#dnd build

Ancestry & Background

Huyan Zhuo is obviously a human, but this version of her has been mixed with an Empusa, a greek monster that is somehow one-legged, donkey-legged, and a shape-shifter, all at the same time. good job guys, that description is super helpful. the important thing is that she’s a regular person mixed with a shapeshifting monster, which in D&D terms would make her a Dispater Tiefling. that gives her Darkvision, Hellish Resistance against fire damage, and the Legacy of Dis. at first level, you can use Thaumaturgy freely, using charisma to cast the spell. of course what we’re really here for is at third level, where you get one free use of Disguise Self per day. as far as I know Huyan Zhuo doesn’t actually use any shapeshifting, so this is all we’re getting this build. you also get Detect Thoughts once a day when you hit level 5. just because you’re anxious doesn’t mean they’re not dissing you behind your back. now you’ll know for sure! if you can ever work up the nerve to use it.

because you ditched your actual job to join a bunch of rogues, you’re an Anarch (technically of the Gruul variety, but that part can be flexible). all Mt. Liang bandits are Gruul Anarchs, don’t look at Sassyshin’s build. this means you have an extended spell list, but there’s a lot of them so we’ll only bring up the important ones when they show up. the character sheet does have them all though, if you want to keep track.

Ability Scores

Zhuo’s clubs are so feared she gained a nickname from how well she uses them, which is really impressive considering they only deal 1d4 of damage on their own. that means her Strength has to come first. After that is Charisma- the “so insecure she needs constant validation” schtick is hit or miss, but she is part mind-controlling monster, so it still gets a boost. third is Constitution. one of her legs is metal, so that means she has less chance of bleeding out when hit. it’s pure math. fourth is Intelligence, taking up the vaunted “not neutral or negative but not positive enough to be good” slot. it’s literally here just because I figured out where to put everything else first. that means your Dexterity is just neutral. Huyan Zhuo is actually pretty heavily armored for a female servant in FGO, and I’m happy to take any excuse to not have to make every stat an 18. finally, we’re dumping Wisdom, for hopefully obvious reasons. people can control you with flattery already, never mind someone casting Friends on you. if it could get lower, I’d put it lower.

Class Levels

1. Paladin 1: first level paladins get a Divine Sense, which you can use four times a day to detect celestials, fiends, or undead nearby. you are literally celestial by the water margin’s standards, and at least partially demonic in D&D, so either way you’ll be setting this one off on yourself a lot.

you can also Lay on Hands as an action. it doesn’t have a set number of uses, but you do get a set amount of HP you can restore each day equal to five times your level. you can also spend five HP from your total to heal a creature of a disease or poison. now your HP total will be able to swing just as quickly as your mood!

also as a paladin you unfortunately get proficiency in Wisdom saves, but you also get Charisma saves, Intimidation, and Persuasion as well. Huyan Zhuo’s first ascension takes itself pretty seriously ngl.

2. Paladin 2: second level paladins get a Fighting Style, and nothing else really fits here, so Defense will have to do. that’s just an easy +1 whenever you wear armor, which you should be doing a lot. you can also cast and prepare Spells using your Charisma, though we’ll got into that more in a bit.

more importantly, you can turn spell slots into Divine Smites whenever you hit with an attack, turning a spell slot into raw radiant damage. now your clubs are finally useful! for two times a day. and assuming you don’t cast any other spells.

speaking of spells, let’s talk about those. you get quite a few freebies immediately thanks to being an anarch, but we don’t really want any of them just yet. that being said, from the base spell list, Divine Favor lets you deal damage over time. it’s not a huge boost in damage (normally, it still doubles your damage with a club), but if you’re confident you won’t get hit by anything it can be a really save your spell slots. Alternatively, you can use Wrathful Smite. the smite spells add extra effects (in this case frightening your target if they fail a wisdom save) at the cost of not upgrading with higher spell slots, and costing your bonus action.

3. Paladin 3: third level paladins finally join their oath… or at least they would, but your oath is… Oathbreaker. which is a bit awkward. oathbreakers can use Channel Divinity once per short rest to either Control Undead or let out your Dreadful Aspect. the former forces an undead creature to make a wisdom save. if they fail, they’re under your control for a full 24 hours, or until you Control Undead again, though they automatically succeed if their CR is equal or greater to your paladin level. the latter forces every creature you choose within 30’ of you to make a wisdom save- if they fail, they’re frightened of you for a minute, though it’s a little easier for them to break out than usual. finally, you can instead Harness Divine Power once a day, expending one channel divinity use to recharge a spell slot.

like all paladins, you also get a bit of Divine Health, though oathbreakers don’t have an oath with any gods so I don’t know where it’s coming from. real useful in the middle of a pandemic though.

finally, oathbreakers get their own freebie spells, so your potential spell list it truly gargantuan for a paladin. you can either use a Hellish Rebuke to counter an attack with flames or Inflict Wounds at melee range. it’s basically a stronger, but less accurate smite.

