perform (Ocarina) 13 Ranks
Ride 13 Ranks
Tumble 13 Ranks
Use Magic Device 13 Ranks
Appraise 13 Ranks
Climb 7 Ranks
Jump 6 Ranks
Use Rope 13 Ranks
Listen 13 Ranks
Spot 13 Ranks
Survival 7 Ranks
Search 6 Ranks

Feats:
Mounted Combat (Fighter Bonus - 1)
Mounted Archery (Fighter Bonus - 2)
Point Blank Shot (Fighter Bonus - 4)
Precise Shot (Fighter Bonus - 6)
Shot on the Run (Fighter Bonus - 8)
Dodge (Hyrulian Bonus)
Mobility
Spring Attack
Combat Expertise
Whirlwind Attack (Fighter Bonus - 10)
Celestial Familiar

Equipment:
+3 Holy Longsword "Master Sword"
+2 Longbow
+1 Returning Boomerang
Glamered Chain Shirt
Glamered Chain Shirt of Moderate Fire Resistance
Glamered Chain Shirt of the Deeps
Boots of Levitation
Lead Boots
Ocarina of Time
Longshot
Slingshot
Deku Nuts
Quarterstaff x 10
Flaming Arrows
Frost Arrows
Holy Arrows
Greater(?) Alchemist's Fire - Bombs
Custom Wonderous Item - Din's Fire
Custom Wonderous Item - Farore's Wind
CUstom Wonderous Item - Naru's Love

Celestial Familiar - Reduced Size Lantern Archon "Navi"

The special music abilities are accounted for by the Bardic Music and Bardic Spellcasting. This covers everything but the shooting from the sword, I think.

[woodenbandman]

Hm.

How about:

Half Elf Warblade 6/Bloodstorm Blade 4/Eternal Blade 10. At level eleven you get a blade guide (Navi), and you have the diamond mind maneuvers for damage/whirlwind, the Bloodstorm Blade to ensure that your boomerang will always unerringly make it back to you no matter what.

A few items you need:

That eberron boomerang.
A Rod of Ropes
A Holy Avenger
A Shield of Ray Deflection/Spell Turning
A Gnome Twistcloth
A Vicious, Maiming Greatsword
A bunch of ditherbombs.
Some form of magical musical instrument.


For feats you should look at:
Point Blank shot (Obviously as a pre-req)
Shield Ward
Stormguard Warrior
Combat Reflexes
Evasive Reflexes
Robilar's Gambit
Wild Cohort
Hit up Martial Study to pick up a few Desert Wind things.

Ignore Whirlwind attack, there's a maneuver or even two that replicate it, but better. You don't really do a lot of damage with your boomerang, but there's a feat that is somewhere which allows you to daze people you hit with it (called boomerang daze I think), which will allow you to Island in Time yourself to go up and slap 'em a lot.

How's That?

[Eldariel]

The special music abilities are accounted for by the Bardic Music and Bardic Spellcasting. This covers everything but the shooting from the sword, I think.

Which should be an ability of the sword anyways. Though I'd personally use some ToB to cover that part along with Whirlwind Attack and the like; maybe even Bloodstorm Blade for the Boomerang fun.

[Milskidasith]

You forgot to mention his character flaws; he's got the mute homebrew flaw going, and is probably insane due to Navi's "annoying as hell" syndrome.

[Mando Knight]

Your real problem? Which Link. Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass Link is totally different from Twilight Princess Link, and Adult OoT Link is different from his Majora's Mask self. Each one has similar abilities, but all have different secondary powers. TP Link is almost entirely martial with a few nifty magic items, WW Link is a sailor, OoT Link has magic music...

[Jade_Tarem]

You forgot to mention his character flaws; he's got the mute homebrew flaw going, and is probably insane due to Navi's "annoying as hell" syndrome.

Good catch. However, I'm not very familiar with the flaws/traits system because my group never uses it.

[Mushroom Ninja]

You forgot to mention his character flaws; he's got the mute homebrew flaw going, and is probably insane due to Navi's "annoying as hell" syndrome.

Navi? Annoying?

[mikej]

You forgot to mention his character flaws; he's got the mute homebrew flaw going, and is probably insane due to Navi's "annoying as hell" syndrome.

"hey, listen!"
"hey, listen!"
"hey, listen!"

I'd go Warblade/Eternal Blade, with Whirlwind Attack and some custom ( DM help ) sword.

edit: darn, ninja'd

[Faleldir]

A Gnome Twistcloth

Nitpick: Link wears chainmail.

[9mm]

if the energy blast form the sword isn't a property of the sword, then use a wand chamber and put, I don't know, an eternal wand of magic missle in there?

[erikun]

Navi? Annoying?

Watch out!

Honestly, I don't think D&D models Legend of Zelda very well - anything that doesn't fit into one of the predescribed classes is usually hard to work out. Beyond that...

For race, Elf or Half-Elf would make the most sense thematically. Probably Elf, although Link never looked like someone with low CON. Classwise, Duskblade always struck me as the most appropriate: someone who can fight and cast spells. I'm not sure how the skills match up, though, as (Ocarina of Time) Link definitely has high ranks in Tumble. Possibly some decent Balance/Jump checks, at that.

Weapon would be a Longsword/Bastard Sword, as he swings it with both one and two hands regularly. Not sure how you'd model Link's Cyclone attack, as the Whirlwind feat is... rather uninteresting.

[deuxhero]

I second the Rod of Ropes, doesn't get closer to a hookshot than that.

[Knaight]

Pick a game, pick a spot in the game, and pick a desired level. Then tell us how much you are OK with home brew. Otherwise, we can't really help much.

[elliott20]

also specify WHICH Link you want to emulate. There is no feasible way to get them all unless you want to make link a martial character with an obscenely high UMD score and have 99% of his in-game stuff come out via UMDs.

[BobVosh]

The bard OoT Link doesn't teleport. Need to teleport, or that game would have been terrible.

[Zeta Kai]

Most versions of Link could be decently emulated with levels in either Bard or Factotum. And as far as Navi goes, I can think of worse companions...

[ZeroNumerous]

Nitpick: Link wears chainmail.

Wind Waker Link doesn't, Ocarina of Time Link doesn't, Link to the Past Link doesn't, Minish Cap Link doesn't and Link's Awakening Link doesn't. I don't know about any others because I haven't played them.

[FMArthur]

Always remember that Link has infinite UMD and proficiency with every weapon, ever.

[Catch]

Wind Waker Link doesn't, Ocarina of Time Link doesn't, Link to the Past Link doesn't, Minish Cap Link doesn't and Link's Awakening Link doesn't. I don't know about any others because I haven't played them.

He wears a chain shirt under his tunic in Twilight Princess, as I recall.

[Jade_Tarem]

The bard OoT Link doesn't teleport. Need to teleport, or that game would have been terrible.

Fixed. Stuff to extend length.

[AstralFire]

He wears a chain shirt under his tunic in Twilight Princess, as I recall.

Doesn't the Link's Awakening DX Link also wear mail? I'm pretty sure the different colored armors/tunics in Zelda prior to OoT were mail armor.

[ZeroNumerous]

Doesn't the Link's Awakening DX Link also wear mail? I'm pretty sure the different colored armors/tunics in Zelda prior to OoT were mail armor.

But Link's Awakening Link is having a nightmare and is transplanted into the nightmare via a shipwreck. Were he wearing chainmail, he'd have drowned.

[Agmundr]

i beleive he was wearing a chain shirt.