If you would rather watch an in-depth video about the topic, feel free to watch the video above. The Character Sheet for this character is provided in the description of the video, if you would like to use it.
Because I love Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and think that the Seven Sins are portrayed incredibly, I did the natural thing and combined my love of this show and its characters with my love of Dungeons & Dragons. In doing so, I created a Playable Character Sheet for King Bradley. Or, you might know him as Wrath.
I chose the Default Ability Scores, as given by the Player’s Handbook, prioritising Strength, Constitution, and Dexterity. With 15 in Strength, 14 in Constitution, 13 in Dexterity, 12 in Charisma, 10 in Intelligence, and 8 in Wisdom, I went on to choose a Race.
While it is true that Bradley is a Homunculus, he was born as a Human. Furthermore, he was raised as a Human and injected with a single Philosopher’s Stone, rendering him incapable of healing or of stopping himself from ageing- whilst also giving him his ‘Ultimate Eye’. Therefore, I chose Human as his Race.
All of our Ability Scores increased by one. The Race, as it always does, also determined our size, speed, and spoken languages.
Then came the matter of the Background. The obvious choice was… the right one: Bradley would have the ‘Noble’ Background. He was the Fuhrer, Leader of Amestris. Even if we were to disregard his political and military influence, we would still be faced with the reality that he was one of the Seven Deadly Sins, granted incredible power and purpose that elevated him above others.
We ignored the Equipment the Background would have provided us with, as we were going to roll the dice later. We got a Proficiency in ‘History’ and ‘Persuasion’, learned another Language, gained some Proficiency with a ‘Dice Set’ and earned the ‘Position of Privilege’ Feature. Who else would be more privileged than the leader of a country? Of course, peasants would do their best to appease him.
Lastly, there was the matter of which Class(es) would create the most accurate and playable King Bradley. As our perception of Wrath was as a combination of two Classes, we decided to use the Multiclassing Rules in the Player’s Handbook. We went for Barbarian and Fighter- with 3 and 17 Levels respectively.
We started off as a Barbarian, explaining the Philosopher Stone that lived inside Bradley, giving him the Strength he seems to possess in the anime. Rage, Frenzy, Reckless Attack, and Path of the Berserker would all explain Bradley’s abilities as a Homunculus better than any other class could.
The Fighter Class made it possible for us to wield Two Long-swords at once, as soon as we hit Level 4 as a Fighter (Level 5 Overall). We had initially chosen the “Two Weapon Fighting” Style, but could only use one of the Two Long-swords during our Turn, as the weapons were not ‘light’. Yet, we traded our first Ability Score Improvement Feature for the ‘Dual Wielder’ Feat and we could now use our off-hand Long-sword. Moreover, we gained 1 Armour Class. Whilst levelling up, we used most Ability Score Improvement Features, trading one for the ‘Alert’ Feat, as to mimic Bradley’s ‘Ultimate Eye’, making sure we are never surprised.
Between the two uses of the ‘Action Surge’ available to us, as well as our Extra Attack counting as 2 Attacks aside from the Initial Attack, adding onto the Attack dealt by the off-hand weapon and the Frenzied Wrath, we conservatively managed to strike our opponent 11 times in One Turn.
If that is not Wrath, I do not know what is.
If you want to download the King Bradley Character Sheet, or learn more about the character, the links are in the description of the linked video.
Let me know what you think of this character build. Is there anything you would change? If there are any other fictional characters you would like to see transformed into a D&D Character Sheet, let me know in the comments below!