4. Paladin 4: fourth level paladins get their first Ability Score Improvement, though we’re using it to grab the Dual Wielder feat. be honest, you were just drawing both clubs in one free action anyway, weren’t you? the only real benefit we get from this feat (unless your DM is a real stickler for rules) is an AC boos, but we’ll take whatever we can get since we can’t do the usual sword & board.

5. Paladin 5: fifth level paladins get an Extra Attack each action, so with two weapons you can get… three attacks per turn! yep, the offhand attack never gets any better throughout the build. it makes sense- actually doubling your attacks per turn would be really broken. still, you have three smite chances per turn, which can still be a lot of damage, especially with your second level spell slots.

oh yeah, speaking of- none of your extended options are more useful than divine smites. you can use Find Steed now though! still not sure why Huyan Zhuo isn’t a rider, to be honest. her story seems to be way more horse-centric than assassination-centric. yeah, for once we’re not picking up magic weapon here- by the time you’re regularly encountering enemies that resist or block nonmagical damage your clubs’ d4s will practically be a rounding error in terms of damage anyway.

6. Fighter 1: moving over to fighter, we can get Two Weapon Fighting as our Fighting Style, which actually is helpful! now you can add your strength to your offhand club damage. that’s a whopping three extra damage per turn, which doesn’t sound like a lot but that’s practically another extra attack on its own.

you could also use that bonus action for a Second Wind, giving you yet another way to heal yourself in a pinch. if I did the math right, you could practically bring yourself up from 1 hp to full health in one turn now!

7. Fighter 2: there is a bigger reason to pop into fighter though- second level fighters can use an Action Surge once per short rest. that is a no-strings-attached extra action: you can cast a second levelled spell in a turn with it, or just pump out more attacks for a grand total of five in one turn. you may not hit for much, but you do hit a lot.

8. Paladin 6: at sixth level, you gain the thing that messed with Astolfo’s build as well, the Aura of Protection, adding your charisma modifier to every save you or a friend within ten feet of you makes for as long as you’re conscious. this is the exact opposite of lowering your wisdom save, but it’s simply unavoidable.

9. Paladin 7: at seventh level, oathbreakers get an Aura of Hate, giving yourself, fiends, and undead near you a +3 bonus to all melee weapon damage. uniquely, you don’t actually have to be conscious for this one. okay, now your clubs are starting to do decent damage again! maybe invest in those magic weapons after all.

you can also use Harness Divine Power twice a day now.

10. Paladin 8: at eighth level, you get another ASI, so bump up that Strength for more accurate and damaging club swings. if we’re gonna pour good money after bad into this, we might as well do it right.

11. Paladin 9: ninth level paladins get third level spells. if you really want to maximize your damage capabilities, the oathbreaker exclusive Animate Dead can help, or you can use the gruul anarch’s Conjure Animals for a more traditional looking herd of horses. if your dm does sign off on letting you make a bunch of undead horses, it would be really funny to have them all under the effect of Crusader’s Mantle. it’s like divine favor- a slow-burn smite- but it affects every friendly creature within 30’ of you. if you can keep that spell up for even a round or two it’ll more than pay for itself.

12. Paladin 10: tenth level paladins get an Aura of Courage, preventing friendly creatures within it from being frightened. fortunately, “demoralized” isn’t “frightened”, so it doesn’t actually mess with Huyan Zhuo’s whole schtick too much.

13. Paladin 11: eleventh level paladins get an Improved Divine Smite, adding a d8 of radiant damage to every melee weapon attack you do.

14. Paladin 12: at twelfth level, use your next ASI to grab the Crusher feat, rounding out your Constitution for an extra HP each time you level up, including retroactively. it also lets you push people around when you hit them with a bludgeoning attack each turn, and crits cause everyone attacking that creature to get advantage to hit them until your next turn. yes, like a surprisingly large number of quick servant builds, this one’s also a crit-fishing bonanza! why did you think we wanted so many attacks?

