Let’s Play D&D With Wednesday Addams Over a Box of Girl Scout Cookies
This week we’re creepy, cooky, and altogether spooky as we figure out how to play D&D with Wednesday Addams.
I have loved the Addams Family forever. The spooky, weird, but overall loving family really spoke to me. Especially when I was sent home early from camp for being a “cold prickly” instead of a “warm fuzzy” and had my parents called mid-school-year because I’d spend recess reading instead of playing with the other kids. Sometimes your family gets you but the other kids don’t.
Since then I’ve found my own collection of weirdos but my love for the Addamses has stuck around. Suffice it to say, I’m very excited about the upcoming Wednesday show. We don’t have an exact date yet, but we know it’s coming soon and Autumn is the perfect slightly spooky time for a Wednesday release. But until then, we can invite everybody’s creepy and cooky family to hang out. We’re playing D&D with…
Wednesday Addams
The Addamses in general aren’t a very combative family. Gomez is of curse swashbucklingly roguish and an experienced fencer. But for the most part, they are shockingly normal. Sure the stuff they say is weird and the kids try to kill each other and there’s a literal crawling hand wandering the house. But they’re not exactly your average adventuring party. So I had to get a little creative with Wednesday for a D&D setting.
I decided the best way to go about her would be to make her something akin to a witch. But “witch” isn’t really a class in D&D so instead, I decided to borrow a page from Emily Axford’s book when she made Fia for NADDPOD and cobbled together a witchy character from existing classes. In Fia’s case, she’s a Cleric-Wizard mix. And while Cleric could work for Wednesday I didn’t think Wizard would so we did a little digging to find the perfect mix.
In the end, I landed on Grave Domain Cleric and College of Whispers Bard for that spooky pseudo-mean-girl teenage witch character. I did consider Necromancy Wizard for a little while, but Wednesday isn’t really necromancing. She’s not raising the dead. She’s more interested in making more of them than animating any. But whispers. Wednesday is good and collecting knowledge and using it later. And while it’s always hilarious for the audience, it’s not usually ideal for whoever has wronged her most recently.
As for equipment, Wednesday is one of the few mostly non-combative characters we actually see with weapons. The promotional material for the upcoming show shows her with a knife – so I gave her a dagger – and I know one of the 90s films had her shooting at Pugsley with a crossbow. Y’know, normal sibling stuff.
I almost gave her a noble background, but I decided on charlatan instead. Backgrounds don’t matter too much but they can give you some extra goodies sometimes. And charlatan had the same stuff I’d want as noble plus bottles of colored liquid… Which is on brand for Wednesday and just sort of funny.
As a Bard, she gets an instrument, and the posters show her with a cello. And her spells are focused mostly on making other people feel bad and talking to dead things. She may not be a full-blown necromancer, but she’s a little spooky. She’s gonna try to talk to dead things.
The only thing that’s sadly missing from this sheet is that I wanted Wednesday to have a crawling hand familiar so Thing could be around. But giving her another class just for the familiar was out of the question. Assume Thing is their own character, around and being handy.
How would you play Wednesday in D&D? Are you looking forward to the upcoming series? Which version of The Addams family is your favorite? Let us know in the comments!
Happy Adventuring!
