March 17, 2025
Fantasy Fight Club: D&D Version!
In this edition of The Quill, we are seeing a big fight happening between two iconic speedsters, The Road Runner from Looney Tunes and The Flash. These characters have extreme feats of agility in their original media, but how would you translate that into a playable Dungeons and Dragons character? Sit down, grab your dice, and pull up a character sheet, because you might just have your next joke character with today’s edition of Fight Club: D&D Version!
Character Name: The Road Runner
If you are trying to make a Road Runner-inspired chara
cter, you’ll have to take some liberties from the typical D&D rules. For your character’s race, you may want to pick a bird-like race like Aarakocra (see photo above), which is a handy choice — especially since you naturally get +2 for dexterity! Speaking of dexterity, that’s the stat you’ll want to dump all your points into. Whether you’re playing with point buy or rolling for stats, you’ll want to make sure to pick the highest possible stats for dexterity. Typically, a playable D&D character maxes out their stats at 20 points, but that won’t be nearly enough to portray the amount of speed your Road Runner has. You’ll want to get the very rare item, the Manual of Quickness of Action to boost your dexterity all the way to 22!
Besides stats, however, there are a few complications when playing a character based on the Road Runner. You can only speak in “beep beeps!” meaning that you are not allowed to speak any language. This creates a few complications without homebrew intervention, as that means you aren’t allowed to play any spell-casting class. At least you’ll be the most dangerous and speediest rogue this world has ever seen!
The Flash is a legendary speedster who warps the very fabric of reality with how fast he moves — so how do we put that into a D&D character? Well, first, you’d want to pick the human race, which gives you a +1 stat increase in your ability scores, as well as options for feats like Charger. The Charger feat lets you make a melee attack during the dash action, which will represent the lightning-quick attacks The Flash is able to make. Similar to the Road Runner, you’ll want to focus heavily on your dexterity stat and related skills. Just having high dexterity doesn’t quite exemplify being The Flash, though, which is why you’ll want to pick a sensible class. For The Flash, you might want to go with a class that has access to electricity-based spells, or you might want to go with Monk (see photo above) for the ability to deliver rapid punches. You’ll also want to continue picking out feats that increase mobility, like Mobile, which lets you dash on tough terrain as well as increasing your speed. With all this in mind, you’ll be able to create a character who can run and punch all over the place!