Dungeons and Dragons a la One Piece: Introduction and Characters

Hey all! 

It's been a while since I've posted and I'm sorry. Work got crazy and we weren't allowed to stream or post HS videos for a while. Now I'm just waiting for open beta of Heroes of the Storm so I can start streaming that.

In the meantime, I've started a D&D 4e game with a bunch of friends and wanted to share our adventures. The setting of the game is the One Piece universe, so some things have changed. 

First: It's a no magic universe. Anything particular "magical" about the various classes is changed to be more scientific.

Second: The classes got a One Piece wash over to make more sense for the universe. Here are the following Races and how they've translated:

Human - Human

Bugbear - Large Human (like Whitebeard of Doflamingo)

Halfling - Ex-Noble (like Sabo)

Elf - Ex- Noble (like Sabo but for the more offense oriented)
Dragonborn - Fishman (Dragon breath was turned into Uchimizu) 

Thri-kreen - Crustaceous Fishman

Warforged - Cyborg

The classes available were:

Fighter

Barbarian

Rogue
Ranger

Artificer

Monk

Warlord

We also have three Devil Fruit users starting off on the crew. The Devil Fruits are: 

Iki Iki no Mi – Breath Breath Fruit

This fruit gives the user the power of super breath. This allows the user access to feats that standard “enhanced breath powers” would provide (Vacuum Breath, Ice breath, machine gun breath, etc.)

Gemu Gemu no Mi – Sports Sports Fruit

This fruit provides the user with several sports related powers. They gain a massive boost to their Athletics score, become extremely skilled in every sport, can quickly pick up a new sport and become professionally skilled in it in a matter of minutes. They can also gain several sports based powers. They can shoot flaming basketballs out of their hands, throw compressed air like footballs, repel projectiles with an invisible bat, etc.

Toka Toka no Mi, Model: Armadillo - Lizard Lizard Fruit, Model: Armadillo 

This fruit allows the user to transform into an Armadillo Lizard, an Armadillo Lizard hybrid, and atheir base form. 

While in animal or hybrid form, the user may shoot out their spiny plates doing ranged weapon damage, use their claws to do melee weapon damage and gain an assortment of abilities. 

Now, let's meet our characters I'll do each one one at a time to avoid tl;dring it. I would include pictures of the crew, but I can't draw so if anyone out there wants to help with some artwork for my crew's adventures, I would greatly appreciate it.

We have:

The lovely Dr. Anna Montana, the Sport Human. (Named after Joe Montana, obviously).

Anna was raised by her father, a Marine Captain. She looked up to him as the hero of Justice he was perpetrated to be! She thought he was out there every day, saving the world from evil and making it a better place. 

As she got older, she trained and trained to join the Marines when she was old enough. She wasn't very strong, but used her natural intellect to create potions, formulas, and alchemical compounds to help heal, defend, or damage her enemies. She too wanted to make the world a better place, make it safe for everyone. 

Anna shared her dream with her father and his Marine buddies one night when they returned for leave but didn't get the reaction she was expecting. They all started laughing at her as hard as they could. At first she thought it was because she was still young, but then they all started patronizing her. "That's cute for you to think sweetheart." "What's a pretty thing like you going to do as a marine?" "If your husband going to keep the house?" "You should marry a marine, not be one." 

She ran out of the house blind with anger and tears and ran to the local monastery. She hid their for hours trying to think of what to do when a hand, bright of immaculate silver reached out for her. Enraptured with this supposed holy visitor she reached out for it. She was lifted up by a monk with metal hands. 

"Greetings young one. My name is Russel, but you can call me Rusty," the monk said. Anna noticed his hands were indeed silver in color. Mechanical hands that felt warmer than any hand she had held before. They instantly became close friends. Russel is constantly encouraging Anna and never pokes fun at her ambitions.

By his side, she has gone from trailing after marines to getting into fights with them. Out on the sea, close to the action itself Anna can see that these men aren't the symbols of justice they claim to stand for. The way they roughshod over each town and poor citizen they come across. She's lucky her father hasn't caught wind yet. If she stays lucky, he won't know what's what until it bites him in the face. In one particular town she met a Fishman pirate name Karkinos Rey who defended the poor citizens from the injustice of these corrupt public officers. Karkinos, Russel, and Anna ended up fighting many Marines together and the two of them were invited to join his crew. 

Along their adventures, Anna found a Devil Fruit she has seen in an encyclopedia, as fate would have it, she was wrong. After eating it, she soon found herself beating everyone she came across in chess, volleyball, racing. If it was a sport, she was the best at it. After a while she soon developed the ability to conjure ethereal sports equipment that she can use as weapons. She uses this combined with her alchemy to create pretty sticky situations for her enemies (sometimes literally.) And while she doesn't have any formal schooling, she's the ship's doctor. Who needs a fancy degree when she has the miracles of science and her powers.