PHS #259 Old School Characters As D&D 5e Characters

["Unfettered"]

This is something I've always tinkered with in the back of my mind ever since I was introduced to 4e by John. With the recent explosion of content from Wizards of the Coast, a lot of characters (but not quite all just yet) have become more realizable. I would say this is something I'd do for myself, but by posting it publicly, this inherently opens it up to scrutiny.

With that in mind, I'm going to do the best re-iteration of characters who used to exist in 259's past. I'll do my best to accomodate when available, but obviously, I only got to know a handful of these people and their characters personally to really get a gist of how their characters might look like. I'm also not really opening up any books and doing a fair amount of this by memory pretty fast and loose. There's gonna be a ton of missing characters. Maybe if I have time, I'll include an explanation of why I set certain characters as certain archetypes/races/etc. We'll see.

That said! There's a bit of Dungeon Master variant rules and homebrew and non-Adventurer's League friendly stuff when crafting these results, so please keep the following in mind:

-Dungeon Master's Guide Variant Rule: Gaining Feats and Ability Score Increases beyond Level 20.
-We're assuming Point Buy over Rolling Stats as it's a finicky/meta topic when done exclusively online. Less questions of trust asked.
-Matt Coleville's "Strongholds & Followers" handbook.
-Including all the WotC material, including the Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, Dungeon Master's Guide, Sword Coast Adventure Guide, Volo's Guide to Monsters, Mordekainen's Tome of Foes, etc.
-I won't be factoring in/mentioning the "Deities" from the Points of Light, Forgotten Realms, Eberron, etc. settings. That's something that should be decided after the fact as 259 was originally based on an exaggeration of our world/lifepoint1's XIN animation.
-Everyone was goddamned pretty. The anime influences were heavy here, so for literally inhuman/non-pretty races, 1) most people wouldn't fit the known stereotypes and 2) I'd probably err away from them. Feel free to make a take on your own character, I'll happily be wrong. The most direct example would be Leon Sudeki---in an anime-fashion, would probably look human-esque.
-Certain Unearthed Arcana.
-Dungeon Master's Guide Variant Rule: Lingering Wounds for those people out there who are blind or missing eyes (hint hint wink wink)

Leon Sudeki:
Blue or Bronze Dragonborn Samurai or Battlemaster Fighter

Mitsuki Park:
Changeling or Variant Human Thief Rogue

Bastille Alana Violette Cunningham:
Centaur Ancients Paladin or Cavalier Fighter

Gabriel Seran:
Variant Human or Fallen Aasimar 8 Conquest Paladin, 4 Hexblade Warlock, 8 Divine Sorcerer

"Unfettered" Winters:
Variant Human Lore Bard with Missing Eye

Richard Stock:
Half Elf 12 Scout Rogue, 6 Lore Bard, 1 Knowledge Cleric, 1 Ranger

Valekin Von Kaluskov XII:
Drow 12 Mastermind Rogue, 8 Shadow Sorcerer or Umbral Ranger

Matthew Amtrum:
Goliath or Earth Genasi Totem Barbarian

Jenesis Exodus:
(Fallen, Scourge, or Protector, depending her place in her storyline) Aasimar Divine Soul Sorcerer

Delilah Black:
Variant Human or Wood Elf or Half-Elf 12 Thief Rogue, 8 Shadow Monk

Masaru:
Variant Human or (Any) Aasimar or Kalashtar Open-Palm or Weapon Monk

Kazuya Hikari:
Variant Human Elemental Monk

David Blaze:
Variant Human Storm Sorcerer

Olesya Van deBogart:
Variant Human Swashbuckler Rogue

Stu Pott:
Variant Human Champion Fighter

Dots:
Variant Human or Fallen Aasimar or Hengeyokai Open-Palm Monk (Primarily for the sudden-death ability)

Vespyr:
Eladrin or Shadar-Kai Assassin Rogue

Leta May:
Eladrin or Wood Elf Knowledge or Life Cleric

Emily Santos:
Stout Halfling Valor Bard

"Tuvlan":
Variant Human Champion Fighter

Feel free to add characters you knew and your own take on them!

[Mitsuki Park]

I like.