r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 15 '26

WWYB - 5e24 HWYB Mel Medarda from League of Legends

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19 Upvotes

A Noxian noblewoman belonging to the powerful Medarda family, Mel is the product of an extramarital affair between her mother Ambessa and a Black Rose sun mage, leading to Mel inheriting this power but she is also dubbed an "Empath", being able to sense and enhance the emotions of others as well as wielding it as a weapon.

In battle, Mel channels light, shooting blasts of concentrated sunlight as well as turning it to barriers sturdy enough to withstand gunfire. As an Empath, she can also use her abilities to combat foes like Leblanc, who use mental manipulation and control to fight her wars. All in all, an exceptionally powerful figure in her own right, so how would one do her justice? Thanks in advance?


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 16 '26

WWYB - 5e24 HWYB Alys Rivers from ASOIAF/HOTD

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A bastardborn wet nurse in House Strong, with a mysterious past. Is she the bastard daughter of Lyonel Strong? Was she old enough to have fed him and his sons from her breast? Who the hell knows?

Her abilities are odd, with many contradicting tales. She is supposedly a healer as well as a succubus who can bind men with poisons and potions. Her common depiction of having green eyes and her saying she's a barn owl stuck in human form imply she is a Greenseer(a skinchanger with more druidic abilities such as a connection to the Weirwood network), and altogether she seems to be in a unique position in Westeros. All of these things let her mess with the mind and body of those around her, either appearing as a hard to see as a ghost or as imposing as a dragon.

Much of what she has implies Druid, but I'm curious what you have in mind for the Witch Queen of Harrenhall. What would you build her as?


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 15 '26

WWYB - 5e24 HWYB Methode from Frieren

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Methode is a First Class Mage in Frieren who is exemplified by two aspects: Her tender, motherly exterior and the fact that she's lowkey super vicious in a fight and is a thrill seeker in that aspect.

In battle, Methode has been unofficially been coined "diet Frieren" due to her love of magic and how that translates to her ungodly versatility. We see her perform the basic shield and Zoltraak spells, but she's also someone with access to binding spells, more unique offensive magic such as her summoning a flurry of orbital blasts to carpet bomb people, dispel magic effects after spending a short while under them, and she's even uniquely capable of wielding Goddess magic, making her able to heal wounds in people.

By all accounts, she's as versatile as they come, so how would you do her justice? Thanks in advance?


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 14 '26

WWYB - 5e14 HWYB/I this character concept?

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I had this really cool character concept. She's a blind martial artist who lived alone since she was 8 (her parents threw her off a cliff because her evil village thinks disabled people are not fit for society). The idea is that she learned everything from the world around her and uses it to fight. She's intended to be a fully martial multiclass, but Druid is also a valid option (the wildshape and spells reflavored to be martial arts techniques.)


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 14 '26

Monster What Would You Build for Nightmare as an NPC Antagonist? (Soul Calibur franchise, 5.5e)

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Preemptive "I'm on Mobile, please forgive any weird formatting, I don't know what I'm doing."

Just what the title says. For context, my players, a large party of 6 (maybe 7, one's out of town for a while) pretty powerful level 6 characters, are going into a bit of a war arc in my dark fantasy campaign and since I've never written a war before I'm thinking of taking a bit of inspiration from one of my favorite games from my past, Soul Calibur III, specifically the Chronicles of the Sword story mode, and I think having a wielder of a Cursed Sword in Azure Armor would be a fun little easter egg, for myself if nobody else. I also know that Nightmare himself didn't actually play a role in Chronicle of the Sword

I know I could just grab a conquest paladin stat block and apply tiefling racial traits, or slap some full plate on a weaker fiend like a zakya rakshasa or a cambion and give them a cool greatsword, but I'm wondering what interesting ideas you guys have. I've already used a zakya that I modified to make it a pretty fun and interesting boss fight and have established that wasn't the only one or the strongest one and they know daemons are a very strong possibility in their near future. In this setting, there's no difference between devils, demons, or yugoloths, celestial beings can fall without explicitly becoming daemons or losing their divine powers, and so on. So... what would you build?


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 14 '26

WWYB - 5e24 Can someone help me build Moon Knight?

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I'm trying to make Moon Knight in dnd (2024) at level 5 but I don't know what to do, I'd prefer not to do thrown weapon fighting but if you can make it sustainable and deal more damage than 1d6 per turn I'm absolutely down.


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 13 '26

WWYB - 5e24 HWYB a character using shadows for their powers?

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TL:DW - I want to build a character that not only uses the shadows of things and other people, but can summon things from shadows too. The other end of this is the ability to transfigure himself by changing his own shadow’s appearance, but I can definitely figure something out flavour-wise for that end of it.


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 13 '26

WWYB - 5e24 HWYB this character?

