Way back in 2021, I did a set of Disney Princesses as DnD Characters. Looking back on them now... ooof... both the tool and my own skill have come a long way.
But somebody recently brought up the idea of Disney Princesses as DnD classes on Reddit, which led me to revisit the idea firstly, but also to look up the "official list" of Princesses, which is both different from my original list, but also is incredibly questionable in my opinion.
Because Merida is on the official list, when she's actually a Pixar Princess, Mulan is on the list when she is decidedly NOT a princess, the pair from Frozen who definitely are royalty, and also decidedly Disney's cash cows, are NOT on the list. And Kidagakash "Kida" Nedakh who is most certainly a princess who becomes a queen and is not on the list because Atlantis was considered "a financial disappointment". Even though it made almost as much again on home video as it did in theatres. I will also never not be annoyed about the Kida-erasure.
Which is all besides the point.
I took the official list of 13 Princesses and matched them to the 13 DnD classes. Some of them are a little bit of a stretch, especially with some of the more modern princesses, and some of them definitely suffer from the caveat of having to use each class only once.
I started with Snow White, then Ariel, and was working on Jasmin when I suddenly realised that I didn't need to stick to human like I did last time. And I'll possibly go more into that thought process when I get to Jasmin. It made me revisit the other two though. And then proceed from a much less constricted POV.
And thus, like last time, there was even more of an element of mixing other parts of the movie or villain into the princess in question. Some of it is also a little bit of DnD characters "cosplaying" as the princesses.
Which, of course, meant that Snow White became the dwarfen Neywurl Whitehammer. And actually improved her design, because I wasn't 100% happy with the human version. Like last time though, she's both a Clan Crafter and also a Swarmkeeper Ranger. Because of course I want her swarm to be a random assortment of woodland animals trying to chew your face off. Once again accompanied by the start of Led Zepplin's Immigrant Song. Thank you Shrek the Third and the Damsels of Destruction scene.
And the name comes from the DnD Dwarvish word for "powdery white snow (when falling)", thanks Ed Greenwood.
What I did realise as I took on the first few designs was that there are six Saturdays from now until the 2026 Hero Forge Advent Calendar kicks off. So, for the time being, I stopped after the first six chronological Princesses.
Did the seventh princess sneak into being after I hit a wall on trying to put together the tenth, yes. That's a problem for 2027 me.
Anyway...
An attempt was made at salad this week. It wasn't terrible, but I ended up with the dressing issue I've had before. I also technically made too much rice, and the proportions were slightly off, but the general idea of a taco rice salad is solid and will definitely get a revisit over Summer.
This week's Mini Media Reviews goeth thusly...
A Chinese Ghost Story. The 2011 version and not the 1987 version, which I think is the one that I actually wanted. But that's on me. I didn't realise there were multiple versions. It was fine, but perhaps not as good as the '87 version would have been. It did suffer slightly from the Saturday evening movie problem of me falling slightly asleep.
The Last Kingdom. The final season. Did I spend a large period of time clutching my heart when I wasn't raging against the villains of the season? Yes, yes I did. Did I tear up basically once an episode? Yes, yes I did. Did the ending montage absolutely wreck me? Yes, yes it did. Did I absolutely love this series? You're damn right I did. Which also led us to...
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die. Now, the series itself came to a satisfying conclusion. I also get that they still had some story left to tell, and this did round that off. It did also lack some of the depth of the series though, which makes sense comparing a 110 minute movie vs the 547 minutes of the fifth season. Some of the characters who were very definitely major players in that last season do not show up at all, only one of them even gets name checked, which I also understand.
Friday Night DnD actually happened. And we fought a beholder... which is technically a first for me. I mean, I've had a character who got destroyed by a zombie beholder plus fought a couple of others and definitely been there when a regular one got destroyed... but I feel like this is the first time I've actually fought one. Or at least the most memorable.
Bonus moments... Paladin auras for the win. And also the aura that prevents you from being frightened. Being a reborn and thus unable to be put to sleep by magic. Fuck you eye rays 3 and 7 specifically.
Generally speaking we survived. And dived straight into the final part. Or the final lead up to same.
Anyway...
Not a huge amount to report for today. It does amuse me from time to time the amount that we save on any given week... because the receipt very helpfully lists the amount.
But otherwise, just the usual supermarket stuff.
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