15. Paladin 13: thirteenth level paladins get fourth level spells, so we can finally get some of Empusa’s mind-controlling effects. from your extended spell lists, Confusion and Dominate Beast work best for this. you can also use Stoneskin thanks to being an anarch, which.. kinda? works. I mean your leg’s metal, not stone, but close enough.

you can also pick up Banishment for your invuln pierce this level- it doesn’t matter how much damage you’re doing if you can just. undo someone in one hit.

16. Paladin 14: ironically, at this level paladins gain a Cleansing Touch- you can use your action to end one spell on yourself or a willing creature three times a day. I mean it makes some kind of sense- you can just hypnotize people to… not be hypnotized? I guess? this is confusing.

17. Paladin 15: what’s less confusing is your last goodie from being an oathbreaker, your Supernatural Resistance, halving the damage you take from non-magical weapons. obviously empusa aren’t in D&D but they feel like the kind of monster to have damage resistances.

18. Paladin 16: use your last ASI to max out your Strength. I mean we might as well. gotta get those damage numbers up for farming.

19. Paladin 17: at long last, we finally get our fifth level spells, including Huyan Zhuo’s noble phantasm, Destructive Wave. for extra authenticity, be sure to conjure up a bunch of horses before using this! your empusa side also lets you use Geas and Dominate Person, and you can invuln pierce without having to save if you use a Banishing Smite- using your strength is also much more accurate than a spell at this point.

20. Paladin 18: our final level of the build causes all your auras to reach out 30’ around you instead of a measly 10 feet. it’s not flashy, but it is pretty dang useful, especially if you’re zipping around the battlefield on a horse.

Pros & Cons:

Pros:

like all paladins, Huyan Zhuo is particularly powerful when it comes to burst damage, though her extra dip into fighter makes her even moreso. with action surge and all your most powerful spell slots, you could deal an average of 173 damage in a single turn, up to a maximum of over 280!

your abilities also make you surprisingly good at leading an army, which fits your noble phantasm being a ton of horses trampling people. admittedly it does work better with undead subordinates, but still.

you are incredibly sturdy when it comes to physical attacks, though you’re no slouch against magic either. your strength and classes let you don the sturdiest of armor, giving you an ac of 20 while your weapons are drawn, plus your resistance to nonmagical attacks making your solid health even tougher to break through.

Cons:

much like Huyan Zhuo herself, this build doesn’t last long in a fight. you can only action surge once in a fight, and if you run at full power you’ll completely exhaust your spell slots in four turns.

this build also lacks a specific focus, just kind of doing a couple things well, but they don’t quite work together. you can raise an undead army and buff them with magic, but that’ll eat into your high level spells for however long you try to keep them for- and as a paladin your spells are already at a premium. your direct damage dealing is also drawing from the same well, and of course, using clubs instead of any other weapon doesn’t help. of course you could use your defense to play the tank, drawing in problem enemies with compelled duels and such, but your constitution isn’t that good, and without something like warcaster, drawing too much attention will likely cause more problems than it sovles.

Ancestry & Background

Iyo is, of course, a Human-ish. at the very least she’s a variant of one, so that means she gets +1 Strength & Wisdom, as well as proficiency in Nature, and the feat Scion of the Outer Planes (Evil). thankfully there’s no alignment requirements for this, so you don’t actually have to play an evil character to get your resistance to necrotic damage and a free Chill Touch cantrip. We’re not getting the follow-up feat this time, but it felt like a nice nod to Iyo’s backstory.

Speaking of backstories, Iyo is an Acolyte, which gives her proficiency in the skills Insight and Religion. Your skill with the former probably explains why you cut ties with your previous religion, come to think of it.

Ability Scores

Iyo’s highest ability score is Wisdom, as both of your classes use it extensively. After that is Dexterity, as Iyo doesn’t wear armor and manages to survive doing so, as well as needs it for multiclassing. Third is Strength. You’re nowhere near as powerful as Himiko, but you do get some solid kicks in from time to time. we’re of course giving you a positive Constitution because we don’t hate ourselves, so that means your Intelligence is nothing to write home about, and your Charisma is abysmal. you were almost literally raised by wolves, I think. it’s been a while since her event.

Class Levels

1. Ranger 1: starting off as a ranger gets you plenty of goodies- you’re proficient in Strength & Dexterity saves, as well as Animal Handling, Perception, & Stealth. you also get your first Favored Enemy, which gives you bonuses to track and recall information about Celestials. you were raised to fight them and work for them, so it works out no matter how you slice it. that’s also why you’re Canny when it comes to Religion since you’re a Deft Explorer. it’s just doubled proficiency.

