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More inadvisable Dungeons & Dragons characters, grifters edition:
A fighter who makes a habit of escaping debts by faking their own heroic death, counting on their extraordinary resilience to let them sneakily walk away from fates that “everybody knows” they couldn’t possibly have survived. So far they’ve given their life 17 times; one town even put up a statue.

A wizard who’s perfectly capable of performing all the magical feats they claim to be able to do, but cheats people anyway using a combination of stage magic and simple pyrotechnics because they believe casting real magic spells in exchange for money diminishes the dignity of the craft.

A rogue who commits logistically improbable acts of thievery, then poses as a private investigator and offers to “solve” their own crimes. The evidence they gather convincingly points to some unpopular member of the town’s upper crust, whose protestations of innocence typically fall on deaf ears.

A cleric who claims to be a priest of a different god in every village they visit. It’s probably not a profit-making scam, since they don’t take payment or solicit donations unless doing so would be in character for whatever priesthood they’re impersonating this week, but they’re clearly up to something.
So casting spells for money is “diminishing the dignity of the craft”, but scamming people out of money with fake magic isn’t?
Wizards receive the ability to turn everything they touch into a travesty at first level.