Make a jock dudebro Monk. Instead of spiritual balance, he's all about physical perfection and lifting heavy things. Total Chad/chud. Buff, loves red meat and raw eggs, loves flexing for pretty ladies, punches things so hard they explode.
I've already got one I main: A female hospitalor paladin, beefy and stronk, but with the personality of a trad wife and voice of a moe girl. Her faith is aligned with the combined teachings of Goddess of the Sun and God of the Moon, and values true love, loyalty, and kindness. Those that abuse said values for "fun" or other reasons that cannot be reconciled are quickly smitten by her holy blade.
I used to do something about as autistic for games I GM'ed. I wrote character generators in BASIC for the game and then spat out dozens of sets of stats for them, and then put them on index cards similarly with a brief description like goals/motives/personality/notable weapons/magic items, then organized them in little index card boxes with tabs specifying type of character/where they are/etc. so if people were in city X and ran into a rogue, I could just pull out a character with some features other than "rogue from city X."
Straight white human male, brown hair, green eyes, Paladin of the local Lawful Good deity. Righteous, compassionate, charismatic. Always attempting to get other people to improve by his words and his deeds. Vanquishes unequivocal evil on the spot and doesn't allow himself to fall into obvious Evil ploys.
Elf Barbarian. Forests aren't the safest places to live IRL, and that goes treble in D&D where being attacked by wolves is almost certainly the least dangerous encounter you can have. So I'd have them be someone who just went "Fuck it" and stripped down to their undies, grabbed some axes, and embarked on a do-or-die quest against everything nature could throw at them. Unironic murderhobo and completely devoted to Total Predator Death because he's sick and tired of all these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane of existence.
Aren't Druids not just neutral but aggressively neutral and outright refuse to take any position on good and evil because they're about balance? I'm out of touch with 5e enough I actually don't know, but the original Druid character was an alignment called True Neutral which was defined by willingness to disregard law, chaos, good and evil in favor of balance, so if one side was becoming too powerful, they'd oppose it, being more concerned with some sort of global ecosystem rather than any individual (including themselves).
Pathfinder 1E has the brawler, which is custom-designed for this kind of hilarity. You can build Marv (from Sin City) using that class.
Hence my post about Druids, who would support even orcs if it meant the balance prevailed. True Neutral not only doesn't care about your struggle, it actively fights for NEITHER side winning, whether it's law/chaos or good/evil.
Like others said, I just wing it. Have guys run away if combat is starting to drag and PCs have the upper hand. Have them fight to the death if the pace is going well.
Starfinder is such a cool setting that nobody wants to play.
Something homebrew. WotC seems to have an autistic obsession with controlling what people can and can't do at the table. Homebrew is the opposite of that.
I really liked The God Machine. While it wasn't as rules heavy as I'd like, it was solid as an idea factory. I remember a bunch of one paragraph examples of people turning away from the God Machine that was basically a list of adventure hooks. I think it could make a good twist in a spy game. It would start off like Person of Interest and then become The God Machine.
Okay, since I can't stop coming up with ideas once my neurons get activated, my latest one was some sort of detective, probably using the Rogue class given the similarities in skill set. Someone who believes heavily in law and order, and that boundaries and responsible behavior are all that separate man from beast. Someone with a strong moral code who will refuse to engage in illicit acts to catch criminals, even when threatened or brow-beaten by his social betters into doing so.
I have a soft spot for Starfinder. It's one of the few RPGs I actually spent money on for physical books. It's somewhat cheap with the core rules and monster book being a cheap paperbacks. So yeah, while the game itself has some serious issues, you can get all the books you need for <£40, compared to DnD needing* three £50 manuals, and it's widely available, which can't be said for Savage Worlds.
Pretty much almost every TRPG group I've been in has had woman. Both from the perspective of me as a GM and me as another player. Never had a single problem. Of course, almost everyone that I have played with in either role have actually been co-workers (or former co-workers as people switched jobs) as we would play after the work day most of the time. So in all cases we had worked together in a professional capacity and so there was already a good feeling about who would be invited in or not to the games based on their work behavior.
