There's a kind of built in Patron for the Warlock multi-class: Rao, the Sun God of Krypton. He's the God of a dead world (as well as its sun itself), and there's a canonical darkness and arguable evil to his patronage of Krypton. In the DC graphic novel "Sandman: Endless Nights" there is a convocation portrayed that occurs early in the history of the DC universe. Many powerful beings attend, including all seven of the Endless except for Destiny (Death, Desire, Destruction, Dream, Delight (who later becomes Delirium), and Despair). Our sun, Sol, is personified as a young teenager carrying drinks (not old enough to attend the actual debates about how the universe should develop) and Rao is a solemn, older giant of a personification. Despair is seen sitting with Rao and concluding a discussion about her artistic masterpiece she suggests he help create: allowing sentient life to develop on his sole, and inherently geologically unstable, planet. He had intended to leave it barren because any life it hosted would be doomed to destruction when it exploded. She convinced him it would be a beautiful tragedy if sentient life did develop and face its doom with all the valor, striving, futility, etc. that would entail. "It would only be truly perfect," she concluded, "if one survives, to remember and despair." In other words, the cosmic entity Despair convinced the Kryptonians' patron God to create them purely in order for the sole survivor to be a powerful living testimony to herself (Despair) with his enduring grief. She failed completely, since he's a symbol of hope, but even if Rao wasn't evil before, agreeing to Despair's plan was certainly a horribly evil act in itself. Rao would make both a good distant celestial ancestor (informing the Aasimar element of the build) and a good Dark Patron as a fallen, evil God of a dead world once full of life that he created in order to have them despair at the fate he'd doomed them to suffer. And Superman does canonically invoke him fairly often.

It was definitely a challenge to get all of Superman's abilities, while still staying true to the character, but I think we managed to pull it off! Although I definitely had to go a different route than I expected...

This build was unexpected, but a surprisingly accurate Superman! Good work

This is full of great ideas. Bards make great Daily Planet reporters; making a deal with a fiend to not destroy the world is very creative; and you did a pretty good job of developing Superman’s powers slowly, Smallville style - it’s a game about heroes growing from nobodies to god-tier warriors, after all. Nicely done

Lmao I definitely was not expecting bard for Superman. But honestly the inspiration part is really convincing. As strong and powerful as he is, his greatest impact is that he inspires everyone to be better.

Metro Man, a character inspired by Superman, is a musician so bard fits

I love the concept of Superman making a deal with Darkseid to protect the world. It’s not totally fitting to get his powers from it but I love the reasoning for it so much that I don’t mind much. Didn’t expect Bard either but it also makes so much sense and works well. Expected a Fighter/Sorcerer build. Pleasantly surprised with the unique take.

I'd switch out fiend for celestial, darkseid isn't superman's patron, his father is or atleast the a.i in the fortress of solitude is, and since he's a kryptonian too that would be celestial with his healing abiliteas reflavoured as him inspiring people, which can also be done if you take healing spells.

Superman is super smart and super wise. It just happens that most of his friends are super super smart. Superman would have to have 16 or higher on all stats.

Brilliant! i doubt i'd ever think of this combo build in a million years... Well done!

You can build almost anything from the bard class, adding on a fiend warlock was not something I saw coming. Unique build for an iconic superhero. Well done.

I'm interested in seeing Superman as a monk build

I think this was a good build for the concept, but Superman simply doesn't lend itself to a character build. In DnD terms, he's probably more like a demigod.

I'd love to see how this character interacts with your Batman build. If they synergize well, etc.

I've been watching your content for a while now and I'm always super intrigued by these builds. You do a phenomenal job! That being said, I've never played D&D. Friends and I have wanted to play but it's something that we aren't knowledgeable about in the slightest and wouldn't even know where to start. It doesn't hinder me from checking out all your content though haha. Please keep up the amazing work!

Very creative going the valor bard route. Who's next? Spider-Man or Wolverine? Lol

Interesting video! I also love how you used footage from a whole host of different Superman movies/shows, that I know and love. Talkville is also dope 😁

It's not what I would do, especially the Fiend pact, but it was very creative. I'm going to see if I can tweek it a bit more.

This hilarious 😂 I love it. New to the channel. About to start a binge on these character builds.

This about the exact opposite of how I built Superman, but I really enjoy the creative take on him. I made him a Brute Fighter (or Champion if you don't like UA) multiclassed with Divine Soul Sorcerer. Missed out on the X-ray vision, but his martial abilities are slightly better. Your build definitely got his variety down and I think that's important.

I'd love to see you build Dr. Fate from DC comics

It occurs to me, playing with the flavor a little, you could have Darkside as a patron without making a deal. It stretches things, but this build is all about stretching things. In Deadlands, all magic derives from evil but God cleans it up for his worshipers. Who's to say your powers, clear from bard levels don't come from Darkside but the Kryptonian god Rao cleans up the icky aspects. That would give the GM a perfect excuse to use Darkside as a big bad.

I came up with an entire character biography based on an aasimar Superman like character, one who is son of Lathander “Isaac the DawnBringer” sired by a human women by the name of Evelyn, he would possess the ability to absorb solar radiation and fly with no wings, he’d have flowing shoulder length white hair and piercing crystalline eyes reflecting the stars of the cosmos.

