D&D 5E Meet Robin Hood, Outlaw of Sherwood Forest

Robin Hood, master bowman and infamous outlaw! Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters, coming soon to Kickstarter, compiles Mike Myler's fantastic column here on EN World, with brand new art in a gorgeous full-colour book. Sign up now to be notified when the Kickstarter launches! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/enworld/mythological-figures-and-maleficent-monsters

Robin Hood, master bowman and infamous outlaw! Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters, coming soon to Kickstarter, compiles Mike Myler's fantastic column here on EN World, with brand new art in a gorgeous full-colour book. Sign up now to be notified when the Kickstarter launches!

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Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters for D&D

A beautiful D&D hardcover tome of legendary figures from Achilles to Robin Hood, Thor to Dracula, King Arthur to Baba Yaga!
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paladinn

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Curious.. which rendition of Sharpshooter did you use for this?

I'm a little surprised that you didn't go with a Ranger build for Robin Hood. If there's one historical character that screams "Ranger", it's Robin Hood! Even as a fighter, I notice he doesn't have the Archery fighting style; or did I miss something?

You describe Robin as the Earl of Huntingdon. I know there are several versions of his background; the most popular is that he was Robin of Locksley. I love the old Robin of Sherwood show. Now I have Clannad in my head:)
 

Ruin Explorer

Ruin Explorer

Legend
I feel like given he has 12 total levels, we could have gone with 20 DEX, I mean come on, any PC archer would and now they'll be bagging on Robin Hood for not being as agile/precise as they are.

Also, the one thing he is missing there is an ability to really do stupid stuff with arrows, like particularly shoot other arrows in flight. Seems solid otherwise.
 

GreyLord

GreyLord

Legend
paladinn said:
Curious.. which rendition of Sharpshooter did you use for this?

I'm a little surprised that you didn't go with a Ranger build for Robin Hood. If there's one historical character that screams "Ranger", it's Robin Hood! Even as a fighter, I notice he doesn't have the Archery fighting style; or did I miss something?

You describe Robin as the Earl of Huntingdon. I know there are several versions of his background; the most popular is that he was Robin of Locksley. I love the old Robin of Sherwood show. Now I have Clannad in my head:)
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Robin Hood couldn't multiclass both Ranger and Rogue with his current ability scores there.

Ruin Explorer said:
I feel like given he has 12 total levels, we could have gone with 20 DEX, I mean come on, any PC archer would and now they'll be bagging on Robin Hood for not being as agile/precise as they are.

Also, the one thing he is missing there is an ability to really do stupid stuff with arrows, like particularly shoot other arrows in flight. Seems solid otherwise.
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That's a great question. Why doesn't Robin have an 20 DEX at level 12? Or were his other scores that low that he had to bring them up.
 

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ScuroNotte

Explorer
paladinn said:
Curious.. which rendition of Sharpshooter did you use for this?

I'm a little surprised that you didn't go with a Ranger build for Robin Hood. If there's one historical character that screams "Ranger", it's Robin Hood! Even as a fighter, I notice he doesn't have the Archery fighting style; or did I miss something?

You describe Robin as the Earl of Huntingdon. I know there are several versions of his background; the most popular is that he was Robin of Locksley. I love the old Robin of Sherwood show. Now I have Clannad in my head:)
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Because no character wants to be a Ranger as written. Also, Robin Hood has no magical abilities.
 



Horwath

Horwath

Legend
Ruin Explorer said:
I feel like given he has 12 total levels, we could have gone with 20 DEX, I mean come on, any PC archer would and now they'll be bagging on Robin Hood for not being as agile/precise as they are.

Also, the one thing he is missing there is an ability to really do stupid stuff with arrows, like particularly shoot other arrows in flight. Seems solid otherwise.
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that's what you get for having feats and ability increases in the same resource pool.

On the more serious note: I do not find 18 dex "weak" on a human.

maybe stats should be limited to 18...
 

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