D&D: The Classes of She-Ra Characters
Now that we’ve had a chance to watch the 5th season of She-Ra And The Princesses of Power, let’s try to figure out how we’d play these characters at the D&D table.
As many of you probably know by now, I love thinking of my favorite fictional characters in terms of their D&D playability. It’s a fun exercise that’s half personality test, half fanfiction as I try to really get to the core of who each character is – or at least how I perceive them. At their center, who is each of these characters? What would their classes be in the D&D universe? What about their sub-classes and archetypes?
Adora
Way back in my Warlocks article I listed Adora / She-Ra as a Hexblade Warlock, and I still stand by that. Her sword is of ancient and mysterious origin and gives her certain powers. But there is also a solid argument for Oath of the Ancients Paladin. She fights against darkness to defend all things beautiful and life-giving in the world.
Glimmer
There would be a lot of ways to play Glimmer. I can’t see her as anything but a sorcerer, obviously strong in magic but not spending too many book-hours focusing on her craft, but which origin? Divine Soul I think fits her very well being innate power that comes from a familial connection. But if I were making a character sheet for myself to play based on Glimmer, I would go with Wild Magic. Towards the beginning of the show she had a difficult time controlling her powers, sometimes resulting in unexpected outcomes or issues.
Bow
Bow is a little bit of everything. As a character in a TV it makes him well rounded and fun to watch, but a little more difficult to nail down on a character sheet. He’s multiclass for sure. To start, this is a character who took one, maybe two levels in artificer. Not enough that it’s his primary claim to fame, but his arrows are always unexpected and bespoke for the job at hand. As for his main class, I think an argument can be made for either ranger or fighter depending on how somebody would want to play. Bow’s dexterity, marksmanship, and general survival abilities all scream ranger to me, but his passion and gusto for getting into the fight and defending people makes me think fighter with a knight archetype and an ability boost to ranged weapons.
Entrapta
Good at building stuff and good at making stuff explode, Entrapta is an artificer specializing in artillerist. That said, I think the character would try to somehow gain all of the specialties and then make up her own as well.
Catra
Rogue. She’s sneaky, tricky, and able to hold her own in a fight but just as welling to avoid one. Which archetype was a little more challenging, but in the end I decided to stick with the basics and go Arcane Trickster. One of my friends described her as spending the whole show ‘playing a bad game of chicken to one-up a girl she likes,’ and it’s true. While her character escalated over time to do some pretty bad stuff, at her core she wanted the attention. In a different show, would have been a pretty serious mischief at worst.
Perfuma
Most of the princesses are some variety of sorcerer, which is why I didn’t include most of them. I wrote their names down on the list and then decided that writing “sorcerer…. again,” would be boring. But Perfuma deviates from this as a druid. The departure comes when looking at druidic beast shapes and circles because Perfuma doesn’t fit any of that. She doesn’t change into any animals or even seemingly have a strong connection to any. Circles of spores may be the closest as it most directly incorporates plants, but if I were making this character playable I’d ask the GM if we could homebrew this a little so instead of mushrooms and spores she works with moss and vines.
Double Trouble
This character is a performer first and foremost who knows to put number one first and to leave while they’re ahead. Bard, college of whispers is note-for-note perfect for them as a character who’s not really bad but also not good, full of information about everyone, and would probably prefer to keep their identity secret in most situations.
What did you think of the last season of She-Ra? Which character is your favorite? How would you have classed some of the characters? Let us know in the comments!
Happy Adventuring!
