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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6402604" data-attributes="member: 8835">I've never read any Flash comics, but I did watch a good chunk of the Justice League cartoon.  In there, they seemed to protray the Flash as a bit to quick to react.  Basically he'd act before thinking (because he's so quick), and that would get him in trouble.Was that ever a trait in the Silver Age?From a player's perspective, I've played one or two PCs that were deliberately flawed, angsty or dark.  But I wouldn't say they were unstable personalities.  Merely that I made them to have a flaw that might come up in play (ex. quick to anger).  For me, the point was to have a character that WAS different from my other characters.  I don't want to play a new version of the same character from the last campaign.  So playing a flawed character was just one variable I tried on a few PCs, though I tried to make the flaw different in those cases.From a practical standpoint of game play, I am wary of making a truly flawed or debilitated character.  Part of that is my own mindset.  I am better at nearly every thing than somebody who sucks at a given thing.  Except Horse Shoes.  I suck at that.  So even in Brain Surgery, where I have zero training or experience, I am probably better at it than a guy who totally sucks at it because I have pretty good hand-eye coordination and a really good ability to visualize and learn things.  Note: see a real doctor before letting me do Brain Surgery on you, but if it's the Zombie Apocalypse and you have a bullet lodged in your noggin, let me get it out, not Bubba. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />This mindset (and skillset) come into play with my characters.  That doesn't mean my PC is going to be awesome at spell casting and weapons and thus my Wizard will outshine the Fighter, but it does mean that I will find a way that my lack of skills in an area won't be a problem.The point then, is that I agree with Celebrim.  I don't need to make a flawed or sucky character.  Personality or ability-wise.  In fact, that gets old.  I'd rather make an effective character (though I'm not a Char Ops guy) and make sure he has an interesting personality thats different from the other PCs I've played.</blockquote>

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