When you take on the mantle of player, as opposed to GM, and the GM declares the type of game and asks you to make a character, what do you think of? The story of your character, or the in-game effects playing a specific type of character might benefit from.
We all want our characters to be in-game avatars of what we imagine, often we have to interpret the rules and craft our characters to be what we want them to be. If I am playing a bad-ass swordsman, I should be able to craft that.
But, when you think about the character, do you think of the game setting or the rules first?
Does your desire to play an elf have to do with your love of elven culture, or the bonuses they get?
Do you want to play Batman because he is the best at everything, or because you dig his backstory.
If someone said you could play any established character in one of the Big Two superheroic universes, who would you pick and why. I know who I would pick, and I have an idea what they should be able to within the structure of the game mechanics, but my reasons for playing them have little to do with their incredible abilities.
PLANET ZEIST 