MadCap's D&D Builds - Bill Nye (Bill Nye the Science Guy) (5e)

...yeah, no, you read that right. I'm actually doing this. This is probably the most batshit insane nonsense I have ever done on my blog (debatable) and probably my most ridiculous build for D&D to date, so we're doing this. Buckle up, kiddos!

MadCap's D&D Builds - Miraak (Elder Scrolls) (5e)

Let's do another build! It's time to make the insidious sorcerer Miraak! Our first Elder Scrolls build! (Seriously, how is this only the first one?)

MadCap's D&D Builds - The Ghoul (Fallout) (5e)

...what's that? I binged the entirety of Amazon Prime's Fallout series and am now rushing this out in order to capitalize on the pop culture zeitgeist? Well, that's just silly!

...I also happened to really, really enjoy the first season.

MadCap's D&D Builds - Leliana (Dragon Age) (5e)

 

Okay, seriously. It's time for me to get my butt back in gear. I've left everyone hanging down in the mines of Valentine and it's kind of ridiculous how long I've waited to write anything again for the blog. No more of that. It's time to kick it into gear.

And who with? Well, you can read the title of the post.

MadCap's D&D Builds - Axel Palmer (My Bloody Valentine) (5e)

Well, we are finally down to our final build for Horror Month 2023 - Axel Palmer from the classic slasher 1981 slasher film My Bloody Valentine - which I probably need to get around to reviewing for a Horror Month at some point in the near future. Born in the town of Valentine Bluffs... somewhere on the East Coast of Canada?... Axel was the son of a miner who was killed after an accident in the minds had made him resort to cannibalism. Who killed him? The Miner, of course... A warning was left that, if the town were to celebrate Valentine's Day (the day of the accident), then the Miner would return.

As such, the town of Valentine Bluffs hasn't celebrated the holiday that they're named after... until 1981, when the town tried to reinstate the holiday... and the Miner did return as promised, killing again. Axel picked up the ol' pick axe and sought vengeance...

MadCap's D&D Builds - Jigsaw (SAW franchise) (5e)

Another Horror Month and another set of Halloween builds using 5e rules for Dungeons & Dragons. Now we have a new banner for them - since the Tabletop Tales banner is now a distant memory - let's get into the father of the modern slasher film, John Kramer aka the Jigsaw Killer. A man dying of terminal cancer who uses his skills to put those who deserve punishment into lethal situations that they either sacrifice to get themselves out of... or die horribly as you can see in... well, any of the Saw movies.

I'm not a huge fan of Saw, but Epic Apathy (that handsome devil!) dropped this idea into my lap and it was too good to not go with.

MadCap's D&D Builds - Dorian Gray Build (5e)

Here we are! The final Horror Month 2022 build! Oooh, so exciting! We've done a Vampire Champion, a sneaky serial killer who was never caught, and MUMM-RA! THE EVER LIVING!!!! With such a rogues gallery, what could I possibly choose to be the fourth and final build for this year? I mean, after a vampire, a serial killer, and a mummy. What can I possibly do to top all of that?

Ah, what the heck! Let's put Dorian Gray to pen & paper.

I mean, it's not like you didn't see the title of this post or the picture above or anything...

MadCap's D&D Builds - Mumm-Ra Build (Thundercats) (5e)

"ANCIENT SPIRITS OF EVIL, TRANSFORM THIS DECAYED FORM TO MUMM-RA! THE EVER-LIVING!!!!"

...hehe.

Oh, bite me! It's fun! Besides, we haven't covered a Mummy yet.

MadCap's D&D Builds - Jack the Ripper Build (From Hell) (5e)

From one Londoner to another... one of the most famous serial killers the world over in that he was never caught. I'm speaking, of course, of Jack the Ripper. Who was he? Or was he even a he? Scholars debate these very questions and more 'til this very night and, while many theories have been proposed over the years since the grisly murders, the killer was never caught and enough time has passed that we will very likely never get a real answer.

So, naturally, I'm going to build him in D&D!

...what? It's in the title. I was probably going to mention it.

