I've done too many of these. I tend to fall on 1 often though.

Awful little creature reporting for duty

Awful little creatures make the most fun characters by *far* regardless of game or setting.

Missing: - god-like powerful magical being, masquerading as Just Some Dude - Most boring, generic build available in the system, played ironically

Haha, yeah, the fact that I played almost exclusively women and my few masculine characters still often had more feminine features and mannerisms was totally just to challenge myself. Never a subconscious exploration of my deepest desires. Says the now VERY out and proud about it transwoman.

one time my buddy was running a game of Monster of the Week and I came up with the most mundane character possible: a Wisconsin corn farmer named Pete Faber, competing with angels, demons, and the miscellaneous supernatural

"Okay, tell us about your character." "Hm? Oh... human fighter." "That's it?" "Mm-hm."

Also missing: pure random-roll character who makes no sense and contributes nothing other than needing to be rescued a lot.

And the corollary, overbuilt min-max character based completely on researching the meta for hours but only rolls good at things they're not built to do

6 sessions in and no one has identified/mentioned the person my character is based on, probably because I'm not good enough at doing a Rodney Dangerfield voice

I have done all of these except 13

Sounds like he could be the next Ash Williams who works on over in housewares at S-Mart!

No respect. I tell ya!

My sister always picked those lol just troublemaking groblins

I always do “every non-combat skill, useless in combat”, which is absolutely infuriating with beginner DMs because all they prepared is combat encounters and I have nothing to do Look, if I wanted to fight, I’d go play a video game. I’m here for the part video games *cannot* give me, and that’s talking to a real person and coming up with rube-goldberg solutions to solve problems without shedding blood

haha that's cool [and I'm not a furry](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday)

Sure but what's your TTRPG character?

I actually like point-buy systems where you get better at what you actually use (like in Morrowind). I start at average values in everything and see where the story takes my character.

"What do they look like?" "Middle sliders on the character creator." "Any motivations?" "Do quests to earn money." "How about a backstory?" "Did quests and earned money."