I would prefer playing with D&D 5e since I've been mostly playing it in the past 2 years as a player and DM. 

For a brief character idea that I currently have in mind, 
Caeda Bryberos, a adamant and headstrong female half-elf who is an only child in the noble family of Bryberos. Spent most of her life in a city mainly of elves, half elves, and minority being humans. Her human mother Eleanor was said to have passed away from a severe sickness when she was about 3 years old, to this current day, she refuses to believe her death or visit her grave as it eventually leads her to think of her own mortality not being good enough as simply being a half elf and not being a pure elf than the elves whose life and culture she idealizes since youth. This is seen most with her elven father, the Baron Erlan Bryberos, she idealizes him the most from his many stories of grand adventures. It was from these stories that she decided to become part of the city guard as a way to train and prepare to join her father. She does not have any specific hate on her mother as she has been told of her being very caring when Caeda was young, but when she often compares herself to her father, Caeda wishes to follow in her father's path, but feels she would be unable to meet such expectations, especially with the centuries of experience her father has gained. 

But the day eventually arrived when two soldiers knocked at Bryberos estate home to inform her of her father's death during a battle and could only give her father remaining equipment as the body could not be recovered. Just like her mother, Caeda was in denial of her father's death, she didn't attend attend her father's funeral and would end or leave conversations that were to bring him up. The most she would endure would be accepting the baroness title as the heir to the Bryberos family and land which it holds. One day, she decided to at least move and organize her father's equipment herslef from his hall of trophies to his room. It was then that when she went to grasped her father's prized adamantium gauntlet, that she felt this strange sense to wear it. This was a magical item that Erlan found during the beginnings of his adventure and said to have almost always wear it. Once it was don, she could feel its magic and grabbed the nearest weapon to do a few practice swings to feel it, only to feel the blade to suddenly become enchanted by gauntlet. After having that bit of fun, she was reminded more about her father and tried to remove the gauntlet, only to feel her being being pulled as well. A faint sense then told her of a vague direction to travel, she was not compelled to go there, but it was a lingering sensation that would remain even after another forced removal of the gauntlet. She gave this feeling a few days to pass over until she eventually decided to investigate what ever this direction may lead her towards.

So what do you think? Mechanically I'm planning for a lv 1 half elf hexblade warlock with the gauntlet powering the blades that she comes in contact with. I also chose the city watch background as that felt the closet to a guard in a city. Also how would you like us to decide ability scores?