2. Ranger 2: at second level, rangers can finally use Spells, like Beast Bond and Hunter’s Mark. the latter adds extra damage to your attacks against a single target and you can track them more easily, which is nice since we still only have your kicks to deal damage with, and Sanji you certainly are not. meanwhile, the former lets you form a psychic link with a friendly beast for up to ten minutes. as long as you two are in line of sight, you can share telepathic messages, and the beast gets advantage on attack rolls against enemies you both can see.

you also get the Blind Fighting fighting style, letting you instantly know the exact location of any creature within ten feet of you. turns out being the oracle of darkness means you’ll be in the dark a lot, and your puny human eyes can’t really see in that.

let’s fix that.

3. Ranger 3: third level rangers gain a Primal Awareness of the world around them, letting you cast a whole bunch of cool spells. right now you learn Speak with Animals for free, but more will come with time.

speaking of spells, you can cast Detect Poison and Disease now, which is just kind of a neat thing for a ruler to be able to do. sure wish our rulers could do that, they’d probably have way less issue with vaccines if they could.

but you’re also a Gloom Stalker, which gets you yet another freebie spell- Disguise Self. this 100% doesn’t fit the build it’s just a bonus for joining up with the subclass.

the stuff we do want are the gloomstalker abilities like Dread Ambusher, which adds your wisdom to your initiative and speeds up your first turn in terms of literal speed and extra damage, and Umbral Sight, which gives you 60 of Darkvision plus invisibility against other darkvision-using creatures. which is… everyone but humans and dragonborn, basically.

4. Ranger 4: use your first Ability Score Improvement to bump up your Strength a little. you mostly use magic, but we don’t really have a good spammable magic option yet, so your feet will have to pick up the slack for now.

5. Ranger 5: in that same vein, your Extra Attack this level lets you attack twice per action. Iyo does have two feet, after all.

your oracle abilities now expand to let you Locate Objects, and you also get Rope Trick and Beast Sense for free from your subclass and class, respectively.

6. Ranger 6: at sixth level you can pick another Favored Enemy, and we’re grabbing Fiend this time. that’s probably the closest description to your old boss, and you definitely end up fighting him plenty too.

you’re also a Roving Deft Explorer now, granting you a slight boost in movement speed, as well as a significantly faster climbing and swimming speed. Just ‘cause we’re not going with monk levels doesn’t mean we can’t get some mobility options.

7. Ranger 7: seventh level gloom stalkers gain an Iron Mind, giving you proficiency on Wisdom saves. you can’t be fooled by illusions if it’s too dark to see them, duhhh.

also you can cast Aid now, giving up to three creatures an extra 5 HP for the day.

8. Ranger 8: at level eight you get another ASI, so bump up that Constitution for more not-dying. you can also use your Land’s Stride now, letting you move through nonmagical difficult terrain like it wasn’t there, and you have advantage on saves against, specifically, magical plants. I’m sure there’s plenty of those in the void.

9. Ranger 9: with our last level of ranger, we finally get third level spells! your freebies are Fear & Speak with Plants, but we’re here for the one we can choose- Conjure Animals. now you can use wild beasts to fight divinities, just like your weirdly specific toolkit was meant to do! for some reason. to be fair thanks to the action economy 24 squirrels can take on just about anything.

10. Cleric 1: now for a change of pace: time to rule! as acleric you can cast and prepare spells using your wisdom, including your freebies Faerie Fire and Sleep. for cantrips, grab Guidance and Resistance to make yourself a bit better (or to… ugh, help people, I guess.), plus Toll the Dead to finally have a spammable magic option! bells, rocks, same difference really.

since you can prepare your cleric spells each day, you don’t need to worry too much about specifics, but make sure to keep an eye out for any spells that start with Detect, as well as Protection from Evil and Good for more magical defense, and Purify Food and Drink to, y’know, actually help your country. also for your poison resistance.

but! you’re not just a cleric, but a Twilight cleric! that gives you some extra armor proficiencies, as well as granting you the Eyes of Night. now you can use darkvision up to 300 feet away, and you can share that boon with nearby creatures for up to an hour each day. you can also grant yourself or others a Vigilant Blessing for advantage on their next initiative roll. this can be used as often as you like, but only one person can use it at a time.

