Jane Eyre: When making Jane Erye into a Dnd character a lot of things struck me by surprise. The first thing was when I made her race a human (obviously) I wanted to change things up and make her into a variant human. The reason was the description for it was: Humans who are more motivated by their own desires, which I thought fit perfectly for Jane because throughout the book she is constantly motivated to find her own ideal of freedom from people in her life like Ms. Reed or even Mr. Rochester. For her class, I did sorcerer because I didn’t really know what else would fit her. Sorcerers were the closest because they used their abilities from their bloodline which I thought kinda fit with how Jane connects back with her family that passed away and her brother who tried to reach out to her John Reed. Another interesting thing I did was when choosing other languages for her to speak I learned that Jane is also fluent in French, (Unfortunately french was not a language option) so I decided to choose Elvish instead because I thought that was the closest thing to it. I also had more options to learn other languages and I decided to do goblin because she probably thinks of Ms. Reed as a goblin anyway and under common. After all, the description of that language was “a trading race spoken by many intelligent races in the Underdark” which I thought fit Jane quite well considering she is very intelligent herself. For her actual physical description, I put in what we find out in the novel, she has hazel hair green eyes, and pale white skin. For her religion, I put in Chrisitan. For her personality traits, I put “I’m used to helping out those who aren’t as smart as I am, and I potentially explain everything and everything to others.” My obvious reason for this is that not only is Jane educated but she helps others in need whether it be the other students in her school, or later in the novel where she tutors other kids. For mostly everything else I put in what her ideal choices would be.
Mr Rochester: For Mr. Rochester, I decided to go with the same thing as Jane Erye and go as a variant human. The reason why is that he makes his own decisions throughout the story and has a very difficult time communicating with other characters in the story like Jane for example. He also seems like someone who has another secret he hasn’t told to anyone else in the story which is another reason why I choose a variant human for a race. For language, I actually had a hard time choosing this but I decided to go with Goblin. The reason is because of how terrible he is at communicating what he thinks and/or feels with Jane. Along with that the way he goes around with other women at parties and especially dresses up as a gypsy in the house gave me a very goblin feel and that I didn’t really know what other language would work for him. The ability score I decided to give him was wisdom because he is a bit older and definitely has more experience in life and also when things happen throughout the story he says these vague things. For example in chapter 20 when Mr. Mason gets injured he goes and tells Jane who is helping Mr. Mason with his wound ““I shall have to leave you in this room with this gentleman, for an hour, or perhaps two hours: you will sponge the blood as I do when it returns: if he feels faint, you will put the glass of water on that stand to his lips, and your salts to his nose. You will not speak to him on any pretext—and—Richard, it will be at the peril of your life if you speak to her: open your lips—agitate yourself—and I’ll not answer for the consequences.”(chp 20.) It seems in this context he always seems to have a plan which was the main reason I gave him a wisdom boost. The next skill boost I gave him was dexterity because of how often Mr. Rochester moves around the place. One minute he’s next to Jane and the next minute he’s over talking to a bunch of other women and doing something completely different I thought it would be funny to give him a dexterity boost for this reason. Next, I gave him a boost in deception, the reason being that the character Mr. Rochester himself always seems to be deceiving Jane. Like the previous example, I gave before he leaves Jane with Mr. Mason while he is wounded and goes off to do something we don’t have any clue about. Mr. Rochester is a master deceiver in the novel. Next up for class, I struggled with this for a bit because I believe that Mr. Rochester doesn’t exactly fit into any of the character classes for dnd. However, I decided to go with Rouge because I think that fits into his complexity and his ability to keep his own secrets and be decrepit with what he tells others about himself and what he decides not to others about himself. For Mr. Rochester’s proficiencies I went with stealth and perception. These two skills fit right into the reason why I choose Rouge for Mr. Rochester It fits right with his character in the story and goes with his actions that he does as well. For background, I decided to go with criminal/spy because I felt as if Mr. Rochester had some evil or bad thing in his past that he hasn’t told us yet so for my theory at least that’s why I went with criminal/spy for his background. For personality traits I choose the line “I am always calm, no matter what the situation. I never raise my voice or let my emotions control me.” I chose this because I think it’s what Mr. Rochester’s personality is described in one line he always seems very calm and no matter the situation seems very relaxed. The only thing that I would say to disagree to that would be his communicated between Jane. Lastly for physical description, I took out how he is described in the book, being a white male with black hair and being 37 years old.
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Reflection: During this whole creative project I struggled at first because when I first thought about this it seemed like a bit of a challenge to try and fit characters from an autobiography like Jane Eyre into characters from a game like DnD. However halfway through I found myself having a really good time, most of the information I got things from came straight of out the text itself, I think making these people into characters from Dnd is really interesting because it takes your personal twist on the character and turning them into more of a character that you really think they are like. For example, doing Mr. Rochester was enjoyable because I got to go on my personal theories on what he’s hiding from the characters and put that into things like his personality and backstory. I think I also enjoyed this a lot more because we haven’t finished the story yet. It leaves a little bit of room for me to try and fill in the blank lines of things we don’t know yet about characters like Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester. I’m looking forward to finishing the novel and seeing if the things I added for these characters line up with the continuation of the story.
Sprockets and Springes 