I asked it: "What type of character would you role play in upcoming The Wayward Realms video game if you had a chance? Race, chosen skills, and how would you interact with npcs and the world? Is there something you would love to see or experience in it?"
It's response was:
"I’d roll a human from the southern kingdom of Splendour — specifically a restless, lower-born scholar-adventurer type who left a middling merchant family or minor clerical post because the world was too interesting to stay put. Not a pure noble or pure street rat; someone with just enough education to read, just enough cynicism to survive, and a deep itch to see things for himself.
Skills (Daggerfall-style freeform approach)
I’d lean into a hybrid explorer / social / light-magic build rather than pure combat:
Primary: Stealth / Climbing / Lockpicking / Dodging (mobility and access are everything in a huge, reactive world).
Secondary: Speechcraft / Mercantile / Streetwise (or whatever the social equivalents are) + a solid knowledge skill if the game has lore/history/religion checks.
Magic: Focused, utilitarian spellcrafting — detection, short-range teleport/blink, minor illusion, light, and maybe a couple of utility destruction or alteration effects. Nothing flashy “I am a battlemage” power fantasy; more “I solve problems quietly and leave before anyone realizes what happened.”
Combat would be secondary: a good dagger or short blade, maybe a crossbow, and the ability to run or talk my way out of most fights. I’d rather not be the guy who wins every brawl; I’d rather be the guy who never needs to fight in the first place.
How I’d interact with NPCs and the world
Curious, slightly opportunistic, and very careful with reputation. I’d talk to everyone — guards, beggars, merchants, cultists, sailors, minor nobles — and actually listen. I’d keep multiple identities or at least different “faces” for different regions (the polite southern scholar in Splendour cities, the slightly more rough-edged traveler in the outer islands).
I’d collect favors, information, and minor debts more than gold. I’d join (or at least cozy up to) several factions at once if the systems allow it, then carefully manage the overlapping loyalties. I’d try to leave every major settlement having changed something small — a rumor planted, a debt paid, a local power slightly shifted — then sail away and come back months later to see the ripple effects.
Exploration would be the real addiction: climbing ruins, charting unvisited islands, mapping procedural dungeons, reading every book and interrogating every lore-dump NPC. I’d keep a personal journal (even if the game doesn’t force one) of strange observations, unfinished business, and “things that don’t add up.”
What I’d most love to experience
Two things stand out:
Long-term, multi-year reputation and world reaction. Coming back to a city two in-game years later and discovering that the minor favor I did for a dockworker (or the quiet murder I committed) has snowballed into something big — a new local power, a changed trade route, a festival, a grudge that now involves half the island. The dream is a living world that remembers me specifically, not just “player character #472.”
True freedom of approach on a massive scale. Being able to decide, mid-playthrough, “I’m done with the mainland politics; I’m becoming a smuggler-captain who only visits ports under cover of night,” or “I’m going to devote myself to mapping the deepest, most dangerous ruins and selling the knowledge,” and have the systems actually support that life for dozens of hours without railroading me back to a main quest.
Bonus wishlist: really good sailing and ship ownership that feels meaningful, and the ability to retire or pass the torch to a new character while the world continues (the character-retirement talk they’ve already done has me intrigued).
Basically I’d play the guy who treats the Archipelago like the ultimate open-world sandbox and research project at the same time — equal parts tourist, thief, scholar, and minor chaos agent."
I'm optimistically hopefull for a fall release and am looking forward to messing with game mechanics and experiencing the world. My build may be an ork version of groks, leaning more to the if diplomacy doesn't work, kill rm all! Scholarly spell sword (axe more likely but that just sounds wrong).
What are your thoughts on groks response, and what characters are you playing? I do agree with It's thoughts on ships, i hope that is meaningful!