MadCap's D&D Builds - Spike Build (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) (5e)

Building. A. D&D. Character.

...bitch.

Okay, so that's technically six words, but bite me. And now, you can! Last year, we ended Horror Month with a Champion, so it's only fitting that we start off this year's Horror Month with one! It's Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

MadCap's D&D Builds - Owen Grady Build (Jurassic World) (5e)

So, writing this out now just after having seen Jurassic World: Dominion, I'm kind of irritated with myself for not thinking of this sooner. This may be the no-brainer-est of all no-brainer character builds that I've ever done thus far.

Burt Macklin, Raptor Trainer!

MadCap's D&D Builds - Dean Winchester Build (Supernatural) (5e)

And now, we have our final build of Horror Month 2021. Since we've spent the month dealing with monsters, I think it's only fitting that we bring in a monster hunter: namely Dean Winchester from the TV series Supernatural. Y'know, that series I've been reviewing for a while. You've probably heard of it.

Dean's a wise-cracking, ass kicking, good ol' boy in need of some major therapy. Life may get him down and even kill him on...many, many occasions, actually. . .but with Sam at his side and himself behind the wheel of his beloved '67 Impala, Dean is always ready to crank up the mullet rock and apply a boot to the ass of every demon on Earth and in Hell and more than a few other things, too.

Ready? Let's kick it in the ass!

MadCap's D&D Builds - Michael Myers Build (Halloween) (5e)

Another October Thursday, another October D&D build. I've seen a lot of Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger builds, but you know what I haven't seen a lot of? Michael Myers builds, and that's a shame. After all, Halloween is what popularized the slasher film genre and allowed either one of those two to exist, and yet for some reason Michael is always living in their shadow...which is where he likes to lurk and occasionally stab somebody from. 

Michael Myers was first brought to us in Halloween (1978) by filmmakers John Carpenter and Debra Hill as a boy who murdered his sister Judith at the age of six, spent fifteen years in Smith's Grove Sanitarium, and he's made his way through ten movies (as of this post) and two abominations that for some reason didn't get a legal ban on Rob Zombie ever making movies again since. So, today, we're going to be building a better slasher with applied D&D! So here we go!

MadCap's D&D Builds - Dr. Frankenstein Build (5e)

It's alive! It's alive! . . .or so I'm told, anyway. For this week, we have Victor Frankenstein - the original doctor rather than the monster he created. . .which is also Frankenstein for those that want to be pedantic about it. Before Herbert West, before Maggie Walsh, before freaking Doctor Doom...there was Victor Frankenstein.

Victor Frankenstein was a role first played by Augustus Phillips in the silent 1910 film produced by Thomas Edison of all people. Most people tend to know him with the face of Colin Clive (pictured above) as Henry Frankenstein from the 1931 film adaptation of the Classic Universal Monsters vein. He is a scientist who perverted the very essence of life in order to create life all his own and now he knows what it's like to be God. . .depending on the adaptation you're going with. In the novel, he's a tragic figure whose creation causes him to lose his friends, family, and his mind. In most of the movies...well, he's the reason why we have the Mad Scientist stereotype.

So let's have a look at what we need to make Victor Frankenstein.

MadCap's D&D Builds - The Creature From The Black Lagoon Build (Universal Classic Monsters) (5e)

Horror Month 2021 has finally come! Get your dice and get ready to roll, because it's time to get spoopy! As is fitting with our tradition at this point, we're going to make a character build based off of a fictional character and work them all the way up to Level 20! This month, we've got some horror builds! Let's see  what we can make of it starting with...

Madcap's Table Top Tales - "Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters for D&D" aka "That Time I Backed A Kickstarter"

Happy New Year, people of the world! Believe it or not, you didn't have to wait two years for the new edition of Table Top Tales! I know, I know, I am nothing if not a generous overlord over all (of the backwoods internet blog) that I survey! Today, much as I did back in the tail end of 2020 (and thank God we're out of that friggin' year!), I want to do a product review - this one I actually paid money for!

Willingly!

Ah, the joys of Kickstarter!