[@whizzball1]

	No one is going to dispute the fact that more freedom means more possibilities. The problem is people tend to use that freedom to take shortcuts instead of making something more unique and interesting. It forces you to think harder in order to make your character stand out. I know weaponised hair isn't uncommon in anime. But how many times have you seen people burned with such a weapon? Same with my fire character. you would think that my original character would have more abilities, but there was virtually no difference between the fire one and the hot and cold one. While thinking of the character as a duel elemental build definitely made the fire character more interesting, the fire character feels like they would fit better into a roleplay.

	In fact, I joined another magical girl RP a few months ago. It had a CYOA system in place, so you basically rolled for a bunch of powers. It would have been acceptable to just make the character a pirate-griffen-chimera, but I restricted myself to only using pirate attributes again. Her wings were converted into sails, she used a ship cannon as a weapon to utilize her high strength and dexterity scores, etc. I feel my self imposed limitations made my character more interesting.

	You should definitely let your imagination run wild. think of powers and atributes for your characters that don't make sense or wouldn't be allowed. But then challenge yourself to refine their attributes until they make sense in the setting. That works for anything from powers to backstory. Wanna do something with robots in a medieval RP? Use golums instead. Want to use magic in a strongly science fiction setting? Bust out those nannomachines that can act as fireballs and wizzard spells. 

	I agree with your comment earlier about what-ifs and hypothetical. Topics like this tend to become huge think tanks, and I'm more about seeing things in practice. How about you make a crazy RP character for an rp. link me to the RP, and then create a wild character (in this topic) that you would make without limits. Give them a dragon tail, cyborg augmentation, waifu-level deity that watches over them, and a really, really crazy backstory if you want. Do whatever. It does have to be something you find interesting, that's the only catch. Then I'll make a character that recaptures what you made in a unified theme, and we can discuss the two characters.