11. Cleric 2: second level clerics can Channel Divinity once per short rest, and once per long rest they can use one of their channel divinity uses to recharge their spell slots. on top of that, you can use channel divinity in one of two ways- Turn Undead forces nearby undead to flee from you if they fail a wisdom save. alternatively, you can create a Twilight Sanctuary as an action, making a 30’ radius bubble that’s always centered on you for up to a minute. every creature that ends its turn in the bubble can be granted either temporary HP, or removal of one charming/frightening effect.

12. Cleric 3: third level clerics get second level spells. your freebies are Moonbeam and See Invisibility, but I’d also look into Prayer of Healing, Spiritual Weapon, and Augury. the first for more support, the last for your oracle-ness, and the middle one to better serve as those prayer beads or w/e you’re always throwing around.

13. Cleric 4: use this ASI to bump up your Wisdom for stronger spells and more options to prepare. you also get another cantrip, and since you’re definitely working for gods now, pick up Thaumaturgy.

14. Cleric 5: fifth level clerics can Destroy Undead instead of turning them if their CR is ½ or less. you also get third level spells, like Aura of Vitality and Leomund’s Tiny Hut, though we’re more interested in the ones you can choose like Bestow Curse, Magic Circle, Mass Healing Word, Spirit Guardians, and Clairvoyance. yeah, you have a lot of options this level. almost like Iyo’s some kind of powerful spellcaster or something.

15. Cleric 6: sixth level clerics can channel divinity twice per short rest, or recharge using it twice per day. you also learn how to take Steps of Night, letting you fly as a bonus action as long as you’re in dim light or darkness. each use lasts a minute, and you can use this proficiency times per day. interestingly, this feature only checks the light level when you use it, so you can fly through a brightly lit area as much as you wish. I wouldn’t say Iyo really has flight, but pretty much every NP involves its user floating into the air by this point so I won’t lose sleep over it.

16. Cleric 7: you know the deal, it’s an odd level so we get more magic. your freebies are Aura of Life and Greater Invisibility. you’re already in darkness so much you might as well be invisible, but we’re here more for the choice spells, like Doomtide and Divination. obviously the latter is just more oracle stuff, but the former is a new spell from… *shudder* the new ruleset. translated to 5e, it makes a 20’ radius sphere of fog-induced darkness, which is basically regular darkness but strong winds can dispel it. each creature that enters the sphere or starts their turn in it makes a wisdom save. on a failure, they take 5d6 psychic damage and have their saves reduced by 1d6 until the end of their next turn, with half damage and no extra effects on a success. each turn, the sphere drifts ten feet away from you.

it’s a shame that it can’t stick in one spot, but the flavor of it was too good to pass up on.

17. Cleric 8: at eighth level you can max out your Wisdom, and Destroy Undead hits CR 1 creatures now. you also gain Divine Strikes- once per turn, you can add radiant damage to one weapon attack. with this and hunter’s mark, your kicks are a weapon worth fearing, if an impractical one to actually use.

18. Cleric 9: time for fifth level spells! Circle of Power and Mislead are your freebies, but we’re here for Commune to get answers straight from the source, and Hollow to make a little slice of the void here on earth. or heaven. guess it depends on how far along your character arc is at this point.

19. Cleric 10: tenth level clerics get Divine Intervention, where you beg god to help your specific problem and there’s a 1/10 chance they’ll actually help. if you fail, you can try again tomorrow; but if you succeed, you have to wait a whole week. it’s potentially super powerful. but only potentially. a 1/10 shot shouldn’t be counted on, but it might just save you as a literal hail mary shot.

20. Cleric 11: eleventh level clerics can destroy CR 2 undead, but you’re here for the final level of spells! unfortunately there aren’t many I actually like for Iyo at sixth level. the only one that sticks out to me is Dirge, also from the new ruleset. when cast, you make a 60’ bubble around yourself for up to a minute, choosing any creatures you like to be unaffected by the spell. while active, creatures within can’t regain HP, and whenever the spell and a creature overlap (or the creature starts its turn inside), they’re forced to make a constitution save. on a failure, they take 3d10 necrotic damage and fall prone. on a successful save, the damage is halved, as is the creature’s speed. of course, this only happens once per turn, so you can’t just walk back and forth hitting one guy over and over again.

Pros & Cons:

Pros:

just like her fgo form, this Iyo has plenty of Magic Resistance, with proficiency in the two most common magic saves in the game, plus further resistances to the most common status effects.

unsurprisingly, picking two different subclasses that specialize in hanging out in the darkness makes you pretty dang good at stealth, no matter what your actual abilities are. slip into darkness and become literally invisible to just about everything in the game, and if there’s no darkness, you can easily make some for yourself.

we didn’t go too much into detail about the cleric spell list, but it gives you some of the best support spells in the game for your party, and this build is largely about helping everyone out, whether through buffs or overwhelming numbers via summoned animals.