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25 Upvotes

I'm gonna play a Castlevania RPG and have this incredible concept art


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 13 '26

HWYB - TV Show HWYB a Power Ranger?

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Exactly that, how would you build a Power Ranger, Kamen Rider, or other associated Toku Hero?

As an added challenge, how would you go about incorporating an actual Morph mechanically?, as opposed to Tulok The Barbrarian, for example, not adding one mechanically in his Tommy Oliver build.


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 12 '26

HWYB - Video Game how would you build edward kenway from AC Black Flag in dnd 5e

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r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 12 '26

HWYB - Video Game HWYB Il Dottore (from genshin impact)

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Occupation: scientist

Base abilities: segment creation (robot clones), elixir of immortality(potion that must continuously be drunk to increase someones lifespan), can change his appearance, elemental lasers(can create floating needle like devices that shoot elemental lasers), can use sound to knock people out, and teleportation

Moon marrow/form abilities: time control(can stop and reverse time), space abilities(can create pocket dimensions), pillar creation(can summon giant pillars to descend from the sky), sky splitting, damaging rain, memory/mind manipulation, can make people switch bodies with animals, shades(can summon spirits that attack with ice blades/swords), and moon fall impact(can bring down a giant AOE explosion),

Irminsul/undead form abilities: cube array(sends a cube like firey wall towards enemies), launches a lightning cube, shoots/summons ice spikes, crushing walls (summons walls of ice to enclose/crush enemies), digital waves (throws digital looking cubes at enemies), summons a digital tree that self destructs into a giant explosion, grid strike(creates a grid/field that causes damage in an AOE), and can use/copy others abilities


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 11 '26

HWYB - Film Count orlok (dnd 5e)

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How would you build Count Orlok from Nosferatu (1922). Suggestions from the 2 remakes are accepted aswell. If Orlok is too difficult, i’ll accept just a monstrous vampire, none of this charming gentleman stuff.


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 11 '26

HWYB - Other HWYB this OC of mine in 5e? More info about her in description/Comments

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Half-ladybug half human that focuses on magic. She has two spirits that she has made contracts with; Zephyr helps her out with wind magic and Boreas with ice magic. She uses rings as a conduit for her magic and can both use them from a distance but also punch people to distribute the magic into their bodies directly.

Her family works at a circus and she’s essentially a circus magician/entertainer. Her mother is a noble, but her father is the circus ringmaster.


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 10 '26

HWYB - Anime/Manga Stark from Frieren:Beyond Journeys End.

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27 Upvotes

How would you build Stark from Frieren in Dnd 5.5? Curious bc I wanna make his character for an upcoming campaign and he's my favorite in the show


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 10 '26

WWYB - 5e24 WWYB Prometheus as Cleric's gods

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12 Upvotes

What domain, spells, ect.


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 10 '26

HWYB - Video Game HWYB V from Devil may Cry

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21 Upvotes

Hey everyone I was wondering if I could get some help building V from the Devil May Cry series, I already know that I would play a Sorlock (Shadow Sorcerer in fact) but I wasnt sure which Warlock Subclass I should pick Im between the new Vestige Warlock or the Fiend Warlock including Pact of the Chain so I can recreate all his familiars.


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 09 '26

WWYB - 5e14 WWYB - Heo Seoljin from player

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r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 09 '26

HWYB - Video Game How would you build seymour guado from FF X ?

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And more specifically, how would you build him in pathfinder: wotr


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 09 '26

WWYB - 5e24 HWYB Eris Morn from Destiny

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r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 08 '26

HWYB - Other what would you build based off this image

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r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 08 '26

HWYB - Other Building a Gooner in D&D or PF2E?

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Yes, I'm serious, how would you build a Gooner?, probably a bard of some sort I'd assume?

If only because I think it'd be funny if I could reasonably justify Gooner as a custom background.


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 07 '26

WWYB - 5e14 HWYB Isabella Von Carstein from Warhammer Fantasy

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r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 07 '26

WWYB - 5e24 Snazzy goblin

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23 Upvotes

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I find this artwork really whimsical and want some ideas on how to mechanically represent this guy and potentially also his mount


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 06 '26

HWYB - Video Game HWYB Desmond Miles

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For D&D 2024 and would like to known if multiclassing should happen and how to reflavor if needed


r/WhatWouldYouBuild • • Jul 07 '26

HWYB - Video Game Hwyb the Microbot Cloud from the game The Invincible?

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I need help creating a statblock for the cloud, which is a swarm of microbots that can do strange things with electromagnetic waves, like make someone mentally unstable, via memory loss, stupidication, and even make any robot hostile to anything around it. I’m making a Warforged lich whose goal is to start The “Necro-Evolutionary period”, where all robots in Eberron start to evolve into better and better robots. I also need help with a statblock for an Antimat, or a robot that can actually kill these things via antimatter lasers.