TriXteRPhillips
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The sentence in question's subject is "he", meaning TriXteRPhillips, the verb is "aid" and the direct object is "this ninth-grade dropout turned part-time English student", which is also supposed to be TriXteRPhillips. But even if you fixed that- I'm assuming by making yourself the passive object of your role-playing skills- it doesn't flow.
Just my opinion as someone who writes and plays tabletop RPGs.
Truth be told, you're talking above my paygrade here.... I understand a little about verb objects, but nothing much as it relates to direct and passive verb objects. Though, your explination does seem to make sense. It has always felt crowded and clunky to me. And given what you say, it's also seems to lack clarity. I take it the use of the same person as the sentence subject and verb object is why you said it sounds like the sentence refers to two indiduals.
To make sure I get your gist of what you mean by changing it to a passive object and how it would still lack flow with that change, I made a minor edit. Did I correctly change the verb object from direct to passive?
"He utilizes skills enhanced playing tabletop roleplaying games to aid himself as a ninth-grade dropout turned part-time English student transition to novice writer."