Cons:

rushing to get conjure animals left us without a good combat spell for almost ten levels, with nothing else to work with except monkless unarmed strikes. if you actually plan on playing this character I highly recommend either swallowing your pride and using actual weapons, or add a cleric level or two earlier in the build.

on a related note, you won’t actually get much of a chance to kick people what with your squishiness making melee combat a rough sell for you. you have a decent amount of HP, but if we’re playing to character you wouldn’t be wearing armor, which means you have a grand total of 12 AC. again, this is only playing to character- obviously you could just wear armor if you want.

Ancestry & Background

there’s a couple ways to make a wolfman in D&D 5e, but we want some claws, and that complicates things. the only wolfish option with natural weaponry belongs to the Longtooth Shifter, but as the name implies you’re not a wolf the whole time in that one. one minute of wolfdom per day does not a werewolf make! so if we want claws for applause all the time, we need to go with… Tabaxi. yes, we’re making a dog out of a cat, don’t worry, flavor can fix anything. besides, there’s some overlap between the two, just look at hyenas and foxes.

as a lil’ catdog, you get +2 Charisma and +1 Dexterity, as well as some Wolf’s Claws so your unarmed strikes deal slashing damage and start at a d6 from the get-go. you’re also proficient in Perception and Stealth for free, and your Lupine Agility lets you double your movement for one turn, but you have to stand still to recharge it. woodwose is definitely some kind of greyhound, so that checks out, honestly.

and of course, the duke is a Noble. that’s proficiency in History and Persuasion in the bag! shame it’s not insight…

Ability Scores

Dexterity has to be your highest skill. you don’t fight in armor, and you don’t need to. after that is Constitution. invincible skin is kind of both of those abilities rolled into one if you think about it- stupid high AC and never getting KO’d. the only armor thicker than your own hide is Guda’s plot armor! third is Wisdom- I’d love this one to be lower, but we need it for multiclassing. shame. after that is Charisma. Woodwose is treated pretty badly by the other fae, but they’re also just kind of Like That to everyone, so ~\_o_/~ This means our Strength is pretty low given how much brute force woodwose can dish out, but you’re a monk so it doesn’t matter for you. finally, that means we’re dumping Intelligence. usually I have to come up with an excuse for this since anime characters tend to be good at everything, but woody really got read to shit during the fall of faerie britain, so it’s more justified than usual.

Class Levels

1. Monk 1: starting as a monk gets you proficiency in Athletics and Acrobatics, because like. I know he’s a faerie, but most of the magic he knows is how to cast These Hands. he also get proficiency in Strength and Dexterity saves.

you also get your monk keystones, Unarmored Defense and Martial Arts. the former lets you add your wisdom modifier to your AC while not wearing armor (so. +1) while the latter gives you several bonuses to your attacks while not using armor. you can use dexterity instead of strength for your attack and damage rolls with unarmed attacks, and you deal a minimum of a d4 of damage with them- obviously that’s not a big deal right now since you’re starting ahead of the pack, but it grows as you level up. you can also spend your bonus action attacking if you spent your action attacking.

I mean, obviously. you have two hands.

2. Monk 2: speaking of having two things, when you have two levels you can regain an amount of Ki equal to your monk level on a short rest and then spend it as a bonus action to attack twice after attacking as your action, dodge, disengage, or dash. those last two also double your jump distance, in case you ever fight somewhere that isn’t a flat plain six people can fit on.

on a related note, your Unarmored Movement also kicks in this level, adding ten feet to your speed while unarmored and also growing as you level up.

3. Monk 3: at third level you become a Drunken Master, which despite the name has very little do to with actually getting drunk. I say very little and not nothing bc you do get proficiency with brewers’ tools as well as Performance. you also get a Drunken Technique, so when you use your flurry of blows to attack as a bonus action you also disengage for free, and get a boost to your speed at the same time. your AC should be high enough to avoid getting hit anyway, but making you invincible to blowback works even better.

speaking of becoming invincible, you can also Deflect Missiles now as a reaction. you can reduce incoming ranged weapon attack damage for free, and if you block the damage completely you can even throw the thing back by spending one ki point. I don’t think we actually fight woodwose with an archer, so you can’t say he can’t do this!

