Skills History +9, Insight +9, Perception +9, Persuasion +11, Stealth +11 thieves’ toolsīackground: Noble. Maid Marian Medium humanoid (human), neutral good ranger 1/rogue (swashbuckler) 11Īrmor Class 16 (studded leather, defensive fighting style) Let’s do the numbers! The DMG cruised in at an even 6 and the Blog of Holding 6.6, putting her solidly at CR 6. She is after all often a crux for fooling society’s elite in the highwayman’s many varied stories, so in addition to some attention to social skills she’s got Diplomat too. Past that since she’s able to throw down with Robin Hood in a fight and she’s a courageous warrior which sounds like a swashbuckler, so most of her statistics lean into that-except for the noble-y bits. After that it’s a matter of which author and stories you’re reading-or watching as she’s quite popular in film adaptations-but in general she’s a good person with a position of some limited authority, disdaining the more criminal elements of Robin Hood’s crusade against the rich but ultimately supporting him and his band of Merry Men against the evils imposed by the Sheriff of Nottingham.ĭesign Notes: There’s not much to go on with Maid Marian, but with that independent streak and wilderness experience a little ranger is due. Like so many of the Merry Men her first meeting with Robin Hood begins with a fight because she’s disguised, ending when he loses and begs for mercy (at which point Marian recognizes who he is). Perhaps even it’s from another play but in any case, by the 1500s all that shepherd business was out the window and Maid Marian became a noblewoman (the only child of the Earl of Huntingdon), albeit not a terribly proper one.
Or maybe it’s a confusion bred by The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon and its real world parallels to Robert Hood of Wakefield (who married a woman named Matilda who, like the woman in the play, changes her name to Marian after marrying him). She’s not Robin’s first lover though-that’d be Clorinda, the Queen of the Shepherdesses-but over time the two characters become one in the same. Like Friar Tuck she gets into the mythology through the May Games (and may even have tried to solicit herself to him!), and it’s generally believed that France has more to do with her inclusion than anyone else does (in Le Jeu de Robin et Marion in 1283 there’s a shepherdess named Marion and she’s got a shepherd lover named Robin). Though she doesn’t appear in his earliest tales, Robin Hood’s paramour became a part of the legend by at least 1600. Among the Merry Men Maid Marian was respected for her courage, independence, and loyalty-one of English literature’s earliest positive portrayals of a strong female character.
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