Awesome build!

At Level 3.... "Why can't you just punch it?" "BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE UNARMED FIGHTING!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Would like to see master roshi from dragon ball especially how to tackle techniques such as the mafuba

i like the unique perspective on it, but i just don't think one would Feel like superman when playing this build. it's cool to have a new perspective though!

Thank you for this video

You could have just done human variant and way of the dragon monk that lets you fly and breathe elemental breathing in a cone or line witch could be laser eyes and ice breath

I went with the Solar Avatar and human kryptonian as race

3:07 Batman casually roasting Superman 💀

My wife would love this

What would the Dnd comparison to Darkseid be? Bane, the Strife Empteror?

an interesting and unique take on the character

Awesome! I've recently done one and thought I'd share. I built mine as a Githzerai (cosmic race destroyed by a civil war) Bear Barbarian 6 / Sun Soul Monk 4 / Stars Druid 10. Guardian of Nature or Aura of Vitality are the main concentration spells. Feats are Resilient WIS, Fighting Initiate: Unarmed, and Crusher. The 4th ASI is STR giving me 20/14/14/8/14/8. I took the Wildspacer background for the Tough Feat, giving him 197 HP at level 20 with averages. He can't fly very fast (Dragon form at Druid 10), but he can get those jumps in with Jump and Step of the Wind if needed (also hover jumping, maybe? he's got a 50 ft. speed and it'd suck to be stuck at 20 while flying). The Barb allowed me to do the Smallville feel where he's so strong and mad that he can't do anything because he might hurt someone. Sun Soul is for heat vision. Being a farm boy, Druid is an obvious choice, especially when he finds that crystal Star Map left in his pod. Druid covers the rest of the powers. With arguably the best list for spell utility and a daily prepared caster at that, it really makes for quite the potent combo of spells to use in or out of concentration.

um, Friends? because he's "super friendly"? You know that's not what friends does, right? Friends is a mind-affecting spell that brute forces people into hearing your words in the best possible way (advantage on Cha checks) but then when it fades, it swings the pendulum the other way and they hate you. "When the spell ends the creature realizes that you used magic to influence its mood and becomes hostile toward you. A creature prone to violence might attack you." That's not Clark. Blade Ward or Mending or even Prestidigitation might be better choices. (Mending could be heat vision welding)

Superman doesn't gain his power from performance or some deal, he just has his powers due to being an alien Sorcerer also has much better spells than bard such as firebolt and fly

You should build the doom slayer

I made the X-Men's Cyclops with Bard. Started lock for eldritch blast and some Invocations, then went bard.

INteresting

I'd like to see how you would do a Kenshin Himura or a Wolverine from X-Men.

ZOMG!!!! you picked Aasimar and can FLY @ level 0ne....WAAYYYYY! OVERPOWERED man. BAHHH and resistances!!!! Makes the whole extra 2 health less MASSIVE! wouldn't you say? Just saying you get 8 whopping health by level 4 where one could pick it up regularly..cept at level 4 pick up player gets to double their max health amount. by the by this character looks fun, well done.

Little late to the party here, but since you did Superman, I think it would be interesting to see if could do the Magic version of Superman - Captain Marvel/ Shazam. Do you think he would be built any differently or would they be the same, just flavor and background differences?

Day 1 of me asking for a Leon S Kennedy build from Resident Evil

Amazing videos And when is Roronoa Zoro from One Piece

Day 1 asking for Alucard from hellsing ultimate

I'd like to see John Constantine from CD

Can you do Sonic next? This channel is so great!

Tbh just make this character build but don't even include the extra abilities at first. Just go full Golden Age on his power set at the start of his campaign.

How different would the smallville version be. A lex Luther or zod based from the series is cool

Momoshiki Otsutsuki D&D build please!!!

Can we have a Ranma Saotome build?

Is it possible to make a barb who can use mage hand to hold more weapons

Could you please make a video geared for actual DnDBeyond use? Because some of the spells you say to grab at lower levels are either available at much higher levels or aren't available at all. Like Slow nd Tenser's Transformation. It's confusing for new players like me.

make Tristan from King Arthur 2004

Other spider

what race would be the smallvill

Day 1 asking for Shinra Kusekabe And day 1 asking for spiderman I'm a new sub to your channel and I really love your content, DnD Builds^^

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Could you do Ezio form assassins creed

Do cyclops from the xmen please

Any chance you can do Megaman?

Cable Please

Could you do Gojo Satouri from Jujutsu Kaisen???

Thematically I don't think Superman an be built as a playable character. Period. All of Superman's abilities are genetic; it's essentially derived from creature/monster hit die and he's at best an NPC and at worst an intelligent/sentient monster. His class levels are virtually non-existent and, at least back in 3.5, commoner or other NPC class levels were the only ones that ended up fitting the character.

Well...Darkside?

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You should just have made He-man, there is nothing in dungeons and dragons that comes even close to Superman. Not even close, not even the gods themselves are at his level.

How to play Superman; Be the DM. Write yourself unlimited abilities. Win every time.