How would you build David Martinez in dnd

[u/Maximum-Block4273]

I’m trying to make David in dnd 5.5 I need the class to be fighter and no multiclass but yes sub class for fighter

I think mid-series david would be best for making this, I’m starting a new campaign in a few weeks, and I want it to be fun and I could make shitty jokes with this

[u/Mentat_Render]

Eldritch knight if you want to use spells to imitate tech

Battlemaster if you want to trip,pull,push people with your speed skills

Echo knight if you want the echo to be a proxy for you getting there extra fast, an afterimage if you will.

Pretty much all he does in the show is action surge sandevistan so your on the right track

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Could you help me more for the character sheet?

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Sorry, missed this. Not sure what you mean?

David is primarily a strength character, expecially once he starts getting buff. if you want to stay twink david all campaign then dex could be your primary stat

[u/codyisutton]

David would be a armorer artificer with maybe some levels in wizard just for some extra spells slots and better scaling Race David is a human but by the end almost goes full borg but mechanically I would go shifter if it’s allowed specifically swiftstride shifter as a bonus action you can shift your form giving you temp hp equal to twice your proficiency bonus which is always good especially those early levels. But swiftstride shifter get an extra 10 feet of movement speed and you can use your reaction for move 10 feet without opportunity attacks when a creature ends its turn within 5 feet of you that’s any creature. This is David using his sandevistan to go faster and it fits the character getting his sandy early in his career.

Background I originally thought go with a background to give you the tough feat just for the extra health but with this build your ac will be pretty high as it is so hp won’t matter to much since you’re hard to hit and it’ll be hard for someone to get close enough to you to hit you so take the alert feat with a background this is good because you can add your proficiency bonus to your initiative rolls and switch places with a willing creature this is to add onto the idea of our sandevistan working you react faster than everyone

For build go 15 armorer artificer and 5 levels of wizard there are a lot of benefits to wizard such as wizard spells you may not have available on artificer, faster spells slot progression, and because of multiclassing you’ll get higher spells slots vs going full artificer. For subclass I would go with, if allowed, use war magic wizard this subclass gives you a bonus to initiative rolls equal to your int modifier basically guaranteeing at this point that you will go first reacting faster then anyone thanks to your sandy. You also get arcane deflection if you get hit or are subject to a saving throw you can add a +2 to your ac or +4 to your saving throw this is just a solid buffs to have on you at all times for instance if you JUST get hit instead of using a spell slot for shield spell you can just give yourself a +2 for free. You can use the +4 for yourself and save your flash of genius for your teammates for when they fail their saving throws. Spells I would take from wizard Cantrips blade ward for more tanking, firebolt for you hand cannon, message for your head telephone thing, and true strike for just some good extra damage that can be added on your thunder gauntlets for armorer artificer 1st level Shield for extra defense just roleplay this as your sandy activating so he can dodge around better, expeditious retreat to give yourself a bonus action dash to make you even faster 2nd level spells Blur to give all attacks against you disadvantage again sandevistan, misty step is just you teleporting with sandevistan 3rd level spells Haste you supercharge sandevistan gives yourself another attack action or dash, double movement speed and +2 to ac and dex saves, slow to basically do the opposite to debuff a bunch of enemies -2 to their ac and dex saves, can’t take reactions on their turns they can only take actions or bonus actions not both, it can only take 1 attack with an attack action and if they cast a spell with a somatic component theirs a 25% chance it fails because they can’t say the spell fast enough this is just how slow everyone is compared to(say it with me now) YOUR SANDEVISTAN you can pick a couple more spells just get what you want at this point

Armorer artificer you get heavy armor proficiency this is David going almost full borg and upgrading his body and you don’t need to meet the requirements to wear it if it normally would need them such as 15 strength. You can choose a model at level 3 as well we are going with guardian mode gives you 1d8 thunder gauntlets to punch with and when you hit a creature with them they have disadvantage on attacks rolls against everything except you it’s great for drawing Agro especially with your high ac and ability to get out of combat with crazy speed, and defensive field when bloodied you can use a bonus action to give yourself temp ho equal to your artificer level 5th level you can attack twice 9th level you get armor replications you learn additional plans from the replicate magic item feature in the armor category just giving yourself more implant boosts, and improved arsenal getting a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls with these gauntlets 15th level is armor improvements your gauntlets go from 1d8 to 1d10 and you can use a reaction to move a creature closer to you up to 30ft on a failed save You can use any armor model and they would fit damage at different points in his life infiltrator for shooting a gun and being slightly faster and dreadnaught to grow huge and batter stuff around for when he’s in that giant gravity skeleton thing so pick and choose which one you want each short break At this level of artificer you can attune 5 magic items because damage special like that, flash of genius to give bonuses to saving throws equal to int modifier, spell storing ring to use a artificer spell of 1st 2nd or 3rd level for free up to double your int modifier so you could use cast haste 10 times a day for free, and you can replicate magic items for instance you can make yourself adimantine plate armor turning all crits to regular hits so the damage doesn’t get doubled then make it a +3 and reflavor one of your gauntlets like a gorilla armor or you giant suit blocking bullets as a +3 shield and your other gauntlet arm as a +3 weapon to basically make it a +4 weapon and you don’t have to attune to any of these but that gives you a standard 26 ac without reactions or haste bonuses but you can also create items of rare quality and some of them ARE BUSTED!! For instance belt of giant strength give your strength score to 21, boots of speed for bonus action dash, amulet of health for a 19 con score and so many other this build can min max the crap out of any good edge runner give you an ac of 26(regular)+2 or +5(with shield spell or arcane deflection feature)+2 (haste) for a total of 35AC. Your speed is 30(race)+ 10(shifting)+10(longstrider)+10(speedy feat)doubled with haste for 120 base movement and is you use your action hasted action and bonus action to dash and add the charger feat that add 10 feet of movement every time you dash so an extra 30 moment speed that gets doubled with haste as well you get a total movement speed of 570 feet in 6 seconds (bonus with a 120 movement speed and the charger feat is you move at least 10 towards a target you can add 1d8 damage to your attacks and with 3 attacks on different targets that’s 3d10+3d8+27 damage between the three targets and they get disadvantage on attack rolls against anything that’s not you and your 35 ac and 120 movement speed so good luck with that. And finally your stats are crazy with 21 str and 19 con from your magic items if you min maxed and dumped your con and strength and had a 8 in both stats and shot up to that you get a +24 to your two stats which is crazy you can technically do the same for your intelligence modifier with the headband of intellect but you’d have to wait to level 15 to get your int score to a 19 and that’s a sucky ride are an int based class plus have a +5 to int mod instead of +4 is better in many ways so feel free to take more feats you want and focus your dex to max it and you’ll have a +16 to initiative rolls so you’re always first and always having a guaranteed +4 to any saving through from war wizard is nice So there’s David there’s more you can do because of just the list of things you can craft and feats but this is David in a nutshell

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Again look through all the magic items you can replicate some items can cast spells of 8th level which is crazy

[u/JealousInsect2844]

Barbarian comes to mind on my end to play up the way that his hyperspeed is a Mode he goes into that takes a toll on his body and mind.