Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30542316-20170522204707/@comment-26517929-20170526002540

I will say what I said from the last time we had this conversation.

You can make as many 1-A's or other Tier 1's as you want. Heck, regardless of what others say I have lots of them and will continue to have them. Now sad part is I haven't posted a story here. So, my characters at the moment have very short descriptions, shorter than what I like. (Actually working on fixing that now, it's just that editing a ton of stuff at once is kinda tiresome).

Regardless, the point is that you have creative freedom. However, when every character you make is a Tier 1, there's a problem. I have 2 verses out of like 9 filled with tier 1's. Everything else is tier 2 and below. I've reserved 2 verses that I can just go balls to the wall nuts when it came to power. However, I also value characters when it comes to my works. Good characters can carry a story. Great characters can make everything irrelevant. I don't hear verses like SMT, Digimon or Masadaverse being called "Overpowered Pieces of Shit" for 2 very good reasons.

1) The characters are engaging and fun. They also tie you in and make you want. You could say "But this personality trope has been used to death". We it's not the trope you are looking for, it is how you use said trope and how you build upon it. No character is original contrary to popular believe. Nothing's original under the sun. Make the readers or players(in my case) want to see how the characters end up and interact. Personally, this is the most important thing to a series. Even moreso than plot.

2) The plot is engaging. The plot is still very important. However, you don't have to make the plot super complex. Even for a story with 1-A's the plot does not have to be the most complex of plots. For me a simple "Protect Existence" plot is enough. It's what happens in between the beginning and end that details a good plot.

What I'm saying is, you can make whatever you want. But this is not the way to go. Build up your characters. As I will be doing the same.