#dnd hamlet

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Thanks for the positive feedback on the D&D Hamlet comic, guys! When I posted it, I didn’t expect other people would like it as much as I did! :,D Just recently, I got the opportunity to play as him in a one-shot. Just a couple things about him:

The stats above are standard array, so it’s not too arbitrary. Hamlet is notoriously complex and subject to interpretation, so others might handle his ability scores differently.

Part of me wants to make his CON higher considering how long he lasted in Act V after getting stabbed with a poisoned sword.

Hamlet being DEX-based actually works pretty well, since he can use rapiers and daggers.

The spells he knows include Protection from Evil and Good, Sleep, Protection from Poison, and Zone of Truth.

He multiclassed in wizard (at least, in the one-shot) partially because I didn’t want to waste his INT stat. He was a scholar, after all.

Okay, to be honest, I didn't once consider Hamlet as a paladin, but the more I thought about it the more it got interesting.

Hamlet is hardly as "warlike" as his father. The armor he inherits fits awkwardly or is too heavy for him to wear comfortably. Making an effective paladin in D&D usually means prioritizing the strength ability score over intelligence, yet the latter is one of Hamlet's most notable characteristics; he uses his wit as his primary weapon.

His being a paladin does align, however, with his tendency to be moral (even though he sometimes absolutely isn’t, walking mass of contradictions that he is). His line "heaven hath pleased it so/ to punish me with this and this with me,/ that I must be their scourge and minister" makes the class work, in a way.