Let’s Play D&D With Kate Bishop
Pick out your favorite trick arrows and practice your aim, this week we’re playing D&D with Hawkeye‘s Kate Bishop.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, there’s a better-than-good chance you’re caught up on the latest MCU Disney+ show. Hawkeye introduced us to Hailee Steinfeld’s live-action version of Kate Bishop.
The latest addition to the MCU is one of the most fun characters we’ve met in a while. She also happens to be one of the most playable characters in your average Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
How to Play the Archer-Hero
Whether you’re playing Kate, Clint, or DC’s Green Arrow, most of our knee-jerk thought is going to be Ranger. It’s a class that makes a lot of sense for any of them. And with Kate’s special ability to give a nod to Lucky the Pizza Dog, it would have been a no-brainer.
With that in mind, I decided to go in a slightly different direction. I wanted to focus on the idea of trick arrows. Kate also has a lot of other proficiencies. So I opted for the Arcane Archer subclass to Fighter with a minor in Rogue.
Kate is a skilled and competitive archer; she’s also a gymnast and fencer. In the comics, she’s also proficient in staff fighting and hand-to-hand combat.
Few people have been training since childhood to be a superhero– but Kate Bishop certainly has. It makes her a character with a well-rounded collection of skills. Not only is she useful in NYC back-alleys, she’d also be great to have in your average monster-filled dungeon.
Courtesy of Marvel Comics
To represent some of these skills, I made sure Kate had a high dexterity. I also gave her skills and proficiencies in athletics and acrobatics. And as well as as many weapons as possible.
Luckily, her duel classes got us most of the way there. But to really drive her skills home, I gave her the Athlete and Mobile feats.
These give her boosts to Dexterity or Strength and boost her speed a little. This also makes it harder to knock her down for good and lets her attack without provoking an opportunity attack.
Combined with the Rogue’s Sneak Attack? Kate’s almost too graceful to take a mid-attack hit.
But what about Lucky? Just because she doesn’t have the Rangerly access to a companion animal doesn’t mean that Pizza Dog won’t be around.
I’m always a fan of my characters having game-useless pets as set dressing and flavor text. So if your GM will allow it and you want that extra Kate Bishop nod in your character, I added Lucky to the sheet.
Why not? It’s D&D, we’re here to have fun with it!
How would you make Kate Bishop for Dungeons & Dragons? Are you enjoying Hawkeye so far? What show, movie, comics, or games should I make sheets from next time? Let us know in the comments!
Happy Adventuring!
From Hawkeye by Matt Fraction & David Aja, courtesy of Marvel Comics
