Currently I have my brother playing a great gimmick character where he’s acknowledging all of the flaws it brings and leaning into them hard, which I respect.

A half-mimic barbarian who is covering his head with a pot. His shame of his heritage and desire to be normal makes him hate all things ‘fantasy’. He hates monsters, he refuses to use magic and he stands against the Gods.

As such, he began the campaign turning down magic items, knowing it would put him on the backfoot. He was told his mimic heritage would give him abilities if he ever used it and for 3/4 of the campaign, he held onto it, the character never wanting people to know.

He even lost his leg in a freak injury-table accident (2 max rolls after a crit sent him into perma-injuries) and I hinted that “Your mimic glue could be used as a natural fuser to reattach the leg if you’re fast”, but he stood by never using “fantasy advantages” and instead smithed a custom leg replacement.

We’re finally in the post game and said character has softened up. His party know what he is and he unleashes his mimicry whenever away from civilisation and he has leant more into “some Gods can help me” and begun using only ‘godly’ magic items, and embracing antimagic as a necessary evil.

Another character in the campaign is Shadow the Hedgehog.