Doing this kind of exercise with long-running characters can be an interesting challenge, because it’s tough to really identify what makes the character the character to everyone. And sometimes it’s really easy because Disney makes a billion dollars selling pictures of his butt.

This whole thing would be way easier if I was willing to go all-spoilers, but the builds wouldn’t be that different. I just would be making funnier jokes.

I like Jujutsu Kaisen but I don’t like how it went. Not because the story is bad, per se, but because the things that it wanted to focus on weren’t as cool to me as the things they were doing before that focus happened. Nonetheless, it’s a banger of a show and it has some great character designs, such as today’s subject.

In 2021, a manga was started that decided to cast Tokiyuki Hojo as a twelve year old boy talented in avoiding problems, and it kicks ass. Today, I want to address the question, then, of how we make that Tokiyuki Hojo in 4th edition D&D, and then I’m going to be mad at myself for how hard I made this.

What’s the neutral normal to start from, and also, what powers and options make the most interesting character to actually get to inhabit and play in a campaign? Take one of the show’s fairly static nothing characters, and then consider the ways to represent what that character is in a broader mechanical framework.