4. Monk 4: use your first Ability Score Improvement to bump up your Dexterity for better… everything, basically. also, you can Slow Fall now. if you’re going to be invincible, you have to be able to block falling damage, for plot reasons if nothing else. on the off chance you do get hurt, you can also use Quickened Healing as an action to spend a ki point and regain that much health. if a hit point is restored an nobody’s around to see it, did it ever get hurt?

5. Monk 5: fifth level’s always a great level, if only because most martial classes get their Extra Attack this turn to hit two people per action. but that’s not the only thing monks get, because Stunning Strike can turn a boss fight into a joke. when you hit any creature with any melee attack, you can spend a ki point to force a constitution save, stunning them for a round if they fail. stunning a creature gives you advantage to hit them next turn, and makes it even easier for you to keep them stunned again!

and if you need help getting that wombo combo started, you can take Focused Aim, spending up to three ki points to add a +2 per ki point to a missed attack roll.

6. Monk 6: at sixth level you can actually cast “these hands”, thanks to your Ki-Empowered Strikes making them deal magical damage as far as resistances are concerned. your movements also take on a Tipsy Sway, making you even faster in short bursts. you only spend 5 feet of movement to stand up from prone instead of half your speed- your speed’s going to be pretty high, tripping would suck otherwise. you can also spend ki when someone misses their attack on you to make them hit someone else instead! woodwose has a charm effect in his fight, so.. it kind of works, yeah?

7. Monk 7: seventh level monks get Evasion, so even when you fail your dex saves you make them, and when you make them you ignore the damage entirely. except for disintegrate, but I guess that would be your longinus in this system. you also get a Stillness of Mind. have you ever tried charming the fae? don’t.

8. Monk 8: use this ASI to max out your Dexterity. monks love their dexterity.

9. Monk 9: at ninth level monks can run up walls and over water thanks to their Unarmored Movement Improvement. it improves how you move without armor! kind of ironic since the fae can’t cross running water, but stick to ponds and you’ll be fine. we also should’ve been keeping up with your speed boosts but w/e. you could move an extra 15 feet since level 6 and will be adding yet another 5’ next level.

10. Monk 10: at tenth level your Purity of Body makes you immune to disease and poison, in direct contradiction with the bastion of fae knowledge, the pokemon type chart. still, it’s a mandatory break of character to get more in-character stuff later.

11. Monk 11: at level eleven your drunkard’s luck lets you spend two ki points to ignore any disadvantage you might have as part of an ability check, attack, or save. I told you anime characters were good at everything.

also, congrats! for the first time this build, your martial arts die is a d8, and finally bigger than the claws you started with.

12. Monk 12: we can’t get any more dexterity and we don’t want more wisdom, so for this ASI we have to get creative to get more armor- with the Eldritch Adept feat, we can grab any eldritch invocation that doesn’t come with a caveat, and Armor of Shadows fits our needs nicely- it’s free mage armor, whenever we want!

13. Monk 13: you can now speak and understand anyone thanks to the Tongue of the Sun and Moon. I mean I’ve never heard of anyone in fate needing a translator, so… eh? it fits enough.

14. Monk 14: fourteenth level monks get the second most broken shit to grace a character build, the Diamond Soul, giving you proficiency in all saves and the ability to reroll any save for one ki point. thank god you’re fighting Percival instead of working with him or you’d be unstoppable. of course you can always just stay away from the danger entirely with your total of +25 to your speed from unarmored movement.

15. Monk 15: fifteenth level monks have a Timeless Body so you don’t physically age until you die, and you don’t need to eat or drink. in other words, we have finally reached the baseline of being a fae.

16. Monk 16: use your last ASI to grab the Tough feat because we can’t be bothered to actually grow your ability scores any more. that gives you an extra +32 to your maximum HP now, plus an extra +2 every time you level up from here on out. you get cnocked down, but you get up again. we’re never gonna keep you down.

17. Monk 17: now that we’re pretty much at the end of the lostbelt and you’ve lost everything, you can enter an Intoxicated Frenzy when you use your flurry of blows, letting you attack up to five times instead of the usual two, as long as each hit is aimed at a different creature. you usually fight three on three, but who knows, maybe this will come in handy.

that’s especially good this level, as your claws grow to deal a d10’s worth of damage this level.

