u/PrometheanPolymath

This is my OC Gimble Zagnut. They are a little alien, and they and their friends go on lots of adventures. At times, they have a backstory with a unique home-world and a story of becoming trapped on Earth; at other times, their world is just a copy of Earth.

Whether they are playing an Earth TTRPG or their own equivalent, either a pastiche of ours or their own design, it seems like the kind of thing they would enjoy. So I experimented with variations on how they might approach such a game.

Each has a specialty neurotype. Gimble's is emotion, introspection, and intrapersonality. This led me to assume they'd play a support class, a healer. Cleric made the most sense. AI seemed to agree when it suggested ideas for all of them.

Their original game was called Jungles and Jabberwocks, and Gimble played a Human Life Cleric named Alaric Thorn. But I gave AI (I forget which model) a challenge: pull from any fantasy RPG setting, tabletop or computer. Mix and match settings and systems. If I'm creating my own system, go nuts. This is its suggestions for Gimble, based on a more detailed character description I gave it.

>Plays an Empath-Cleric — not a war priest but a confessor and grief-worker. Heals through understanding what specifically hurts rather than generic restoration spells. Worships a deity of memory and feeling rather than light or justice. Probably draws from Numenera's "feels" system and Ironsworn's bonds mechanic more than D&D hit points. Their character has no offensive spells at all — a choice that makes other players uncomfortable in exactly the way Gimble finds interesting. Carries a journal that is also a spellbook. The character's "damage" is crying in a way that makes enemies reconsider.

>Plays a Tiefling, but not for the edginess — for the experience of being visibly marked as other and having to develop extraordinary emotional intelligence as a survival skill. The tiefling’s inherited stigma maps directly onto Gimble’s interest in shame, identity, and the gap between inner life and outward perception. Might alternatively play an Empath from Numenera — a human variant whose mutation is feeling others’ pain literally.

If anyone finds this interesting, I can certainly share more ideas from the other 15 members of their group! Got a handful of druids/rangers/witches, and expanding on the others might be fun, too!