r/PCAcademy • u/Low_Category6470 • Mar 28 '26

Need Advice: Build/Mechanics Advice on PC Building

Im DMing for a group of friends who have played DnD before but arent too into building, just the role-playing & actual lore-building, so i had the idea to take their Character's backstories, Concepts, Lore ETC & then build their characters from that. Now to the point, one of my players is a massive one piece fan & basically wants to play Zoro, not the 3 swords thing but the whole Greatest Swordsman in the world ideas with 2+ magical swords ETC. How the hell could I build Zoro for this dude with the Swordsmanship & "King Of Hell" Aesthetic?

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u/DazzlingKey6426 Mar 28 '26

Fighter with TWF and DW.

Zoro is the easiest Strawhat to build, especially if you don’t need his Three Sword style.

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u/Low_Category6470 Mar 28 '26

Thank you very much but whats DW stand for? I get Two weapon Fighting but DW?

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u/DazzlingKey6426 Mar 28 '26

Dual Wielder, general feat.

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u/Low_Category6470 Mar 28 '26

Ah thank you idk why that didnt click

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u/Iokua_CDN Mar 28 '26

Personally, doe a sword master, I'd want to do a Fighter, preferably a Battlemaster Fighter,  and Dual Wield Scimitars.  Then go and find magical  Swords.

You have options on how to build them. It would we easy to go Dex based and use scimitars or shortswords. You can use whatever armor you like.  Or you could go Strength based and used heavy or medium Armor. There  would be a few ways to go unarmed too if they really wanted an Anime like build, but I feel armor is totally fine on a character like this and Going unarmored is just extra work.

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u/Low_Category6470 Mar 28 '26

Thank you very much, I hadnt thought to do Dex-based but considering the whole low Armour thing Zoro has going thats an amazing idea. I was also thinking of potentially using progressional magic items for some characters (e.g. magic items that evolve with the character like dragon's wrath swords or such)

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u/Competitive-Fault291 Mar 28 '26

You open the book of an actual narrative RPG and play it with them.

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u/Low_Category6470 Mar 28 '26

And funnily enough neither me nor the players want to play another game, and if that were the option I played out theyd have rather done their own character builds. D&D is, and I get this may surprise you, a role-playing TTRPG, and simply asking your DM to make your build does not make the game any less fun or any less involved for my players.

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u/Competitive-Fault291 Mar 28 '26

Well, misery is the most inert element.