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Friday, October 14, 2022

Farscape as DnD Group

Farscape has so many Dungeons and Dragons influences  


John is a fighter (touches of paladin?)

D’argo is a barbarian. 

Aeryn a fighter for sure, maybe assassin, too? 

Chiana is a fast talking, twitchy, thief

Zhaan, our blue hippie babe, definitely a caster… maybe magic user, maybe cleric. Both?

Stark is a cleric. Been a while… doesn’t he specifically heal with those yellow glowy powers?

Utu-Noranti Pralatong, the old witch is a… well, an old witch. 

And there was a minicomic, really? 


EDIT Feb 2024: Well this is fun, I just googled farscape dnd and found a bunch of ppl had this idea also. I remember thinking this way way back when I was watching the original show run on TV. Fun to see which ones lined up with my ideas... many are are the same, many are not. Seems like John Crichton as a fighter (or Paladin) is pretty common. Thief for Chiana is common. But one guy was saying D'argo was a dwarf style player... interesting. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/4e0994/farscape_all_the_characters_are_classic_dnd/

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/farscape-d-d-borrowing-ideas.311807/

Oh check this out from wikip:

As a Pa'u, Zhaan's spiritual abilities significantly improve upon achieving a new level. When first introduced, Zhaan is a level nine Pa'u, with the ability to lessen the pain of others by taking some portion of it into herself. Later in the series with Crichton's help, she gains a level, becoming a level ten Pa'u and gaining the ability to protect others from psychic attack with her own mind. In the episode "Bone to Be Wild" she shows that for short periods of time she can make herself invisible, although it is not stated whether or not this is only possible when surrounded by foliage.

Zhaan is also the same actress in MadMax 2 (the Road Warrior), the one with the gasoline schoolbus thing. She was the pretty lady with the giant 1980s shoulderpads (OK football shoulder pads, of course they'd do it right in madmax). 



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