18. Sorcerer 1: okay, enough of the physical stuff, there are a few bits and bobs of magic we can’t just imitate with sheer physicality. thanks to getting magic from the wild hunt, you can speak primordial as a Wind Speaker, and your Tempestuous Magic lets you move ten feet upon casting any leveled spell without provoking attacks. monk already covered leaving combat pretty thoroughly, but I won’t pass up on the free mobility.

but speaking of magic, you can cast Spells now! real ones, not just punching! Blade Ward makes your skin even thicker for resistance to non-magical weapon attacks, and Message and Prestidigitation are just trying to cram as many little fae features into your last three levels as possible. finally we get Friends and Charm Person for actual charm effects , and Magic Missile for your beam attacks. actual beams would’ve been more on-point, but at least you can expect these to hit something at level 18.

19. Sorcerer 2: at level two, sorcerers become a Font of Magic- each day you get two sorcery points, and right now those can just be spent to make another spell slot, or you can spend a first/second level spell slot to get 1 or 2 points back, respectively. right now it just means you have one more spell slot than your book says.

and that’s great bc now you can spend those spell slots on the ultimate AC booster, Shield! when you’re hit by an attack or magic missile, you get a +5 bonus to your AC, plus immunity to magic missile for a full round.

20. Sorcerer 3: at third level sorcerers can use Metamagic to alter their spells to their liking. we’re grabbing the Extended option for one point a pop to double the length of a spell, and the Heightened metamagic to spend all our sorcery points to force disadvantage on a spell’s saving throw, that way charm person might actually work.

finally, grab Kinetic Jaunt. it’s got everything this build’s about- extra speed, no opportunity attacks, and you can move through enemies like they’re just speed bumps for up to a minute.

Pros & Cons

Pros:

woodwose is probably one of the best front line fighters we’ve built, with enough speed and maneuverability to get in and out of combat easily, but enough AC and HP that he doesn’t need to pick his battles as precisely as other monk builds. he’s far from reaching the same speeds as Atalante or Achilles, but nine times out of ten you don’t need that much speed to pick off the problem enemies or get in a good defensive position.

speaking of, woodwose has some truly ludicrous defenses to get through before anyone can even hit him. Evasion is always a godsend, and adding in his proficiency in all saves plus ways to negate disadvantage and even re-roll saves makes him nearly impossible to hit with any kind of status effect. and his AC! up to 23 AC with shield up, plus dodging for disadvantage, which is a massive difficulty spike when dealing with trying to roll that high. (for a fighter with a maxed out strength stat, that takes the odds of hitting from roughly 1 in 2 to 1 in 5.)

Cons:

all your cool stuff either runs on Ki or Sorcery Points, both of which are very limited resources. despite your title you really can’t afford to waste any heat on fights you don’t care about. which admittedly is kind of in character.

outside of magic missile you have almost no way of making a ranged attack unless your enemies are dumb enough to throw something your way first. it doesn’t matter how tough you are, if you can’t hit your enemies and they can, you’ll lose.

There are no "chugging explosives recklessly around to fight" classes.

there are however artificers who make explosive shit and barbarians insane enough to consider throwing dynamite a martial art

Plus I needed something to compliment the Ghost Statblock I made

(This is basically just 7 levels as Artillerist/Artificer and 3 levels as Ancestral Guardian/Barbarian):

Doesnt matter with what Class you start, just keep multiclassing min in mind, you can either use standard point array or roll (<- I did that) and Prioritize Int->Str->Con->Cha->Dex->Wis

Int because he needs that for making explosives Str because there are some genuine interesting feats of strenght Soap manages (and to get into Barbarian mostly) Con because our boy can handle some amount of beating Cha because have you seen him??!?! Became best budies with everyone he meets basically after one hour Dex because he sucks at dodging, particullarly bullets And Wis you dump because the man convinced me he has the Wii theme playing on repeat in his brain when questioning Graves actions instead of actively seeing the betrayal when it happened and thought one adrenaline jab is enough to help that bullet wound (it does not help Soap, you mofo, you should know your MARCH Protocol and Bullet Wound care damnit!)

Reflavoured the spells to mostly be smokebombs and grenades (as good as that works in a high-fantasy setting I am running) other than that we mostly just pick spells that deal fire or thunder damage (guns are loud) plus some utility to help identify magic bullshit and help disarm it. Just be aware we cannot cast while we smack the shit out of people

Unless you REALLY want to make Soap bullet proof and put 11 levels into Barbarian you just focus on Artificer (we're mainly grabbing barbarian for some nice health boost, Rage and Ancestral Protector to be a good battle buddy and make hitting your friends harder.

Artificer we focus for making home made explosives and shivs. For Infusions I'd say go with Repeating shot (either for yourself or to give to the Boo Ghost), Enhanced Weapon if you really want it and otherwise Replicate Magic item (Googles of Night is nice to grab)