Robert Woodward wrote:
I have seen James Nicoll use this phrase and it just showed up in Girl
Genius (https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20240417). Who invented it?
Is it a DnD thing, perchance?
Shakespeare's been my own thing as of late. On its surface,
"Murder Hoboes" seems vile enough to qualify as Hamletonian.
Hamlet characters in DnD
So I was making a character based on Horatio living in the
aftermath of the tragedy, and it got me thinking about the
different characters in Hamlet and how they could be
described in DnD terms.
Horatio - wizard or cleric. Wise, loyal and scholarly.
Either an elf or a half elf, to put emphasis on the
“outliving everyone” part
Hamlet - Human rogue. Nat 20 sneak attack with Assassinate
through a curtain. Nuff said.
Ophelia - Eladrin elf Druid. There is no quick and tragic
spiral into madness quite like one accelerated by the rage
of nature and the seasons themselves. Also, Druidic wisdom
that persisted even in insanity - the flowers Ophelia was
handing out in that one scene mean specific things in flower
language (eg the ones she gave to Gertrude mean infidelity)
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Francis Bacon used Shakespeare as a nom de plume. HAMLET by BACON. Get
it? Bacon could never pass up a jest. [1]
Note.
[1] <
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1625jonson-bacon.asp>
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